Telegram on His Engagement to Clementine (in 1908) from a Manchester Suffragette - Media - International Churchill Society

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Telegram on His Engagement to Clementine (in 1908) from a Manchester Suffragette – Media

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The Reactionary

Radicalism and Reform

The bride, in the Daily Graphic, 12 September 1908

‘Je t’aime passionement – I feel less shy in French’: Clementine’s letter to Churchill after their engagement at Blenheim Palace, August 1908

‘To-day’s wedding’, Daily Graphic, 12 September 1908

Churchill’s voting card in the North West Manchester election, 1906

Police blockade a street in Tonypandy during the events of 1910–1911

Winston Churchill as a young politician (c.1905)

Winston Churchill’s address to the electors of North West Manchester, December 1906

The New Liberal

January 1, 1970

This telegram of “hearty congratulations” on his engagement to Clementine (in 1908) from an anonymous Manchester suffragette (sometimes attributed to Emmeline Pankhurst) plays on his words.

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