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Companions in Disgrace
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…

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ORDER OF PROCESSION
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…

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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…

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LITTLE BO PEEP
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…

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Hoping
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.

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GREAET 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…

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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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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…

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FEEDING A
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…
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