Nellie Hall

Nellie Hall (about 1893[1] – 26 July 1976), later known as Nell Hall-Humpherson, was a British suffragette, arrested and imprisoned several times for her activities with the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).

Nellie Hall was early exposed to political and cultural discussions in a home that hosted visitors such as Emmeline Pankhurst and George Bernard Shaw.

[2] Hall worked for the WSPU in Birmingham from 1911 to 1913 until she was arrested for throwing a brick through the window of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith's car on 21 July 1913.

[9] Nellie moved back to Birmingham during the First World War, where she joined the Post Office and became the first mail sorter for the British Expeditionary Force.

[1] In 1962, she appeared as the mystery guest on the Canadian television programme Front Page Challenge, and in 1965 she gave several newspaper interviews about her suffrage years.

Dedication by Nellie Hall in Mabel Capper 's WSPU prisoners scrapbook October 1910 (Transcribed: "The thing that makes the trouble is not so much what actually happens but what we fear may happen and it is fear & imagination that cause panics. No Surrender!!! Nellie Hall, July 28, 1910; Victoria Square, November 26, 1909.")