Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents 237
3. List of maps vii
4. List of figures viii
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. List of abbreviations xiii
7. Chronology xiv
8. Introduction 1
9. Part I Prelude: people and their politics
10. 1 Charlotte Despard and John Burns, the Colossus of Battersea 13
11. 2 Muriel Matters goes vanning it with Asquith 24
12. 3 Propaganda culture 36
13. 4 Parallel politics 48
14. Part II Narrative: October 1909 to April 1911
15. 5 Plotting across central London 63
16. 6 The battle for John Burns’s Battersea revisited 71
17. 7 The Census Bill and the boycott plan 78
18. 8 Lloyd George goes a-wooing versus Burns’s ‘vixens in velvet’ 86
19. 9 The King’s Speech 97
20. 10 Battleground for democracy 108
21. Part III Census night: places and spaces
22. 11 Emily Wilding Davison’s Westminster – and beyond 125
23. 12 The Nevinsons’ Hampstead – and central London entertainments 132
24. 13 Laurence Housman’s Kensington, with Clemence in Dorset 145
25. 14 Annie Kenney’s Bristol and Mary Blathwayt’s Bath 154
26. 15 Jessie Stephenson’s Manchester and Hannah Mitchell’s Oldham Road 169
27. 16 English journey 183
28. Part IV The census and beyond
29. 17 After census night 197
30. 18 Telling the story 209
31. 19 Sources and their analysis 219
32. Front matter
33. Contents 237
34. Introduction 239
35. Abbreviations 242
36. Key mass evasions 243
37. London boroughs and Middlesex 245
38. Midlands 300
39. Southern England 333
40. Northern England 342
41. Notes 363
42. Select bibliography 389
43. Index 395