From trailblazing women's history to unexpected ancestry discoveries, understand the past, one family story at a time.
On the night of 2 April 1911 census enumerators were collecting the details of households across Britain. Still battling towards their goal of universal suffrage, tens of thousands of women decided to boycott the census by resisting being counted in protest at the government's refusal to grant them a vote. Many women hid and attempted to confuse enumerators by travelling to different addresses throughout the night, while others opted for a more creative approach. Uncovered: Emily Davison Hiding in Parliament's Crypt in 1911:…