This picture depicts Edith Garrud, a womens’ suffrage jiu-jitsu master. She trained up a 30-woman-strong bodyguard squad who guarded militant suffragist leader Emmeline Pankhurst in the 1910s. They fought police, broke windows, burnt buildings and bombed train stations, all to get the vote.*
And starting today, you can read about their adventures in a new comic series called Suffrajitsu. Thought some of you might want to know. : )
* = the arson, bombings, and other destruction was explicitly against property only; to my knowledge nobody was ever hurt in those actions
And starting today, you can read about their adventures in a new comic series called Suffrajitsu. Thought some of you might want to know. : )
* = the arson, bombings, and other destruction was explicitly against property only; to my knowledge nobody was ever hurt in those actions