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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…
Suffragette Procession June 17, 1911
[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…
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;…
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…
THE LATE MISS E.W. DAVISON
[Image: Photographic postcard, portrait of Miss Emily Wilding Davison. Emily Wilding Davidson gave up her teaching post to become a career militant. She joined the Women's Social and Political Union in 1906. She served nine prison sentences, and…
I WANT A VOTE
"A perfect woman, nobly planned
To warn, to comfort and command."
I WANT A VOTE
GIVE ME A VOTE AND SEE WHAT I'LL DO
[Image: Postcard depicts an ugly buck-toothed suffragette waving a flag, "I want a vote," above her head in front of the…
To warn, to comfort and command."
I WANT A VOTE
GIVE ME A VOTE AND SEE WHAT I'LL DO
[Image: Postcard depicts an ugly buck-toothed suffragette waving a flag, "I want a vote," above her head in front of the…
Edith Craig
[Image: Postcard with photographic portrait of Edith Craig. Craig was actress Ellen Terry's illegitimate daughter. She worked in the theatre as an actress, director and costumier. Craig belonged to a number of suffrage societies and sold the Women's…
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…
No Votes Thank You
The Appeal of Womanhood
[Image: This postcard, captioned 'The Appeal of Womanhood', was designed by Harold Bird to announce an anti-suffrage meeting at the Royal Albert Hall organised by the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage. The central…
[Image: This postcard, captioned 'The Appeal of Womanhood', was designed by Harold Bird to announce an anti-suffrage meeting at the Royal Albert Hall organised by the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage. The central…