Florence Tunks
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Florence Olivia Tunks was a British suffragette, bookkeeper and nurse. She member of the Women's Social and Political Union who with Hilda Burkitt engaged in a campaign of arson in Suffolk in 1914 for
The Pavilion on Britannia Pier in Great Yarmouth before and after the arson attack in 1914
Evaline Hilda Burkitt
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Evaline Hilda Burkitt was a British suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union. A militant activist for women's rights, she went on hunger strike in prison and was the first suff
Florence Tunks
…19 July 1891 – 22 February 1985) was a British suffragette, bookkeeper and nurse. She member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) who with Hilda Burkitt engaged in a campaign of arson in Suffolk in 1914 for which they both received prison sentences. Tunks was born in Newport, Monmouthshire in 1891, the…
Winson Green Prison in the 1920s
Hilda Burkitt c.1905: the 2018 artwork was based on this photograph by her sister Ida Lillian Burkitt