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This page follows historian Dr. Sheila Hanlon's past and recent research projects. Her interests include Victorian and Edwardian cycling history and the WWI and WWII Women's Land Army, both in Canada and Britain.
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- Alice Hawkins: Leicester’s Working Class Suffragette Cyclist
- Flora Drummond: The Suffragette General
- Madame Sarah Grand: New Woman A-Wheel
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett: The Suffragist Cyclist
- Rosa May Billinghurst: Suffragette on Three Wheels
- The Countess of Warwick: A Society Cyclist
- The Pankhursts: Clarionettes and Suffragettes
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Alice Hawkins: Leicester’s Working Class Suffragette Cyclist
Image: Leicester Mercury, 2017 The story of women’s suffrage is often presented as set in London and exclusively driven by middle and upper class women. Activists like Alice Hawkins, founder of the Leicester Women’s Suffrage and Political Union, however, were … Continue reading
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Wheelwomen
An Index of Inspiring Lady Cyclists Wheelwomen features short profiles of the women who made cycling history. Many of these individuals appear on the margins of cycling history, but they deserve attention in their own right. The women profiled here were … Continue reading
