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Chorus:
Take me back to Palace Yard, Palace Yard, Palace Yard,
That’s where I long to be, with the friends so dear to me;
The tall policeman, smiling, bland, to gently take me by the hand,
For Women’s Rights” anything we will dare; Palace Yard,…

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[This postcard shows a Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) rally in Hyde Park on 23 July 1910. The demonstration was staged in support of the Women's Conciliation Bill being debated in parliament at the time. Two processions converged on Hyde…

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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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Jane Bull: "No women admitted! No wonder the place is in such a state. High time for a good spring clean!"

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IT DOESN'T "UNSEX" HER -
TO DO THIS
OR THIS
OR THIS [FACTORY]
OR THIS
OR THIS
BUT THIS - [POLLS]
IS ANOTHER STORY

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[Image: The postcard is divided into six squares, each with an illustration of a woman in it. In the top left square is a woman scrubbing a floor. Text above reads, “It doesnt ‘unsex’ her —“ and text below reads, “to do this.” In the top right square…

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INSURANCE MONDAY

Chorus of Housewives: "We never employ extra help on MONDAY"

TAX COLLECTOR

[Image: stylised image of a group of domestic employees outside two houses where the housewives are denying they employ 'extra help' to a 'TAX…
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