Miss Ethel Clarice Haslam

Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/ethel-haslam/oQHezR9Ul4tsgQ
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)

Additional Information: Ethel was secretary of the Ilford branch of the WSPU from summer 1909 until the war in 1914. She was also active in the Church League for Women's Suffrage (CLWS). In November 1909, Ethel went to the House of Commons as part of a deputation. She was arrested and released the next day. She was arrested and released without charge again for taking part in the 'Black Friday' demonstration in 1910, but was sentenced to two weeks in Holloway Prison for throwing a stone at politician John Burn's house a few days later. In 1911, she took part in the organised census boycott, encouraged by suffrage societies like the Women's Freedom League (WFL) and the WSPU. The goverment census survey took place every ten years (and still does) to gather population statistics and it is illegal not to fill it in. Ethel took part in the WSPU window-smashing campaign in 1912 and was sentenced to two months in prison, where she joined a hunger strike. In 1913, she was arrested and found guilty of fixing a flyer advertising the WSPU's self-denial week (a fund-raising event) to a letter box. She was prepared to serve her prison sentence but friends paid the fine instead.