IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 106 7BRA
Held at: Women's Library
Title: BRACKENBURY, Georgina (1865-1949): Metropolitan Police Notice
Date(s): 1908
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.5 A box (1 folder)
Name of creator(s): Metropolitan Police
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Georgina Agnes Brackenbury (1865-1949) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1888-1900. She was a member of both the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and the Women's Social and Political Union. She was arrested in Feb 1908, after taking part in a raid on the House of Commons and was sentenced to six weeks in Holloway Prison. After her release, she continued in militant suffrage activities and was imprisoned for a month in 1912 for smashing windows. She was the daughter of Hilda Brackenbury (1832-1918) and sister of Mary Brackenbury (1866-1946), who were both also involved in militant suffrage activity.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
The archive consists of a Metropolitan Police notice, 1908, binding over Georgina Brackenbury to appear at court to answer the charge of 'using insulting behaviour and resisting Police' at Old Palace Yard.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
This collection is available for consultation. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Finding aids:
Collection level description available on-line on the Women's Library website
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Found among the pamphlet collection and transferred to the archives by Miss M Surry, the Librarian, Sep 1974. Rediscovered amongst 'unsorted archival miscellany' during the move of the Library, 2002, and formally accessioned, July 2003.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
A portrait in oil by Georgina Brackenbury of Emmeline Pankhurst, 1927, is held by the National Portrait Gallery.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: 08/02/2008