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Background imageSuffrage Collection: Great Demonstration in the Albert Hall 1908

Great Demonstration in the Albert Hall 1908
Some 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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: WSPU leaders at Madame Tussaud s. From left to right, the wax figures are of Annie Kenny

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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Isobel Violet Hunt (1862 - 1942), British author and literary hostess

Isobel Violet Hunt (1862 - 1942), British author and literary hostess; writer of feminist novels. She founded the Women Writers Suffrage League in 1908

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Ethel Smyth

Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944), English composer and a member of the womens suffrage movement. 1902

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Cartoon, The Whitebait Dinner... at Greenwich

Cartoon, The Whitebait Dinner... at Greenwich
Cartoon, The Whitebait Dinner; or, Parties at Greenwich -- rival politicians encounter each other at the traditional summertime Whitebait Dinner in Greenwich, SE London

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Lord Cromer, President of the Mens League Lord Cromer, President of the Mens League

Lord Cromer, President of the Mens League Lord Cromer, President of the Mens League
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator, and President of the Mens League for Opposing Woman Suffrage. 1910

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Cartoon, The Belle of the Season (Russell and Reform)

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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Cartoon, The Coming Struggle (Disraeli versus Gladstone)

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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Cartoon, The Dispatch of Business (Disraeli and Gladstone)

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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Votes for Women at the Court Theatre 1907

Votes for Women at the Court Theatre 1907
Votes 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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Christabel Pankhurst self-exiled in Paris 1912

Christabel Pankhurst self-exiled in Paris 1912
Christabel 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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Christabel Pankhurst

Christabel Pankhurst (1880 - 1958), British suffragette, in Montmartre, Paris, after being forced to leave London for fear of arrest

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Underground passage to the House of Commons 1908

Underground passage to the House of Commons 1908
The 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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Women waiting to in St Stephens Hall, Feb 1908

Women waiting to in St Stephens Hall, Feb 1908
Women 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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Processions of suffragists in London 1908

Processions of suffragists in London 1908
Women 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"

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Suffragettes in wax: a cabinet meeting of the militant ladies who seek the vote

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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Mrs Dora Montefiore, suffragist, in court

Mrs Dora Montefiore, suffragist, in court
Mrs Dora Montefiore (1851-1933), English-Australian womens suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer, seen here in court on 31 October 1913. 1913

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Cicely Hamilton and Edith Craig, suffragettes

Cicely Hamilton and Edith Craig, suffragettes
Cicely 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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Millicent Garrett Fawcett, suffragist leader

Millicent Garrett Fawcett, suffragist leader
Millicent Garrett Fawcett (Mrs Henry Fawcett LLD, 1847-1929), British suffragist leader. Date: circa 1908

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Lloyd George and Pankhurst as one voice 1915

Lloyd George and Pankhurst as one voice 1915
David 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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: The General - Flora Drummond - suffrage campaigner

The General - Flora Drummond - suffrage campaigner
Flora 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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Teach the Young idea - to window-smash

Teach the Young idea - to window-smash
The 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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Millicent Fawcett

Millicent Fawcett
Millicent 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)

Background imageSuffrage Collection: International Woman Suffrage Alliance of Officers

International Woman Suffrage Alliance of Officers
International gathering of well-known workers for womens franchise: prominent representatives of the suffrage societies who attended the international woman suffrage alliance board of officers

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Suffragette chained to prison window

Suffragette chained to prison window
Suffragette 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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: The Catch of the Season - Asquith & the Vote, 1917

The Catch of the Season - Asquith & the Vote, 1917
Prime Minister Herbert Asquith shown being helped aboard a bus with the help of a female conductor during the First World War

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Two suffragettes signing a petition

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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Suffragette Votes for Women Ceramic Cat

Suffragette Votes for Women Ceramic Cat
A 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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Christabel Pankhurst

Christabel Pankhurst. Christabel Pankhurst L.L.B (1880-1958) Date: circa 1908

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Womens deputation over the rights to vote 1905

Womens deputation over the rights to vote 1905
Six thousands women procession in London, to the Prime Minster Balfour, over the womens rights to vote. Date: November 1905

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Holloway and Suffragette

Holloway and Suffragette
Holloway 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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Cartoon, At Last! (franchise for women)

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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Suffragette Drum and Fife band - Lantern Slide

Suffragette Drum and Fife band - Lantern Slide
Suffragette Drum and Fife band - the first composed entirely of women. Date: (insert)

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Women WW1 Lock Keeper

Women WW1 Lock Keeper
Captioned, Womens Work in War Time, shows a female lock keeper taking on work previously done by men. Date: circa 1916

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Munition Worker Dogs WW1

Munition Worker Dogs WW1
Munitions making dogs discuss their work wear - not shifts, overalls! Date: circa 1916

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Alva Vanderbilt

Alva Vanderbilt (1853 1933), nÚÑáAlva Erskine Smith, mother of Consuelo Vanderbilt Duchess of Marlborough. Date: 1895

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Suffragette Tea set Sylvia Pankhurst

Suffragette Tea set Sylvia Pankhurst
A 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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Suffragette Poster Torturing Women in Prison

Suffragette Poster Torturing Women in Prison
Poster 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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Women on War Work WW1

Women on War Work WW1. Black Cat Cigarette Card. Women on War Work Series, no. 2 Game Keeper Date: 1916

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Suffragette Cat and Mouse Act McKenna

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)

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Suffragette Toy Votes for Women Novelty

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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Suffragette Arson Rivington Pike

Suffragette Arson Rivington Pike. The ruins of the bungalow built by William Hesketh Lever, the industrialist and soap magnate, at Rivington Pike, near Bolton

Background imageSuffrage Collection: The Suffragette newspaper Holiday Campaign

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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Suffragette Constance Lytton Jane Wharton

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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Suffragette Women Wear Trousers

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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Suffragette Girls I Didn t Marry

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

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Suffragettes Never Been Kissed

Suffragettes Never Been Kissed. Portrays five stereotypical suffragettes old, ugly spinsters as oil paintings in a dark wood frame

Background imageSuffrage Collection: Suffragette Ruthless Rhymes of Martial Militants

Suffragette Ruthless Rhymes of Martial Militants. Suffragette Ruthless Rhymes of Martial Militants, book of satirical cartoons written and illustrated by Nelson Harding. Illustration



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