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Chorus:
Take me back to Palace Yard, Palace Yard, Palace Yard,
That’s where I long to be, with the friends so dear to me;
The tall policeman, smiling, bland, to gently take me by the hand,
For Women’s Rights” anything we will dare; Palace Yard,…

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[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…

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[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…

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[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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[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…

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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…

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"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…

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[Image: A masculine suffragette with her hair in a bun and a Tyrolean hat threatening to launch a "Votes for Women" stone in a sling. The text on the behind and below her reads, "Give me a vote or - Sermons in Stones!"] Color; 9x14cm; Print
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