Hampstead

Hampstead was a hotbed of suffragette activity. There was a branch of the London National Society in the 1870s. A Hampsted society had been refounded by 1907, with Mrs John Osler and Mrs Beatrice Hartley as secretaries. This image shows Mrs Despard speaking to the Women's Freedom League at a garden fete in Hampstead in 1920. On May 11th 1917, an article was written in a newspaper - The Common Cause of Humanity - about the suffragette meetings being held at Hampstead Town Hall. This picture shows Hampstead Town Hall today.

The fact that other newspapers were writing about the suffreagetts and their actions shows that it was clearly a widely supported movement. Mr. J. L. Garvin, editor of 'The Observer' at the time supported the suffragette movement at Hampstead.