"[W]hat's not widely known is that Scotland was a key battleground of the suffragette movement. Our cities were the scenes of demonstrations and violent protest. Politicians were attacked, buildings were set on fire. Women who'd been brought up to be second class citizens found themselves battling with the authorities, going on hunger strike and facing the dehumanisation of being force fed. They did it for the right to vote and Ethel Moorhead was just one of the many Scots women at the front of the campaign. But how did a beautiful and talented artist form a well-to-do family end up being held down and force fed in Edinburgh's Calton jail?"
Force-feeding

January 1, 1970

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