[2] In December 1908 Tolson, aged 20, was arrested with Patricia Tomlison and Joseph Salignet outside the Sun Hall in Liverpool, where David Lloyd George was speaking.

[4] When Tolson was arrested outside the Houses of Parliament,[5] her father wrote to the Home Secretary, Herbert Gladstone, to complain at the police violence.

[6] In August, Tolson was beaten up by a Liberal crowd who had come to hear Winston Churchill and Herbert Samuel at Rushpool Hall, Saltburn-by-the-Sea.

[7] In September she and her younger sister Catherine were amongst the suffragettes arrested for breaking glass at White City in Manchester, who all accepted imprisonment rather than pay fines.

[9] On 4 December 1909 Tolson, Dora Marsden and Winson Etherley were arrested for breach of the peace for disrupting an appearance by Winston Churchill at the Empire Theatre in Southport.