Browse Items (46 total)
Sort by:
The Suffragette - In Court
[Image: A young girl in a green dress stands pouting in a court room beside her "Votes for Women" placard while a judge sits in front of her and reads off her sentence. The text below reads, "The suffregette in court - two months without chocolates"]…
Votes for Women: Mrs. Edith How Martyn
VOTES FOR WOMEN.
As University Lecturer.
In H.M. Prison Holloway.
Mrs. EDITH HOW MARTYN.
Hon. Sec. of the Women's Social and Political Union, 4, Clement's Inn, Strand, W.C.
As University Lecturer.
In H.M. Prison Holloway.
Mrs. EDITH HOW MARTYN.
Hon. Sec. of the Women's Social and Political Union, 4, Clement's Inn, Strand, W.C.
Going Shopping
All for the Cause
[Image: It draws attention to the organized breaking of shop windows. Fighting with the police was a particular favorite of the commercial publishers. This usually involved presenting the suffragettes as either ineffective and…
[Image: It draws attention to the organized breaking of shop windows. Fighting with the police was a particular favorite of the commercial publishers. This usually involved presenting the suffragettes as either ineffective and…
Suffragette Procession
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
SUFFRAGETTE PROCESSION, OCT. 7, 1911
[Image: Photographic postcard depicting the Suffragette demonstration of October 7th 1911. In the background of the image can be seen the banner 'Taxation without…
SUFFRAGETTE PROCESSION, OCT. 7, 1911
[Image: Photographic postcard depicting the Suffragette demonstration of October 7th 1911. In the background of the image can be seen the banner 'Taxation without…
From Prison to Citizenship
[Image: The postcard shows the Prisoners Pageant: 617 women in white wearing their prisoners' medals and carrying 'a glittering host of steely broad arrows' representing their imprisonment. Before them is the newly unfurled 'Hunger Strikers' banner…
Mrs. Pankhurst
[Image: Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), Honorary Secretary and later, Honorary Treasurer of the Women's Social and Political Union, ca. 1909.
Emmeline was a charismatic leader and eloquent speaker. By 1913 she had served three prison sentences;…
Emmeline was a charismatic leader and eloquent speaker. By 1913 she had served three prison sentences;…
Suffragette Procession and Hyde Park Rally
[This postcard shows a Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) rally in Hyde Park on 23 July 1910. The demonstration was staged in support of the Women's Conciliation Bill being debated in parliament at the time. Two processions converged on Hyde…
Information Bureau, W.S.P.U.
[This postcard show the suffragettes at work in the information bureau and record office at the Women's Social and Political Union (W.S.P.U.)'s headquarters, Clement's Inn. By 1910 the W.S.P.U. employed 110 salaried staff. Together with an army of…