In December 2018 Lucy Neal and Shelley Castle took the train to Poland to gift seeds from the last remaining Suffragette Tree in Batheaston, UK to delegates at the COP24 climate talks. This was followed a week later by a night time Vigil at Rose’s tree back in the...
Ruth, Lucy and Anne-Marie talk about their radical ancestors and particular sources of inspiration from the suffragette movement.
The Blathwayt family created a place of recovery for over 60 women imprisoned for their political activism at their country residence Eagle House, in Batheaston.
Rose Lamartine Yates was an English social campaigner and suffragette. Together with her lawyer husband she worked for female suffrage from 1908 and during the First World War, and was willing to suffer arrest and incarceration for her beliefs.