图书馆短裤14/05/15 - Suffragettes和Satire：媒体中的女性运动员

经过Morag Greig.上2015年5月11日•（2）

一只手拿着一套鳞片的正义形象的印刷，另一只剑包裹在“饥饿罢工”之上包裹并在一堆书上休息。她是盲目的折叠和戴着帽子，用“女性的投票” Using library resources – books, digital newspaper archives, and items from the University of Glasgow’s Archives and Special Collections – this week’s Library Shorts talk will be exploring the contrast between the representation of the actions of the campaigners for women’s suffrage in the early 20th century by the mainstream media and by the suffragettes themselves. In particular, our speaker, Gemma Elliott, will be looking at the fascinating but unpublished memoir of Elizabeth Thomson; a suffragette, teacher, traveller and missionary who was jailed at the age of 65 for attempting to burn down the grandstand at Kelso racecourse. For more details of Gemma’s work seehttp://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/learning/hunterianassociates/suffrage%20fact%20and%20fiction/#d.en.401367。