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Sylvia Pankhurst.jpg
[Image: Photographic portrait of Mrs. Sylvia E. Pankhurst, an English campaigner for the suffrage movement.]

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…

posterparade.jpg
[This postcard shows a 'poster parade' by a group of suffragettes wearing sandwich boards printed in purple, white and green, the suffragette colours, to advertise a demonstration to be held on Ealing Common on 1 June 1912. This was one of a series…

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Votes for Women: The Suffragette nails her colours to the mast

[Here the suffragette is depicted as a masculine woman wearing manly clothing including a pork pie hat, this being at the time a direct reference to lesbianism. Those opposing female…

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