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Great Demonstration in the Albert Hall 1908Some ten thousand women gathered at the Embankment, then proceeded to march, in neat rows of either 4 or 6, to the Royal Albert Hall, London
WSPU leaders at Madame Tussaud s. From left to right, the wax figures are of Annie Kenny, Emmeline Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. Date: 1908
Isobel Violet Hunt (1862 - 1942), British author and literary hostess; writer of feminist novels. She founded the Women Writers Suffrage League in 1908
Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944), English composer and a member of the womens suffrage movement. 1902
Cartoon, The Whitebait Dinner... at GreenwichCartoon, The Whitebait Dinner; or, Parties at Greenwich -- rival politicians encounter each other at the traditional summertime Whitebait Dinner in Greenwich, SE London
Lord Cromer, President of the Mens League Lord Cromer, President of the Mens LeagueEvelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator, and President of the Mens League for Opposing Woman Suffrage. 1910
Cartoon, The Belle of the Season (Russell and Reform)Cartoon, The Belle of the Season -- a satirical comment on Lord John Russells promise that reform measures will be taken in the next parliamentary session
Cartoon, The Coming Struggle (Disraeli versus Gladstone)Cartoon, The Coming Struggle -- using the Boat Race as an analogy for politics, Disraeli and Gladstone are depicted as rowers in competing boats
Cartoon, The Dispatch of Business (Disraeli and Gladstone)Cartoon, The Dispatch of Business -- a satirical comment on the conflicting approaches of Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative) and William Gladstone (Liberal) to electoral reform. Date: 1866
Votes for Women at the Court Theatre 1907Votes for Women, the first suffragette play, which was staged at the Court Theatre (now the Royal Court) in 1907. The Sketch comments this is the finest crowd scene they have seen at the theatre in
Christabel Pankhurst self-exiled in Paris 1912Christabel Pankhurst (1880 - 1958), British suffragette, photographed buying a newspaper in Paris, following the discovery of her whereabouts after she left London six months before to avoid arrest
Christabel Pankhurst (1880 - 1958), British suffragette, in Montmartre, Paris, after being forced to leave London for fear of arrest
Underground passage to the House of Commons 1908The underground passage from Westminster Station to the House of Commons, a section of which was privatised for MPs, usually used in bad weather but increasingly as a way of avoiding suffragettes
Women waiting to in St Stephens Hall, Feb 1908Women waiting to be " fetched" in St Stephens Hall, guarded by policemen, as a result of concerns over the actions of the Suffragettes in the House of Commons
Processions of suffragists in London 1908Women and men protesting womens right to vote in London, notably a procession leaving Parliament Square for Hyde Park. The image is titled " woman more militant than ever"
Suffragettes in wax: a cabinet meeting of the militant ladies who seek the vote. The figures of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pethwick Lawrence and Annie Kenny
Mrs Dora Montefiore, suffragist, in courtMrs Dora Montefiore (1851-1933), English-Australian womens suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer, seen here in court on 31 October 1913. 1913
Cicely Hamilton and Edith Craig, suffragettesCicely Hamilton (1872-1952) and Edith Craig (1869-1947). Edith was the daughter of the actress Ellen Terry, a theatre director, producer, costume designer and pioneer of the womens suffrage movement
Millicent Garrett Fawcett, suffragist leaderMillicent Garrett Fawcett (Mrs Henry Fawcett LLD, 1847-1929), British suffragist leader. Date: circa 1908
Lloyd George and Pankhurst as one voice 1915David Lloyd George, British statesman at the time, speaking on the embankment, London; " We have witnessed a very fine procession of women who are anxious to help their country in the hour of
The General - Flora Drummond - suffrage campaignerFlora Drummond Suffragette. Mrs. Florrie (Flora) Drummond of the W.S.P.U, also known as General Drummond, pictured in The Sketch magazine in 1912. Date: 1912
Teach the Young idea - to window-smashThe elderly suffragette (a believer in the window-breaking policy): Look, dear - thats the sort of hammer. Cartoon commenting on the window-smashing policy of militant suffragettes. Date: 1912
Millicent FawcettMillicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), suffragist and early feminist, co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge, and president of the moderate National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)
International Woman Suffrage Alliance of OfficersInternational gathering of well-known workers for womens franchise: prominent representatives of the suffrage societies who attended the international woman suffrage alliance board of officers
Suffragette chained to prison windowSuffragette poems cover illustration: Beware! A warning to Suffragists by Cicely Hamilton, sketches by M Lowndes, D Meeson Coates and C Hedley Charlton: Artists Suffrage League, 1908 Date: 1908
The Catch of the Season - Asquith & the Vote, 1917Prime Minister Herbert Asquith shown being helped aboard a bus with the help of a female conductor during the First World War
Two suffragettes signing a petition for womens suffrage to be presented to the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, following the conclusion of a Womens March from Edinburgh to London Date: 1912
Suffragette Votes for Women Ceramic CatA brown pottery cat, the pattern of its fur resembling that of a tabby. It is wearing a ribbon tied with a bow around its neck and has painted eyes and open mouth
Christabel Pankhurst. Christabel Pankhurst L.L.B (1880-1958) Date: circa 1908
Womens deputation over the rights to vote 1905Six thousands women procession in London, to the Prime Minster Balfour, over the womens rights to vote. Date: November 1905
Holloway and SuffragetteHolloway prison... We place them on plank beds and very low diet, To stop all their din, We just run them in, Into this house that man built. Date: circa 1910
Cartoon, At Last! (franchise for women)Cartoon, At Last! Women aged 30 and over are finally given the vote in the UK. A Joan of Arc figure stands victorious with a flag labelled Womans Franchise. Date: 1918
Suffragette Drum and Fife band - Lantern SlideSuffragette Drum and Fife band - the first composed entirely of women. Date: (insert)
Women WW1 Lock KeeperCaptioned, Womens Work in War Time, shows a female lock keeper taking on work previously done by men. Date: circa 1916
Munition Worker Dogs WW1Munitions making dogs discuss their work wear - not shifts, overalls! Date: circa 1916
Alva Vanderbilt (1853 1933), nÚÑáAlva Erskine Smith, mother of Consuelo Vanderbilt Duchess of Marlborough. Date: 1895
Suffragette Tea set Sylvia PankhurstA Tea set designed by Sylvia Pankhurst for the W.S.P.U in 1909. It was commisioned from the Staffordshire Pottery firm of H.M Williamson for use in the tea room at the Womens Exhibition held at
Suffragette Poster Torturing Women in PrisonPoster depicting the forcible feeding of a suffragette with a doctor pouring liquid into a nasal tube whilst the victim is held down by a man and a prison wardress
Women on War Work WW1. Black Cat Cigarette Card. Women on War Work Series, no. 2 Game Keeper Date: 1916
Suffragette Cat and Mouse Act McKenna. Shows Reginald McKenna, Home Secretary in Asquiths government, sitting on a pedestal, labelled, Fiat Justitia (let justice be done)
Suffragette Toy Votes for Women Novelty. A novel electric buttonhole, comprising womens head and Votes for Women slogan in her mouth. Offered by Moorhouse Ltd
Suffragette Arson Rivington Pike. The ruins of the bungalow built by William Hesketh Lever, the industrialist and soap magnate, at Rivington Pike, near Bolton
The Suffragette newspaper Holiday Campaign. Front cover of The Suffragette newspaper, official organ of the Womens Social and Political Union, no. 46, Vol. 1 Friday August 29, 1913
Suffragette Constance Lytton Jane Wharton. Lady Constance Lytton who disguised herself as Jane Wharton a seamstress, to expose class differences in the treatment of suffragette prisoners
Suffragette Women Wear Trousers. Man in a skirt, woman in trousers, this is what happens when lovely woman gets the vote, The men will look such freaks, She doesn t want his hat and coat
Suffragette Girls I Didn t Marry. Man is booted out of the home for Lost, Stolen or Strayed suffragettes. A group of men-hating women shout and cheer
Suffragettes Never Been Kissed. Portrays five stereotypical suffragettes old, ugly spinsters as oil paintings in a dark wood frame
Suffragette Ruthless Rhymes of Martial Militants. Suffragette Ruthless Rhymes of Martial Militants, book of satirical cartoons written and illustrated by Nelson Harding. Illustration