Suffrage Collection (page 7)

A suffragette advertising a votes for women march from Victoria Embankment. Date: 1910s

The advent of women at the polls, 1929
Two sophisticated and fashionable ladies in heels, cloche hats and fur trimmed coats alight from a taxi at a polling station where they will vote for the first time in the General Election of May

Satire on the call for more rights for Women
Men Only. A strange satire on the Womens Suffrage Movement, based around the Alice stories by Lewis Carroll. The Duchess (representing the vocal elder Womens rights activists) is demanding cake

Millicent Garrett Fawcett, suffragist and early feminist, co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge, and president of the moderate National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)

Victoria Woodhull in a dramatic court case
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927), an American womens rights activist, involved in family row which leads to a dramatic court case

Reform Bill - Disraeli as friend of the working man
The new Friend of the Working Man or the Party who may bring in a Reform Bill next Session after all. Benjamin Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer for the Conservative party caricatured as a

Victorian scrap - MP of the future
Victorian scrap - Political Types - MP of the Future. late 19th century

Anti-Suffrage Cartoon 1912 Demonstration
Depicts Mrs. Pankhurst on horseback attempting to storm the Bastille, a reference to the Votes for Women Rally, held 14th July 1912, organised by the W.S.P.U

Anti-Suffrage Demonstration 1912
Advertisement for a Demonstration by the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage at the Albert Hall, 28th February, 1912

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

Suffragette Arson
Scene of destruction at Saunderton Railway Station after a fire started by suffragettes on 9th March 1913. Apparently placards reading Votes for Women

Suffragette Christmas Cracker
Rather Masculine Looking suffragette waving an umbrella proclaims, When a Voter I shall be Proof against all Bribery. Nor shall Vile Corruption prove of Avail. I ll Vote - for love

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

Women WW1 WaC Christmas Card
A WW1 Christmas card sent by a cheerful W.A.A.C calling Cheerio, Alls Well, France 1918. Picture of her camp behind. Date on reverse, December 1918. Date: 1918

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

Women World War 1
Shows two motor vehicles provided for the Bien-Etre du Blesse Motor unit, the photo taken in Central Park, New York in 1917

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 Demonstration W. S. P. U London 1908
A photo of a suffragette demonstration by the W.S.P.U through London in 1908. Mrs Pankhurst, Mary Clarke (Her sister), Charlotte Marsh and Jessie Kenney are seated in the brake

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 Mens League Shop
The Mens League for Womens Suffrage was founded in 1907 by Herbert Jacobs. Although it was non-militant and was not affiliated to any political party

Suffragette in prison Votes for Women
A suffragette is seated inside a prison cell. Note the graffiti on the walls. The rhyme, addressed to the inmate reads, While you remain a suffragetteA velentine you ll never getWhat man would ever

Suffragette Womens Exhibition 1909 Cartoon Model
One of a series of 12 Cartoons in Model, part of the Political Peepshow exhibit at the W.S.P.Us Womens Exhibition, May 1909

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

Suffragette on the Hustings
At last, a woman campaigns for a seat in the House for herself! Surrounded by a group of men, one of whom winks and says, I ll vote for a woman any day

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

Scottish Womens Hospitals WW1
Two paper flags sold to raise funds for the Scottish Womens Hospitals at the front. The SWH was founded by Dr. Elsie Inglis, a member of the National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies

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

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