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All for the Cause

[Image: It draws attention to the organized breaking of shop windows. Fighting with the police was a particular favorite of the commercial publishers. This usually involved presenting the suffragettes as either ineffective and…

Tags: Activist, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, breaking of shop windows, British, British suffragette, Civil disobedience, Drawing, FASHION, Hammer, Hat, Hat pin, National League Opposing Women’s Suffrage, Suffragette, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE

The Vote Girl

MANHOOD SUFFRAGE

CONCILIATION BILL

I want the vote, and I mean to have the
Vote, thats the sort of girl I am _

[Image: Pro-suffrage propaganda postcard captioned 'The Vote Girl'. The postcard refers to suffrage determination to get the…

Tags: Bow, Boy, British, Children, Conciliation Bill, Conciliation Bill of 1910, Fight, Girl, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, Legislation, Newspaper, PRO-SUFFRAGE, SYMBOLISM, VIOLENCE

The English Inquisitors Have Revived Torture In Our Prisons

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

What would I do with the suffragists

Tags: Abusive, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, Chain, Chair, Coercion, EMOTIONS, FASHION, HOUSEHOLD, Suffragette, SYMBOLISM, Torture, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE, Woman

The WILD ROSE

The WILD ROSE, which Requires Careful Handling.

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

BRISTOL "VARSITY STUDENTS REVENGE." THE WRECKED SUFFRAGETTES HEADQUARTERS.

[Image: A large crowd gathers outside the Women's Social and Political Union meeting place in London to witness the destruction of the headquarters by students of Bristol University. The students were responding to the burning down of their sports…

Tags: Activist, ACTIVITIES, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bristol, British, CLASS, Crowd, Hat, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, Horse, London, Man, NON-HUMAN, Photograph, PLACE, PUBLIC, VIOLENCE, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, Working class, WSPU