Scotland’s Suffragettes

It’s a 100th years since women got the vote in the UK and this afternoon I came across a remarkable exhibition and sculpture installations in Callander commemorating the event.
 
Organised by Callander & District Heritage Society as part of the Trossachs Summerfest it focused on the role women in Scotland played in the fight for the vote.
 
They were a feisty lot.
 
In 1908 Churchill hid in a shed in Dundee to avoid 27 national leaders of the women’s suffrage movement.
 
One of the most shocking postcards of the time (see extra photo) highlighted the kind of struggles women
went through.
 
In 1914 Fanny Parker was imprisoned in Perth and force fed orally and rectally.