Emancipation Collection (page 2)

Anti-Suffrage Cartoon Her Mothers Voice
Young girl and her father view mother with alarm as she races past the window wielding a hammer. Date: 1911

Flora Drummond WSPU Suffragettes prison Dress
Flora Drummond discusses tactics with members of the W.S.P.U in replica prison dress. Date: circa 1908

WW1 Munitions Worker
Mary the Maid of Munitions, in bonnet and overalls with munitions factory scene behind her. An attractive and sympathetic image. Date: circa 1916

Women WW1 Munitions Woolwich Arsenal
Interior of the Shell Factory at Woolwich Arsenal showing women workers and some men (supervisors?). The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, employed around 80, 000 people during the first World War

London - Kings Road, Chelsea - Whitelands College. A flagship womens college of the Church of England, it was the first college of higher education in the UK to admit women

Catholic Emancipation
A British battering Ram preparing the way for a Popish Bull - A satire on the pressure for Catholic emancipation, which led to an Act of Parliament in 1829

Women Duelling 19C
Women duelling with swords

Picnic in a car at Brooklands
Two women enjoying a picnic from the backseat of a car at Brooklands, 1927. 1927

The Harem Skirt
Daring fashions for women in " The Sphere" magazine, 1927. The accompanying text scathingly declares that the Harem Skirt is " what we hope it will never be"

The Gartered Skirt
The gartered skirt, " the latest stunt costume", according to The Sphere magazine, which had the " merit of convenience, but the disadvantage of ugliness". 1927

A Flapper Girl
" A smart costume for sport from the centre of feminine fashion", presumably Paris. A highly modern outfit featured in an article in The Sphere

Suffragette Jessie Kenney WSPU
Jessie Kenney models the DX2 replica Holloway Prison badge and prison bonnet. Other women are seen sewing more badges and bonnets before the demonstration by the W.S.P.U. Date: circa 1908

Anti-Suffrage Cartoon Portrait
Cartoon of lady showing a portrait of a suffragette to John Bull who, unimpressed, remarks, You will excuse me if I laugh, wont you? Date: 1911

Anti-Suffrage Cartoon His Missus Voice
Shows Nipper the HMV dog, startled by the cry Votes for Women bellowing from the gramophone. Date: 1911

Women WW1 Womens Land Army
Front cover of The Land Girls Love Story by Bertha Ruck. The Land Girl shares a kiss with a man in Khaki, among the haystacks. Date: circa 1918

Women WW1 V. A. Ds
Cover of the book A V.A.D in France, by Olive Dent, illustration by Hassall. Date: 1917

Women WW1 W. A. A. C
Front cover of A Transport Girl in France. A Story of the Adventures of a W.A.A.C by Bessie Marchant. Date: circa 1920

Frances Ivens Scottish Womens Hospitals
Portrait of Frances Ivens (1870-1944), Chief Medical Officer of the Scottish Womens Hospitals unit at the Abbaye de Royaumont 1914-1919

Scottish Womens Hospitals Royaumont
A fleet of ambulances outside the Abbaye de Royaumont, France, where the Scottish Womens Hospitals based their first unit in 1914. They worked with the French Red Cross. Date: circa 1914

Mabel Tuke Suffragette
Portrait of Mabel kate Tuke (1871-1962), who from 1906 to 1914 was Hon. Sec. of the W.S.P.U. Date: circa 1912

Lady Constance Lytton Arrested
Lady Constance Lytton arrested for throwing a stone at the car carrying Sir Walter Runciman through Newcastle in October 1909. Date: 1909

Suffragette Emmeline Pethick Lawrence
Mrs. Pethick Lawrence waves to her supporters on her release from Holloway, 17th April 1909. Date: 1909

Suffragette Elsie Howley
Elsie Howey on horseback at the head of the procession celebrating the release of Emmeline Pethick Lawrence from prison, April 1909. Date: 1909

Womens Freedom League House of Commons
Members of the Womens Freedom League battle with police as they try to enter the House of Commons on 28th October 1908. Date: 1908

NUWSS Suffrage Committee Room
Exterior of the London Society for Womens Suffrage Committee rooms, displaying many pro-suffrage posters by the Artists Suffrage League. Date: circa 1911

Maud Arncliffe Sennett
Portrait of Maud Arncliffee Sennett (1862-1936) who was associated with several suffrage organisations including the W.S.P.U

Suffragette Mary Phillips Selling Votes for Women
Mary Phillips attempts to persuade a gent to purchase the suffragette paper. Date: circa 1908

Florence de Fonblanque Suffragist Pilgrimage
Portrait of Florence de Fornblanque (1864-1949). She organised the 1912 Womens March from Edinburgh to London. She founded the Qui Vive Corps in 1912. Date: 1912

Suffragette Annie Kenney Policeman
Suffragette Annie Kenney pictured amongst a group of W.S.P.U members. The caption, hand written on the reverse reads, Miss Annie Kenney interrogating a policeman at the House of Commons

Suffragette Barbara Ayrton Campaign Bus
Barbara Ayrton stands on the running board of the W.S.P.Us battle bus, while suffragettes sell copies of Votes for Women newspaper, Date: 1909

Suffragette Miss. Frumpy
Stereotypical spinster figure, lectures on the topic, Should women marry. Date: circa 1910

Man Beaten up by a Suffragette
Man in tattered suit, bandaged and bloodied with an arm and knee in a sling, rues the day he had an argument with a suffragette. Note the perpetrators umbrella stuck in his arm. Date: circa 1913

Suffragettes Arrested London
A line of policemen escort arrested suffragettes through St. Jamess Park, London, following the demonstration outside Buckingham Palace. Date: 1914

WW1 Ambulance Train
Inside the Treatment Room, pharmacy car on a WW1 Continental Ambulance Train Date: circa 1915

WW1 Ambulance Train Ward Car
Two nurses on the Continental Ambulance Train display equipment in the ward car, beds arranged for sitting up cases. Date: circa 1915

Women Workers WW1 Postwoman
Postwoman trudging through the snow with bulging mail bag is confronted by a snapping terrier. Doing her bit whilst the men are at the front. Date: circa 1917

Women War Work WW1 Railways
Womens work in wartime involves the cleaning of railway carriages, reflecting the shortage of male workers in WW1. Date: circa 1917

Womens Work in Wartime WW1
A woman in a smart tailored uniform stands outside a milliners shop, she is described as a portiere or door keeper. Date: circa 1917

Womens War Work WW1 Ticket Collector
Girl in blue uniform works as a Ticket Collector Doing her Bit during the First World War. Date: circa 1915

Womens War Work WW1 Post Girl
A little girl with large G. P. O. satchel, delivers the post, Doing her Bit for the war effort. Date: circa 1915

Womens Land Army WW1 Durham
A large gathering of Womens Land Army recruits outside Durham Cathedral (?) Date: circa 1917

Womens War Work WW1 Policewoman
Doing her Bit is the Lady Bobby, or Policewoman. Date: circa 1915

Women WW1 Bus Conductress
A girl in the uniform of a bus conductress or Clippie, calls Fares Please. An example of women taking on mens roles during WW1. Date: circa 1915

Women Work the Land WW1
A group of women with forks help to work the land during WW1. Captioned, Womans Work in War Time, in the Fields. Date: circa 1916

Women WW1 Work Milk Woman
Captioned, Womans Work in War Time, a young girl carries a lidded pail to deliver milk. Date: circa 1917

Women WW1 Farming
Young girl with heavy horse thinks of the men at the front. We re doing ours while you re giving away Et la terre produira quand meme Date: circa 1917

Womens Land Army WW1 Farming
A young girl wearing a Land Army outfit feeds the pigs on the farm, helping the war effort. Captioned, Karina on the Land. Date: circa 1916

Women WW1 Tram Conductor
A Lady tram conductor in the city of Nottingham during WW1, when women took on roles formerly fulfilled by men. Date: circa 1916

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