![]() If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways: Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. But what does the evidence of the Bristol census schedules tell us now about the real extent of the boycott across the city? She even boated of a caravan, turned into an ‘ark of refuge from the flood of census questions’, driving over Clifton Suspension Bridge. Meanwhile in Bristol itself, Annie Kenney talked up the census boycott to the local press. Her evasion went up from the local enumerator, to the registrar and right up to the top Whitehall civil servant. She spent the night in a caravan somewhere near Salisbury Plain. The most daring evader in the Bristol region was Lillian Dove-Willcox, who headed south-west into rural Wiltshire. Back at Eagle House, her parents complied with the census ~ and her mother's diary is a rare account of a woman complier. Mary herself joined the mass evasion at Lansdown Crescent in Bath, organized by the WSPU. All three Blathwayts wrote daily diaries, offering a rare foot-soldiers’ view of census weekend. ![]() ![]() And just outside Bath in imposing Eagle House lived suffragette Mary Blathwayt and her parents. Bristol was the city where regional WSPU organizer Annie Kenney was based further out, the elegant spa towns of Baths and Cheltenham were suffrage strongholds. ![]()
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