The Free Church Suffrage Times (newspaper)

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The Free Church Suffrage Times
CategoriesNewspaper
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherUnknown
Founded1913
First issue1 April 1913
Final issue
Number
77
CountryUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Based inLondon
LanguageEnglish

The Free Church Suffrage Times (FCST) was a British nonconformist Christian newspaper associated with the women's suffrage movement. [1] It also advocated for women's participation in the life and ministry of the nonconformist churches. It was succeeded by The Coming Day in 1916.

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History

The Free Church Suffrage Times was first issued in April 1913. [2] It was published in London. by an unknown publisher, [3] and was associated the nonconformist Christian Free Church League for Women's Suffrage. [2] [4]

The first editorial of the newspaper outlined the aims of the Free Church League for Women's Suffrage: [5]

"This league stands for the advocacy of the enfranchisement of women on the same basis that men are, or shall be enfranchised, believing the present system of government by one sex only to be un-Christian in principle, unjust in practice and indefensible from an economic or religious standpoint."

The Free Church Suffrage Times covered inter-faith initiatives, including the combined protest of religious suffrage societies against the forcible feeding of suffragette prisoners and the Cat and Mouse Act. It praised a speech delivered at an inter-faith meeting in July 1913 by Joseph Hochmann, Rabbi of the New West End Synagogue in Bayswater, London. [6]

The newspaper continued publishing after the outbreak of World War I. [7]

The newspaper was succeeded by The Coming Day in 1916, [8] which ran until June 1920. [9] The Coming Day was then succeeded by The New Day. [10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Wingerden, S. van (27 July 2016). The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain, 1866-1928. Springer. p. 214. ISBN   978-1-349-27493-2.
  2. 1 2 Kaye, Elaine (1990). "A Turning-point in the Ministry of Women: the Ordination of the First Woman to the Christian Ministry in England in September 1917". Studies in Church History. 27: 505–512. doi:10.1017/S0424208400012274. ISSN   0424-2084.
  3. ↑ "Free Church Suffrage Times". British Newspaper Archive . Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  4. ↑ Summers, Anne (13 January 2017). "More doing than dialogue". Church Times . Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  5. ↑ Cartwright, Colin A. (2 October 2018). "'The Enfranchisement of Baptist Women'?* A Brief History of The Baptist Women's League and the Womens' Suffrage Movement in England and Scotland" . Baptist Quarterly. 49 (4): 146–164. doi:10.1080/0005576X.2018.1520969. ISSN   0005-576X.
  6. ↑ Summers, Anne (1 July 2012). "Gender, Religion and an Immigrant Minority: Jewish women and the suffrage movement in Britain c.1900–1920" . Women's History Review. 21 (3): 399–418. doi:10.1080/09612025.2012.661156. ISSN   0961-2025.
  7. ↑ Mayhall, Laura E. Nym (6 November 2003). The Militant Suffrage Movement: Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860-1930. Oxford University Press. p. 117. ISBN   978-0-19-534783-8.
  8. ↑ Crawford, Elizabeth (2 September 2003). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928. Routledge. p. 459. ISBN   978-1-135-43401-4.
  9. ↑ "Free Church League for Women's Suffrage". Orlando Project. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  10. ↑ Cross, Anthony R.; Haymes, Brian (8 July 2021). Re-Membering the Body: The Witness of History, Theology, and the Arts in Honour of Ruth M. B. Gouldbourne. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 68. ISBN   978-1-5326-7705-2.
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