Inside the National Records of Scotland
Illustration of a policeman taking a suffragette to be force-fed (National Records of Scotland, JC26/1913/90, Crown Copyright)
Arabella Scott was one of the few suffragettes force-fed in Scotland, and she was the only one to have endured such treatment for over a month. Arabella’s experience raises questions over the actions of the authorities and whether they employed forcefeeding as a form of punishment.