My new book has been garnering some interest out in the real world.
I was invited to talk about the book – and other things – on the Standard Issue Podcast. My interviewer, Hannah Dunleavy, had taken the trouble to study the book and select from it a few ‘suffrage objects’ for further discussion. And so, among other things, we talked about taking suffrage to Orkney in the early 1870s (Object 4) and Object 56 – May Billinghurst’s ‘Velociman’, the invalid’ tricycle that allowed her freedom to break the law c 1913. And generally roamed around the suffrage story. It’s such a pleasure to chat with an engaging interviewer who grasps the breadth of the subject.
This month’s issue of History Today devotes a whole page to the book. As a dealer, several boards of Pank–a-Squith passed through my hands – but only one set of the little metal figures of the suffragettes that act as counters. Pank-a-Squith appears as one of the ‘Suffrage Games’ I discuss under ‘Object 51’.
An article in The Antiques Trade Gazette discussed not only The British Women’s Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects – but also the trade in the objects.
For details of the book see Bloomsbury or Blackwells or Amazon – or order it from your favourite bookshop
Woman and her Sphere 