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Rowland Kenney (1882-1961) was the seventh son of Horatio Nelson Kenney and Ann Woolf. Rowland started work in the cotton mills, like his sisters; work which he loathed. Influenced by Robert Blatchford’s writing in the Clarion, the famous socialist…

This is a 1933 photograph of Annie Kenney, her husband James 'Jim' Taylor (1874-1977), and her sister Nell Kenney outside Annie and Jim's family home in Letchworth. Annie and Jim married in 1920 after Annie stepped away from politics and moved to…

A photograph of Annie Kenney (right) and Jessie Kenney, her younger sister (left). Reverse of photo reads in manuscript: 'sweet little sisters'.

Annie Kenney gave birth to her some Warwick Kenney-Taylor on 4 February 1921 at 3.20 am. Warwick was her and James Taylor's only son. He became an engineer and served in the Fleet Air Arm during World War II, where his duties included air support of…

Photograph of Batheaston from Hampton Rocks.

Note on the back reads: “Two [. . .] [. . .], the lower one over Eagle House, Northend, Batheaston, and the upper one over the top of the poplar tree, that was planted at the top of our garden by my…

Box of visiting cards, collected during Jessie Kenney’s trip to Russia in 1917. She was sent as a companion to Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, who undertook the journey as a political mission on behalf of the British government to convince Russian women to…

Jessie Kenney (1887-1985) received a Certificate of Service for her work as a Deputy Master of the Rosicrucian Order's Francis Bacon Chapter (London) for the period 20 March 1957-20 March 1958. In the following years she began to write a history of…

Commemorative plaque unveiled in Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1960 to honour Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney for their contribution to the suffragette movement.

The tablet reads: “At an election meeting in the Old Free Trade Hall on…

Prime Minister Lloyd George (1863-1945) and suffragette leader Flora Drummond (1878-1949) greet women munition factory workers in Manchester in September 1918. Drummond, an organiser for the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), was imprisoned…

After the end of WWI, Jessie Kenney (1887-1985) decided to train as a Marine Radio Officer. This photo captures her during her course at the Marconi School. She received her Certificate of Proficiency in Radiotelegraphy in 1923, but was not allowed…

Marie Brackenbury (1866-1950) pictured during her imprisonment in Holloway. Brackenbury studied at the Slade Art School and became a talented landscape painter. A member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) she joined the…

Portrait of Mary Blathwayt with her brother, William, and her mother, Mrs. Linley Blathwayt, outside their family home in Batheaston in September 1929.

The Blathwayt family grew close to Annie Kenney as Mary took on a central role with the WSPU,…