In this manner, thousands of women throughout the kingdom slept in unoccupied houses on Census night. On this day in 1911, women across England protested against the Liberal Government‘s reluctance to give women the vote by boycotting the census. Emmeline Pankhurst urged passive protest from her followers, suggesting they refuse to complete the census return, or be out of the house altogether to avoid enumerators ensuring they were not counted in the census returns. Today's reading is an extract from Pankhurst's My Own Story in which she describes the events and results of that fateful night. Reading time: 5 minutes My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst Chapter VIII [...] In April of that year the census was to be taken, and we organised a census resistance on the part of women. According to our law the census of the entire kingdom must be taken every ten years on a designated day. Our plan was to reduce the value of the census for statistical purposes by refusing...