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prison.jpg
[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…

infobureau.jpg
[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…

procession.jpg
[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…

fromsprison.jpg
[This photographic postcard shows the Prisoners' Pageant section of the Women's Coronation Procession of Saturday 17 June 1911. Lawrence Housman designed the 'From Prison to Citizenship' banner in 1908 for the Kensington branch of the Women's Social…

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