Capper?
Not you again.
This Day In Irish History tweetz:
This day 107 years ago – 18 July 1912 – suffragettes set fire to the Theatre Royal, Dublin, during a visit of British Prime Minister, H.H. Asquith.
For it, Mary Leigh and Gladys Evans were sentenced to five years’ penal servitude, though both were released after hunger striking.
Made their point and kept their figures.
Win win.
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“…though both were released after hunger striking.”
Only after they were force-fed for 58 days – which was a severe and torturous ordeal and was practiced in Britain on suffragettes from 1909.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/jul/06/suffragette-hunger-strike-protest
How much sympathy am I supposed to have for people who tried to burn down a building with people in it.
Ironically if they where treated equal to men they would have gotten harsher sentences, possibly shot even.(?)