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Mary Richardson, a Suffragette, slashed the Rokeby Venus painting at the National Gallery 100 years ago today.Read the stirring speech she gave at her trial, explaining her actions:View the whole newspaper pageManchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser – Friday 13 March 1914Image © Local World Limited. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.…

The fact that the green, purple and white colours of the Suffragette Movement are the same colours used by Wimbledon, has sometimes been commented upon.With this in mind, we thought we’d try and find some newspaper stories that bring together Wimbledon and the suffragettes.Oh, and we found some stories! We found two reports about an incident in 1913 when a suffragette attempted to burn down Wimbledon. One from the time, in the Derby Daily Telegraph, and another from fifteen…