Helen Archdale

Helen Archdale
Black and white portrait photograph of Helen Archdale
Born
Helen Alexander Russel

(1876-08-25)25 August 1876
Nenthorn, Scotland
Died8 December 1949(1949-12-08) (aged 73)
St John's Wood, London, England
NationalityScottish
Alma materUniversity of St Andrews
MovementWomen's Social and Political Union
Spouse
Theodore Montgomery Archdale
(m. 1901)
ChildrenBetty Archdale

Helen Alexander Archdale (née Russel; 25 August 1876 – 8 December 1949) was a Scottish feminist, suffragette and journalist. Archdale was the Sheffield branch organiser for the Women's Social and Political Union and later its prisoners' secretary in London.

Active during the First World War, Archdale initiated a training farm for women agricultural workers in 1914. In 1917 she served as a clerical worker with Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, transferring in 1918 to the women's department of the Ministry of National Service.[1]

  1. ^ "Helen Archdale". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 8 March 2017.