Wikipedia:GLAM/Protests and Suffragettes/Content

On this page you will find details of articles that we have created and improved or wish to do so.

Current Focus
We are currently working on improving the pages for the Scottish suffragettes in the Scotland's Suffragette Trumps deck of cards, with the aim of making them all at least B-class.

Articles started

 * Jamesina Anderson - Scottish politician, socialist, and advocate of the rights of working-class people, especially the elderly and children.
 * Janet Barrowman - a Scottish suffragette.
 * Mary Bell (politician) - One of Glasgow's first women Councillors
 * Margaret Menzies Campbell (née Shirlaw) - Scottish surgeon; niece of Marion Gilchrist; extensive writer of medical and dental history (with her husband John Menzies Campbell
 * Red Skirts on Clydeside - a film by the Sheffield Film Cooperative, exploring women's political participation in the 1915 Rent Strikes.
 * Elder Park, Govan
 * Ellison Scotland Gibb - Scottish suffragette and chess player.
 * Margaret Skirving Gibb - Scottish suffragette and chess player.
 * Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
 * Glasgow Women's Housing Association
 * Joan Lavender Bailie Guthrie or Laura Grey - a British suffragette, and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).
 * Holloway Jingles - a collection of poetry written by a group of suffragettes who were imprisoned in Holloway jail during 1912. It was published by the Glasgow branch of the Women's Social and Political Union.
 * Mary Jeff - Scottish activist and politician who was involved in the Glasgow rent strike.
 * Rose Kerrigan - a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain
 * Dr Alice McLaren - Scottish doctor, Gynecologist, suffragist and advocate for women's health and women's rights. She was the first woman medical practitioner in Glasgow.
 * Margaret Macgregor
 * Margaret McPhun - Scottish suffragette
 * Frances McPhun - Scottish suffragette
 * Northern Men's League for Women's Suffrage - an organisation which was active in Scotland during the later part of the campaign for women's suffrage. Founded by Maud Arncliffe Sennett
 * Orcadian Women's Suffrage Society
 * Dr Elizabeth Margaret Pace - Scottish doctor, suffragist and advocate for women's health and women's rights.
 * Grace Paterson campaigner, suffragist, temperance activist and educationalist
 * Lady Dinah Elizabeth Pearce - British philanthropist, notable for building The Pearce Institute in Govan for the benefit of the local community.
 * Violet Mary Craig Roberton One of Glasgow first women Councillors
 * South Govan Women's Housing Association
 * Sheffield Film Cooperative
 * Shetland Women's Suffrage Society
 * Mary Anderson Snodgrass One of Glasgow first women Councillors
 * The Women's Peace Crusade
 * WSPU Holloway Prisoners Banner - a suffragette banner designed by Scottish artist Ann Macbeth


 * Mary Barbour in Welsh. Thanks to Jason Evans for his work during our July 4, 2020 editathon.
 * Elder Park, Govan. Thanks to Lirazelf for her work during our July 4, 2020 editathon.

Improved

 * Mary Barbour
 * Helen Crawfurd
 * Charlotte Despard
 * Agnes Dollan
 * Gallery of Modern Art
 * Glasgow Society of Lady Artists
 * Glasgow Women's Housing Association
 * Eva Gore-Booth
 * Mary Laird
 * Bet Low
 * Ann Macbeth
 * Margaret Macgregor
 * Dinah Elizabeth Pearce
 * Ethel Snowden
 * Jessie Stephen
 * The Women's Peace Crusade
 * Isabella Elder
 * Dr Nora Wattie

Articles to be started

 * Miss Mary Burnet, Govan Parish Councillor and "one of Glasgow’s most widely known social workers and a staunch upholder of militant tactics" (from Forward, 1913)
 * Dr Helen McDougall, Doctor and X-Ray operator from Stornoway, Western Isles/Hebrides – a colleague of Dr Elsie Inglis who was imprisoned with Inglis during work with Scottish Women's Hospitals during WW1
 * Cottage Nurses Training Home
 * Glasgow Women’s Welfare and Advisory Clinic
 * Govan Pioneer - newspaper
 * Glasgow Council for Women’s Trades
 * Macgregor Memorial Church (new – or section within Margaret Macgregor's page)
 * Morris Hall, Govan
 * Fairfield Works Mission
 * Scottish Co-operative Women's Guild
 * West Govan Child Welfare Clinic - Opened 23rd November 1926. Mary Barbour in attendance and involved with setting up.
 * Glasgow Women's Welfare and Advisory Clinic - First family planning clinic in Scotland. Mary Barbour was the first chairman. Opened in Govan in 1926 and moved to central Glasgow in 1933.
 * Jessie Turnbull Thomson "Mrs Greig", the founding chair of GWSWSA
 * Scottish Council for Women's Trades
 * Helen Gault Glasgow Councillor
 * Kate Beaton (Politician) Glasgow Councillor
 * Laura Maclean Glasgow Councillor
 * Remember Mary Barbour Committee
 * Scottish Vigilance Association (AKA National Vigilance Association of Scotland)
 * Upper Clyde Shipbuilder’s Work-In (new article - currently a section of a larger article // section on 'Women in the UCS Work-In')
 * Pearce Institute
 * Nellie Hunter (née Galbraith), Secretary of the GWSWSA
 * Jessica Baird-Smith, one of Glasgow's first women Councillors
 * Jessie Fergusson

Items uploaded to Wikimedia Commons

 * A selection of video conferencing backgrounds on the theme of "We Can Edit" using original artwork by the Protests & Suffragettes team can be found on Wikimedia Commons