The Militant Suffragettes as a Police Problem: London,1906–1914

Number of officers and population: Great Britain, Parliament, Parliamentary Papers (House of Commons), 1908, Vol. IX (Reports, vol. 4), sessional No. 353, 354, “Report from the Select Committee on the Police Forces (Weekly Day of Rest) together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes and Appendices” p. 26. Charing Cross: Great Britain, Parliament, Parliamentary Papers (House of Commons and Command), 1908, Vol. L (Reports, vol. 40), Cd. 4156, “Report of the Royal Commission upon the Duties of the Metropolitan Police together with Appendices”, Vol. I, p. 10. (Hereafter: Report on Police Duties).

Great Britain, Parliament, Parliamentary Papers (House of Commons and Command), 1908, Vol. LI (Reports, vol. 41), Cd. 3771, “Report of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis for the Year 1906,” p. 25.

Great Britain, Parliament, Parliamentary Debates (House of Commons), 5th ser., Vol. I, Feb. 16, 1909, col. 10.

Daily Chronicle, February 14, 1907.

Pall Mall Gazette, February 15, 1907.

Daily Chronicle, October 14, 1908.

The Treatment of the Women's Deputation by the Metropolitan Police: A Copy of Evidence collected by Dr. Jessie Murray and H. N. Brailsford, and forwarded to the Home Office by the Conciliation Committee for Women's Suffrage in support of its Demand for a Public Inquiry. (London: Women's Press, 1911), p. 8–9.

Troup to Gladstone, December 20, 1906. HO 45/10349/147337/2.

Times, November 25, 1910.

Troup to Henry, January 28, 1911; Henry to Troup, February 4, 1911: Both in MEPO 2/1438.

Times , July 14, 1909: Pankhurst Emmilee , My Own Story (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1914), pp. 149–151.

McKenna Stephen , Reginald McKenna, 1863–1943: A Memoir (London: Eyer and Spottiswoode, 1948), p. 157.

Standard, March 4, 1912.

Votes for Women, December 6, 1912.

Report on Police Duties, Vol. II, p. 9.

Standard, March 6 and 7, 1912.

Daily Mirror, May 1, 1913.

HO 45/107000/236973/16.

Superintendent Sutherland to Commissioner Henry, July 29 and October 4, 1913. MEPO 2/1560.

Commissioner Henry to Home Secretary McKenna, October 30, 1913. MEPO 2/1566.

These provisions became clear in the debate on the second reading: Parliamentary Debates (House of Commons), Vol. 51 (April 2, 1913), cols. 405 ff.

Pankhurst E. , My Own Story, pp. 308–309.

Pankhurst Christabel , Unshackled (London: Hutchinson, 1959), p. 253.