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Matrimonial Bliss

MATRIMONIAL BLISS

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, Childcare, Drawing, Family, FASHION, Fashionable, Fatherhood, Gender Roles, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Infant, Man, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Sewing, Wife, Woman

Lancashire and Cheshire Women's Textile and Other Workers Representation Committee

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[Image: Group portrait of women with banner on railings, Lancashire & Cheshire WomensTextile And Other Workers Representation Committee, 1908. Illustrates organisation and involvement of working women. This is a rare photograph, possibly of Sarah…

Tags: AGE, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Britain, Cheshire, FASHION, Hat, Lancashire, Man, Older woman, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Woman

"When Father says 'Vote' - we all vote!"

"When Father says 'Vote' - we all vote!"TO THEPOLLS[Image: Illustrator Donald McGill's postcards proved hugely popular with seaside holidaymakers.The two postcards of this kind in the collection comment on the passing of the Equal Franchise Act in…

"Where are you going to, my pretty Maid?"

"Where are you going to, my pretty Maid?"
"I'm going a-voting, Sir," she said.
"And who shall you vote for, my pretty Maid?"
That Duck in plus fours, kind sir," she said.

[Image: Illustrator Donald McGill's postcards proved hugely popular with…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Briefcase, British, EMOTIONS, Flapper, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Male politician, Man, Politician, PUBLIC, Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act, Surprise, Surprised Man, Umbrella, Voting, Woman

Woman Suffrage

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Postcard, printed, cardboard, black image and text, white background, produced by the Suffrage Atelier, stylised image of a man and a woman riding a horse, man holding the reins, woman clinging to the man, printed inscription front: 'WOMAN SUFFRAGE…

Tags: British, FASHION, Hat, Horse, John Bull, Man, Manhood suffrage, Men's Franchise, Mrs. Bull, PRO-SUFFRAGE, SYMBOLISM, Woman

Margaret Llewelyn Davies

Mrs. L. Davies, Secretary Co-op Women's Guild

Tags: AGE, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, FASHION, Fashionable, Jewelry, Margaret Llewelyn Davies, Older woman, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Woman, Women's Guild, Women's rights

VOTES FOR WOMEN

VOTES FOR WOMEN.

VOTES
FOR
WOMEN

WOMEN
ARE
HALF THE
PEOPLE
& DEMAND
A VOICE IN
DECIDING
THE TAXES

THE COMMONS
AS
REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE PEOPLE
MUST DECIDE
THE TAXES

THE PEOPLE
NOT THE
COMMONS
MUST DECIDE
THE…

Tags: Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, Hat, King George V, Man, Middle class, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Royalty, Upper class, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, Working class, WSPU

A BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO MOCKING-BIRDS IN THE BUSH

Postcard, printed, cardboard, black and white image, black text, white background, produced by the Suffrage Atelier, stylised image of a woman standing beside a tree holding a bird in her hand, two birds in the tree with male human heads, printed…

Tags: Bird, Conciliation Bill, Fashionable, Future, Harpy, Man, Mythical creature, Mythology, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Tree, Woman