Alice Davies was a British suffragette and nurse.
14 Facts About Alice Davies
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Alice Davies was imprisoned for protesting for women's right to vote by smashing windows, went on hunger strike and was awarded the Women's Social and Political Union Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour'.
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Alice Davies joined the Women's Social and Political Union to protest for women's right to vote.
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Alice Davies became the Liverpool WPSU Branch organiser from June 1910 to September 1912, trying to move the approach of the four branches in the area to holding more large indoor events and social functions, away from the frequent street meetings outside factories and smaller 'At Homes' in more affluent areas that were a feature before her.
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Alice Davies organised Holiday Campaigns' in the Lake District, and used Vida Goldstein and Beatrice Harraden, from the national movement to support this.
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In 1911, Alice Davies was writing to encourage local members to join a deputation to London to attempt to speak to Prime Minister Lloyd-George on 21 November.
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Alice Davies said at her trial that 'women were determined to fight for the same human rights enjoyed by men.
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Alice Davies's sentence was three months and she went on hunger strike.
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In recognition of Alice Davies suffering in prison, the WSPU awarded her a Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour' designed by Christabel Pankhurst, with the ribbon in the colours of the movement - green, white and purple, representing 'hope, purity and dignity' and dated 4 March 1912.
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One example of this that Alice Davies took part in Holloway Prison, was the creation by sixty-eight women of what became known as The Suffragette Handkerchief: secretly embroidering their name, initials or full signature on a common piece of cloth, right under the eyes of the prison wardresses, and smuggled out by Mary Ann Hilliard and now in The Priest House Museum, West Hoathly on display there and with similar items it can be viewed online.
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Alice Davies organised a visit by Emmeline Pankhurst to the Hardman Hall, which was written up in Votes for Women, February 2012.
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Dr Alice Ker spoke warmly of Davies, during their time in Holloway together, and Davies gave her an appropriate low key release 'welcome' and garden party, rather than the big public events for the release of Patricia Woodlock and others.
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Alice Davies became a Nursing Sister at Westminster, and served in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service but does not seem to appear in later key records of the suffragette or the women's rights movements.
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Alice Davies wrote to her nephew Frederick Lesley Stuart Davies, a private in the Army Cyclist Corps.