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Newscutting report on Census Evasion

1911

Museum of London

Museum of London
London, United Kingdom

Newcutting from the front page of the Daily Sketch 4th April 1911. The cutting shows a photograph of Suffragettes holding placards printed with the message 'No Vote no Census.' Above the photograph is the headline ' Women Suffragists Dodge the Census by Spending the Night in Caravans on Wimbledon Common', below is the caption 'On Wimbledon Common 2.30am before retiring'.
The article refers to the Census Resistance policy of militant suffragettes who took action on census night by staying away from their homes and thereby refused to be counted.

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