Created by young filmmaker Elizabeth McGlynn, War on Lies: The Alice Wheeldon Campaign premiered at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery on 27 January 2024, 108 years after Alice’s birth.
Alice Wheeldon's birthday marked by screening of new documentary
Derby walk - in the footsteps of Alice Wheeldon
Derby Museums feature Alice Wheeldon in new exhibition
Media coverage of CCRC decision
Alice Wheeldon: Decision by Criminal Cases Review Commission
Alice's story told through song
Derby folk trio Moirai have created a moving musical drama based on Alice Wheeldon’s story, available on CD.
Alice Wheeldon and the First World War
New Derby walking guide released
BBC reports on Chloë Mason's lodgement of CCRC application
BBC News, Derby, 20 November 2019: The family of a woman jailed for a plot to poison a prime minister has lodged an application to review her case.
Alice Wheeldon was convicted in 1917 of a conspiracy to kill David Lloyd George as she opposed World War One.
Wheeldon's great-granddaughter Chloe Mason, who lives in Australia, came to England to deliver the application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
Application lodged for review by Criminal Cases Review Commission
'Alice Wheeldon Room' dedicated by Derby City Council
Women and the First World War: A taste of freedom
Remembering Deirdre Mason, Alice's great granddaughter
The campaign to overturn the miscarriage of justice suffered by her great grandmother was the culmination of a lifetime of activism for Deirdre Mason, but she unfortunately did not live long enough to see the mission through.
The English-born Deirdre passed away in a Sydney hospice on 8 October 2017, with her brother Paul and sister Chloë near, and as she held the hand of her wife Jenni Neary.
Alice Wheeldon receives a STAR in Derby
Remembering Peter Mason, physics professor and Alice Wheeldon's grandson
‘The Science Show’, ABC Radio National, 5 August 2017: Physics professor Peter Mason gave the first lecture at the newly opened Macquarie University in Sydney in 1967. He was also a radio presenter producing award-winning programs for a new radio show on the ABC, The Science Show. But there was a painful family history which was only revealed to his daughters just prior to his death in 1987. Sharon Carleton reports.
Vigil for Alice Wheeldon at Royal Courts of Justice
BBC News, Derby, 11 March 2017: Relatives of a suffragette jailed for plotting to poison a prime minister have held a vigil outside the Royal Courts of Justice as part of their campaign to clear her name.
Alice Wheeldon was convicted 100 years ago, on 11 March 1917, of planning to kill Lloyd George as she opposed World War One.
Two of her great-granddaughters came from Australia for the vigil.
