There’s a house not all that far from where I live called Eagle House. It’s in the village of Batheaston, just outside Bath. And it has a very special place in history because this house gave wings to the suffragette movement. It belonged to the Bathwayt family and was a useful base for organising campaigns throughout the South West as well as a sanctuary for suffragettes who’d suffered in prison. All kinds of female suffrage campaigners were welcome there: militant women, non-militant women, upper-class women, working-class women, openly gay women and so on...

If you'd like to support my work by becoming a subscriber on Patreon, you can also access an episode where I talk about Linley Blathwayt, the servants of Eagle House and the fate of Eagle House's arboretum. There's also a subscribers-only episode about the suffragettes Edy Craig and Christopher Marie St John.

Sources: The Women's Suffrage Movement by Elizabeth Crawford; A Nest of Suffragettes in Somerset by BM Willmott Dobbie; The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage edited by Krista Cowman; oxforddnb.com; death and probate records; spartacus-educational.com; Suffragettes in Bath: Activism in an Edwardian Arboretum by Cynthia Hammond with Dan Brown, Suffragettes in Bath: Activism in an Edwardian Arboretum by Cynthia Hammond with Dan Brown; bathintime.co.uk; suffragettestories.omeka.net.