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Heads up about an interesting (if small) exhibition in the foyer at The Womens Library in Old Church St, Spitalfields. It's called 'Cycling to Suffrage', and covers the role of bikes in the lives of women generally, and the suffrage movement particularly during the cycling craze and the Edwardian era.
I attended a really good talk by the curator last week. Needless to say, the Clarion got several mentions. As did the subject of Rational Dress, which was a prominent Clarion concern.
I was interested to find that there were Suffrage Scouts, like the Clarion Scouts, who would ride out to various towns just outside the cities where they were based to distribute leaflets, parade in suffrage colours and hold political meetings. I would expect that a lot of the suffrage scouts were Clarion members as well.
Well worth a visit. And do remember to give a donation to TWL while you're there.