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Arrest of Emily Wilding Davison

Great Britain · Politics / WPSU. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1906Date range
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Chronological records

1906

Emily Wilding Davison1906

Politics / WPSU

Goes on hunger strike in Strangeways Prison and is force-fed. Arrested and imprisoned for various offences, including a violent attack on a man she mistook for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George

Names involved

Emily Wilding Davison

Provenance

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