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Polling Booth
Convicts and Women kindly note,
Are not allowed to have the vote;
The difference between the two
I will now indicate to you.
When once the harmful man of crime,
In Wormwood Scrubbs has done his time,
He at the poll can…
Tags: AGE, British, CLASS, Class of voter, Education, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Woman, Younger woman
ORDER OF PROCESSION: WOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE SECTION
WOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE SECTION
C.3 AND C.4.
1. N.E.C.
2. Branches
3. Vote-sellers
4. Prisoners
5. Police Court Pro-testers
6. Tax Resisters
7. Grille Protesters
8. Picketers
9. Ballot Box Pro-testers
10. Truce…
MRS PANKHURST ARRESTED IN VICTORIA STREET. FEB. 13, 1908.
Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Arrest, British, CLASS, Emmeline Pankhurst, FASHION, Fashionable, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Man, Middle class, Photograph, PLACE, Police, policeman, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Suffragette, Uniform, Upper middle class, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, Working class, WSPU
McKenna's Cat "Bill"
"What cat could keep up with this?"
[Image: Pro-female suffrage propaganda postcard satirising the unworkable terms of the Prisoner's Temporary Discharge (for Ill Health) Act passed by the Liberal government in 1913. The…
Little Bo Peep: Votes for Sheep
SAID "VOTES FOR MY SHEEP"
BUT DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO GET THEM.
SHE STOOD IN TEH STREET
WITH A CROOK ALL COMPLETE.
IF SHE SEES A NEW HAT SHE'LL FORGET THEM.
VOTES FOR SHEEP: A MARTYR
[Image: Part of a series of postcards…
Hoping you're in for a good time this Xmas
you're in
for
a
good
time
this
Xmas.
May Xmas never prove
a 'sell,'
And naught mar your delights,
For when they give you 14 days,
You'll get your Womens Rights.
Tags: Angel, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, Christmas, FASHION, HOLIDAYS, PRISON, Prisoner, Suffragette, SYMBOLISM, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Woman, Women's rights
Great Suffrage Demonstration
HISS HISSY ADDRESSES A MEETING OF THE GOOSE'S
SOCIAL and POLITICAL UNION
"IS A QUESTION OF
GANDER – I MEAN GENDER
– TO STAND BETWEEN
US AND THE VOTE?"
[Image: Goose addressing a meeting of geese. Text above…
From Prison to Citizenship
Tags: Activist, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, banner, British, British suffragette, Citizenship, CLASS, Crowd, Man, March, Marching band, Middle class, Music, NATIONALITY, Parade, Photograph, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Procession, Rally, Suffragette, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, Working class, WSPU
For Votes for Women
Katherine Manson. March 1909.
[Image: Photographic portrait of Katharine Gatty (1870-1952) in prison dress sewing. Beneath is hand written 'For Votes for Women Katherine Manson. March 1909'. There is a handwrittten message on…
Feeding a Suffragette by Force
SUFFRAGETTE
BY FORCE.
SOUP
ICWT
[Image: From the end of September 1909, forcible feeding was the common practice of dealing with hunger-striking suffragettes who were protesting against the government’s refusal to recognise them…