Bessie Watson now appears in her very own story on Our Town Stories. The material from her ‘Life in a Box’ is handily brought together to tell how she started playing the bagpipes, joined the Women’s Social and Political Union and ended up playing her pipes in the 1909 Women’s Franchise Procession and Demonstration, proudly wearing the WSPU colours as the youngest suffragette.

Move the timeline on Our Town Stories to see other pictures of life in Edinburgh during the Edwardian period. Browse the list of historical maps and discover how Edinburgh’s townscape developed in the same period.

Bessie’s story on Our Town Stories is a great way to consolidate students’ exploration of the archival material in her Life in a Box in Whose Town?