No Vote, No Census

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Thought this was interesting given the upcoming elections and census. If you do family tree research you may find that some female relatives 'disappear' on this census.

"On the night of Sunday 2nd April 1911 the census took place against a background of a threatened boycott by the Women's Suffrage movement. They were encouraged to write across the census schedule with protest statements that you may come across while searching. "I don't count, so I won't be counted" and "No vote no Census". Many women hid and attempted to confuse enumerators by travelling to different addresses throughout the night. They provide a remarkable insight into attitudes of many women at the time, and allows us to 'hear' their individual protests in their own words. One suffragette completed her census form by giving the name of a male servant and then adding "no other persons but many women."

Maybe there could be a GC version for the upcoming census (2021)!

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My gosh. I felt moved reading that. I think it could be doubly appropriate for us today given the likelihood that the upcoming census will ask the sex question in a way that emphasises they really mean "gender ID". Those of us who believe gender is a system of oppression rather than a feeling are going to struggle to answer the census truthfully anyway.

I don't count, so I won't be counted.

I'm all for that. If you don't know what a woman is, why bother recording her existence? If British legal data can be partly fictional, why bother telling the truth on any of it?

This is the census during which Emily Wilding Davison hid in a broom cupboard in the Houses of Parliament.

Count me in (or not!)

Fascinating!

Barbara Gives me chills thinking about that (in a proud way).

I decided a while ago to not be on the next census. I have a way of not being counted. I don't have to hide in a broom cupboard or break any rules to disappear.