Equality Collection (#14)

Two women police officers, Bow Street, London
Two women police officers outside Bow Street Police Station, London. They are WPC Ivy Ellis (left) and Inspector Alice Bertha Clayden (right)

Woman police officer Beatrice Wills on duty, London
Beatrice Wills (nee Wakefield), an early woman police officer, seen here on duty in a London street. She joined the force in January 1919, and is wearing the Stanley Uniform, introduced in that year

Women police officers on parade, London
Women police officers on their first parade in London, wearing the new Stanley Uniform, taking part in a postwar Thanksgiving Service. Date: 1919

George V and Queen Mary official visit, WW1
King George V and Queen Mary on an official visit to a munitions factory during the First World War. On the left behind a rope is a large group of women munitions workers

Group photo, women police officers in uniform, WW1
Group photo, women police officers in uniform, Women Police Service (WPS), on security duty at a Munitions Factory during the First World War. Also included are a military officer and a terrier dog

George V and Queen Mary visit munitions factory, WW1
King George V and Queen Mary visiting a munitions factory during the First World War. With them is an early woman police officer, Chief Inspector Reinhold (right)

Group photo, women police officers in uniform
Group photo of women police officers in uniform during the early days of the Women Police Service (WPS). Date: 1910s

Two early women police officers in uniform, the one on the left wearing sergeants stripes. Date: 1910s

First Railway Women Police, Darlington, WW1
Group photo of First Railway Women Police, stationed at Darlington and employed by the North-Eastern Railway Company during the First World War. Date: 1915-1918

Two women police sergeants with Canadian troops, WW1
Two women police sergeants of the WPS (Women Police Service), King and Campbell, in a group photo with Canadian troops, some of them wearing kilts

Early woman police officer, Mrs Lornas Heenan, in uniform with peaked cap. Date: 1910s

Group photo, munitions factory workers, Hereford, WW1
Group photo of women munitions factory workers in Hereford, together with two early women police officers, including Lilian Maud Newell (back row, towards the right)

Early woman police officer, WW1
Early woman police officer, member of a special womens patrol set up at the start of the First World War. Date: circa 1914-1915

Early woman police officer, Sub-Inspector Cooke, while on duty at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex. On her peaked cap is a badge, WPS, standing for Women Police Service. Date: 1910s

Early woman police officer with three WaFs, WW1
Early woman police officer (second left), member of the WPS (Women Police Service) formed at the start of the First World War, with three other women in WaF uniform. Date: 1914-1915

Early woman police officer, Mrs M B Crowle
Early woman police officer, Mrs Mary Beatrice Crowle, one of the first members of a special womens patrol set up at the start of the First World War

Early woman police officer, Lilian Maud Newell, WW1
Studio photo of an early woman police officer, Lilian Maud Newell (b. 1890), who joined the force at the start of the First World War. Date: 1914-1915

Early woman police officer, possibly Mary Allen. Date: 1914

Lily White, Womens Auxiliary Police Corps
Lily White of the Womens Auxiliary Police Corps (founded 1939). Date: circa 1939

Alice Cornwell, early woman police volunteer, seen here in uniform in a studio photo. Date: 1910s

Group photo, seven early woman police volunteers, including Alice Cornwell (back row, first left). Date: 1914

Women recruits for police jobs lined up
Women recruits for jobs with the Metropolitan Police in London lined up in uniform wearing armbands with the initial WPSR (probably standing for Women Police Service Recruit). Date: circa late 1910s

Sub-Inspector Barnett with women applicants
Sub-Inspector Barnett at Metropolitan Police headquarters, receiving applications from women to work for the London police force. Date: circa late 1910s

Women police officers, one on horseback
Women police officers in uniform, one on horseback (Eva Christy) and one on foot (Nina Boyle). Date: circa 1910s

Women applicants for police jobs lined up
Women applicants for jobs with the Metropolitan Police in London lined up, some of them already in uniform. Date: circa late 1910s

Women staff officers, Metropolitan Police, London
Group photo of women staff officers, Metropolitan Police, London: D Meeson Coates (Chief Inspector), Miss St John Partridge, M Damer Dawson (Chief Officer), Ms Allen (Chief Superintendent)

Women Police Service (WPS) uniform dated 1916, when women first began to join the London police force. Date: 1916

Front cover, La Baionnette
Front cover design, La Baionnette, looking forward to the time when women get the vote. Date: 1919

WOMEN AS PERSONS
Punch Cartoon depicting, John Stuart Mills logic, Franchise for females; " Pray clear the way for these- Persons" Date: 1867

Satire / Woman of Mind
My wife is a woman of mind Date: 1847

Satire / New Woman
The German New Woman Date: 1882

Blue Stocking
A French blue-stocking Date: 1850

French Blue Stocking
A French bas-bleu; blue- stocking Date: 1850

Emily Faithfull, womens rights campaigner
Emily Faithfull (1835-1895), womens rights campaigner. She set up a womens printing house, The Victoria Press, promoted womens employment, and appeared as a lecturer in the UK and America. Date: 1891

Two Women in a Bar 1928
Two elegantly dressed women in a bar. Date: 1928

Cover design, Womancraft magazine, March 1975. 1975

Maria Bochkareva, female Russian soldier, WW1
Maria Bochkareva (1889-1920), female Russian soldier who fought in the First World War and formed the Womens Battalion of Death. Date: circa 1918

Spoof missing notice, anti-suffrage satire -- Missing, A Young Lady. Date: circa 1910

Two boy scouts from British Guyana, South America
Two boy scouts (one East Indian, one African) from British Guyana, South America, observing the Fourth Scout Law (A Scout is a friend to all, and a brother to every other Scout...)

Suffrage meeting, Convention Hall, Washington DC, USA
Suffrage meeting at the Convention Hall, Washington DC, USA, 19 May 1910. Date: 1910

The Right Dishonourable Double-Face Asquith. Shows Prime Minister Asquith as a two-faced figure, dressed in French Revolutionary style confronting the King

Suffragette, the New Man. Man with moustache dressed in the colours purple, white and green, wears an enormous hat. Caption reads, The aim of the suffragette is the equality of the sexes

Two women dispatch riders, Towler and Trayner. They went on a world tour on their motorbikes, getting as far as Australia, where they both married and settled down. Date: 1958

Schoolgirl cricket players, WW1
Girls at a school in Scotland playing cricket during the First World War. The Tatler suggests they are ladies we expect to see at Lords in the coming days of sex equality. Date: 1915

Suffragettes at Buckingham Palace, London
Suffragettes, led by Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, attempting to present a petition to King George V at Buckingham Palace, London. Numerous arrests were made

The vogue of squash rackets: a game for both sexes
A page from the Illustrated London News in 1922, describing the new vogue for squash. Miss Joyce Cave(lady squash champion of 1921) and Miss S

Two women working in a garage, repairing vehicles

A group of WPCs
A line of woman police constables, smile for the camera. Date: 1980s

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