Extract 1 out of 3. Three extracts from an article called ‘Sensational Derby’ in The Morning Post, 5 June 1913, Catalogue ref: HO 144/1150/210696
The Derby is a horse race held each year at Epsom. Suffragist is a term used to describe someone who wants political voting rights given to more people, in this case to women.
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SENSATIONAL DERBY.
SUFFRAGIST’S MAD ACT.
KING’S HORSE BROUGHT DOWN.
WOMAN AND JOCKEY INJURED.
An extraordinary incident marked the race for the Derby yesterday afternoon. As the horses were making for Tattenham Corner a woman rushed out on the course in front of the King’s horse Anmer, and put her hands above her head. The horse knocked her down, and then turned a complete somersault on its jockey, Herbert Jones. When the animal recovered itself Jones was dragged a few yards. He is suffering from concussion, and the woman, who had a Suffragist flag wrapped round her waist, and whose name is Emily Wilding Davison, is in a very serious condition in Epsom Cottage Hospital. The King made immediate inquiries regarding his jockey, who has no bones broken.
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- What happened on Derby day according this newspaper?
- What is the attitude of the newspaper towards Emily Davison? [Consider the headline, language and tone.]
- How did spectators of the race, as reported by the newspaper, explain events in Source 3b?
- In what ways had Emily Davison supported the Suffragette movement according to ‘Women’s Who’s Who’ extract in the article in Source 3c?