SUNDAY MORNING, NEWCASTLE QUAYSIDE, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE
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ca. 1915
From suffragepostcards.wordpress.com: Although I’m not certain that the woman speaking to the crowd on this postcard is definitely a suffragette it does seem quite likely. The card itself is unused and there are no further clues as to the identity of the woman or the occasion that brought the crowds to the quayside area.
Hyde Park Demonstration, Sunday June 21 1908.
Mrs Pankhurst, Mrs Wostenholme Elmy.
<span>Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection (Postcards and Stamps), </span><a href="https://lewissuffragecollection.omeka.net/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://lewissuffragecollection.omeka.net/</a><br /><br />Suffrage Postcards: <a href="https://suffragepostcards.wordpress.com/">https://suffragepostcards.wordpress.com/</a>
London EC.: Sandle Brothers, Empire House, Paternoster Row
1908
According to <a href="suffragepostcards.wordpress.com">suffragepostcards.wordpress.com</a>: The demonstration in Hyde Park on 21 June 1908 (‘Women’s Sunday’) was the first major event in support of women’s suffrage. Estimates of the number of people attending the event varies but it seems to have attracted 200-300,000 people. There were numerous marches and stages set up for speeches by the Pankhursts and other leading figures.
Hyde Park Demonstration, Sunday June 21 1908.
Miss Christobel Pankhurst, LL.B & Mrs Pethick Lawrence.
From suffragepostcards.wordpress.com: The Museum of London has images of this event.
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London EC.: Sandle Brothers, Empire House, Paternoster Row
1908
A Lancashire Lass in Clogs & Shawl Being "Escorted" through Palace Yard
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, take me there!
From Museum of London: The parliamentary defeat of a Private Members Bill that would have given the vote to some women, was the catalyst for this demonstration. Forty Lancashire mill girls and Annie Kenney joined hundreds of suffragettes trying to get into the Lobby of the House of Commons. Many were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and reisting the police. Sixty-five were sentenced to jail terms of up to four weeks.
G.W. Edward
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1907
From suffragepostcards.wordpress.com: The suffragette in this postcard has been identified as Dora Thewlis, aged 16 at the time of the postcard, otherwise known as ‘Baby Suffragette’. She was actually from Yorkshire not Lancashire. This postcard is used as a cover of Jill Liddington’s book ‘Rebel Girls: How votes for women changed Edwardian lives’ and she has information about Thewlis. Several newspapers marked the release of her book with articles about Thewlis: The Independent (8th May 2006) carries an article entitled ‘Dora Thewlis: The lost suffragette’ and the Daily Mirror (10th June 2006) has an article entitled ‘The baby suffragette’.
McQuiston (Suffragettes to She Devils, page 26) has a copy of the postcard and writes that it was probably taken at a demonstration outside the House of Commons in 1907. The protest was at the failure of a bill introduced by W.H. Dickinson in March. She notes that it is unusual as it features a working woman. McDonald (Vindication! A postcard history of the women’s movement, page 37) feels that the card ‘marks a significant change in postcards of the movement by showing the involvement of working women and the authority of the police’. McDonald adds that it was also an early example of ‘news’ being made into a postcard.
From Museum of London: March 20, 1907
London Life. Arrest of a militant suffragette.
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Hustle them in, and bustle them in,
Scoop up th’ shriekin’ mob
Who says that “Justice” is going to win
When “the Law” takes up the job?”
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London: Rotary Photo E.C.
From suffragepostcards.wordpress.com: This postcard features the arrest of a suffragette, later identified as Mary Phillips. She has a policeman at each arm and the group are escorted by around six mounted police and others on foot. A male crowd watches as the group pass. Behind them is a bus heading to Kings Cross.
A biography of Mary Phillips is available in Crawford’s The Women’s Suffrage Movement and online at Spartacus Education and a photograph of her at Bath in time. Copies of the postcard can be seen at the Museum of London and Diomedia.
London Life. “Votes for Women.”
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Woman holding a blown-up poster of the front page of The Suffragette with the headline, "An Anti-Shock by James Barr"
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London: Rotary Photo E.C.
1912
From suffragepostcards.wordpress.com: According to Crawford, the Rotary Photo Company issued at least three ‘London Life’ suffrage postcards, two of women selling The Suffragette (1) this image; (2) a woman, identified as Jeanie Sheppard, in a horse-drawn cart; and (3) a woman being arrested (identified as Mary Phillips).
The woman in the image is wearing a ‘Holloway brooch’, a ‘brooch of honour’ designed by Sylvia Pankhurst for women who had been imprisoned in Holloway Prison. The brooch shows “a portcullis symbol of the House of commons, the gate and hanging chains in silver and the superimposed broad arrow in purple, white and green enamel“ (Crawford). According to the Museum of London it was first awarded to ex-prisoners at a demonstration at the Albert Hall on 29th April 1909. A photo of the Holloway brooch, can be seen at the Museum of London.
The newsletter ‘The Suffragette’ was published by the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). It replaced the earlier ‘Votes for Women’ newsletter in 1912 following the ousting of the Pethick-Lawrences. The issue which is on display in the photograph is No. 2, October 25, 1912.
MISS EDITH NEW, Of the National Women's Social and Political Union.
[Image: Photographic portrait Miss Edith New. The text below the image reads: "Of the National Women's Social and Political Union. {Peter McNairn, Photographer, Hawi."]; 9x14; print.
Peter McNairn, Swindon Advertiser
Francis Bevan, <em>Swindon in the Past Lane</em>, <a href="http://swindonhistory.blogspot.com/">http://swindonhistory.blogspot.com/</a>
Swindon: Swindon Advertiser
1908
Mrs. Pankhurst Hon. Sec.
[Image: Photographic Portrait of Mrs. Pankhurst Hon. Sec. The text below the image reads: "Women's Social and Political Union & Clement's Inn Hon. Sec."]; 9x14; print.
<span>Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, <a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller003946/">https://www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller003946/</a></span>
London: publisher unknown
ca. 1909
SUFFRAGETTES AT HOME – Mrs. Snow Makes Pastry
[Image: Suffragette rolls out dough in her kitchen to bake pastries. The text above the image reads: "The Women's Freedom League, 1, Robert Street, Adelphi." The text below the image reads: "Suffragettes at Home.–(1.) Mrs. Snow Makes Pastry."]; 9x14cm; print.
Women's Freedom League
I, Robert Street, Adelphi
Museum of London, Suffragette Prints, Women's Freedom League, Image number 006357, <a href="https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/289901.html">https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/289901.html</a><a href="https://www.museumoflondonprints.com/"></a>
Adelphi: Women's Freedom League
ca. 1910
Son help mere man
[Image: Three women with angry expressions on their faces enter a room as one man knocks over a table with a drink and playing cards, another man hides under the table, and the last man runs away. The text below the image reads: "Son help mere man"] 9x14 cm; print.
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1909