Suffragette suffragettes chaining themselves to railings, setting fire to post box contents, smashing windows and eventually detonating bombs. Some radical techniques used by the suffragettes were learned from Russian exiles from tsarism who had escaped to England. In 1914, at least seven churches were bombed or set on fire across the United Kingdom, including Westminster Abbey, where an explosion aimed at destroying the 700-year-old Coronation Chair, only caused minor damage. One suffragette, Emily Davison, died under the King's horse, Anmer, at The Derby on 4 June 1913. It is debated whether she was trying to pull down the horse, attach a
The Suffragette Oak The Suffragette Oak The Suffragette Oak is a sessile oak tree (Quercus petraea) in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow, Scotland that was named Scotland's Tree of the Year in 2015. The tree was planted in Kelvingrove Park by suffrage organisations on 20 April 1918 to commemorate women being granted the right to vote in February 1918. In 2015 it was named Scotland's Tree of the Year by the Woodland Trust after being nominated by Glasgow Women's Library. The award was presented to representatives from the Glasgow Women's Library at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on 27 October 2015. Other 2015 nominees