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Motion · S6M-12068 · 2 Feb 2024

Glasgow Women’s Library Displays Suffragette Hunger Strike Medal

Lodged by Kaukab Stewart Standard Motion 19 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament congratulates the Glasgow Women’s Library on its latest display, showcasing a suffragette hunger strike medal; understands that the exhibition, named We Deserve a Medal: Militant Suffrage Activism, will showcase the medal awarded to the first suffragette to go on hunger strike in Scotland; further understands that the museum successfully bid for Maud Joachim’s medal, which hangs on a length of ribbon in the colours of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), after more than 500 people donated to a crowdfunding appeal that raised £28,500; notes that Maud was arrested in Dundee in October 1909, along with Adela Pankhurst, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, and four others for interrupting a meeting led by Winston Churchill; understands that this exhibition will also include medals awarded to Glasgow sisters, Frances and Margaret McPhun, who were jailed for smashing windows in London in 1912 as part of the suffrage movement; further understands that the exhibition opened on 1 February 2024, and will run at the Glasgow Women’s Library until 31 May 2024, and wishes it all the best with this exhibition.

Supporters (19)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.