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- Tags: Prisoner
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
The Suffragette Judgess
"THE HOUSE" that man built: Suffragette
AND this is the poor little Suffragette
Who tried, Oh so hard, in this HOUSE to get:
Tho' it wasn't a crime
Still with patience sublime
She spends the best part of her life doing time;
OH FIE! Suffragette
Be…
Suffragette Procession June 17, 1911
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
The WILD ROSE
Tags: Abusive woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, CLASS, Drawing, FASHION, Fight, Flowers, Hat, Man, Middle class, NON-HUMAN, PLANT, Police, Prisoner, PROFESSION, Umbrella, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE, Woman
The English Inquisitors Have Revived Torture In Our Prisons
[Image: Pro-suffrage propaganda postcard published by the Suffrage Atelier captioned 'The English Inquisitors Have Revived Torture In Our Prisons'. The caption and image refers to the…
Tags: ACTIVITIES, Arrest, British, Coercion, Drawing, English, Fight, FOOD, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, Inquisition, Inquisitors, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffragettes, Torture, VIOLENCE
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…
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…