No votes for women!

Today I have been searching through English census records, trying to find out more about my maternal grandmother Hilda. By chance I came across this 1911 census return by Mrs Barke, who lived at 3 College Road, Hampstead in London.
 
In 1911 the Suffragettes set out to disrupt the census, under the rallying cry "If women don’t count, neither shall they be counted". Women were urged to refuse to complete the census or to write protest messages on the form. Hence Mrs Barke wrote boldly across her form "No votes for women, no information from women".
 
Another tactic was to be away from home on census night, 2 April 1911. Some women gathered in Trafalgar Square to party or on Wimbledon Common for a midnight picnic. Emily Davison hid in a broom cupboard at the Houses of Parliament so that she could record that as her address.
 
The protesters risked fines or even prison, but in fact no-one was prosecuted. Punch proclaimed that "The suffragettes have definitely taken leave of their census", but the impact of the protest on the census was in fact minor.
 
English women got the vote in 1918. Well, some did. Women who were over 30 and householders, or married to a householder, or who had been to university, got the vote in 1918. It was not until 1928 that women received the same voting rights as men.