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Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Cat Scratch and Fight Police

Suffragette Cat Scratch and Fight Police

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Board Game PANK-A-SQUITH

Suffragette Board Game PANK-A-SQUITH
A suffragette board game called Pank-A-Squith which was first advertised in the pages of Votes for Women, October 1909

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Rally Womens Sunday Programme 1908

Suffragette Rally Womens Sunday Programme 1908. Official programme & souvenir of the Votes for Women Demonstration, 21st June 1908

Background imageVotes Collection: The Suffragette that knew Jiu-Jitsu

The Suffragette that knew Jiu-Jitsu - The Arrest. A crowd of terrified Policemen look on in trepidation at a lone suffragette, her sleeves rolled up, ready to take on all-comers

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette W. S. P. U Badge and Ribbon

Suffragette W. S. P. U Badge and Ribbon
A circular tin badge with green border, white centre and purple lettering - W.S.P.U Votes for Women. Attatched to the badge is a piece of purple, white and green satin ribbon. Date: circa 1908

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette W. S. P. U Badge Sylvia Pankhurst

Suffragette W. S. P. U Badge Sylvia Pankhurst
Badge issued by the Womens Social & Political Union with design by Sylvia Pankhurst

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Pankhurst Manchester Docks

Suffragette Pankhurst Manchester Docks. Mrs. Pankhurst stands in the dock, resplendent in picture hat and votes for women sash. A reference to the fact that the Pankhursts hailed from Manchester

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Votes for Women Meeting

Suffragette Votes for Women Meeting. Leaflet/flyer issued by the National Womens Social & Political Union, advertising a public meeting at the Music Hall, Aberdeen, March 5th 1909, Mrs

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Cat in Straw Hat Votes for Women

Suffragette Cat in Straw Hat Votes for Women. Cat in a straw hat, placed at a jaunty angle, wears a large placard which reads, Votes for Women Date: circa 1908

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragettes - Christmas Dinner in Holloway by Lawson Wood

Suffragettes - Christmas Dinner in Holloway by Lawson Wood
Four portly prison officers and policemen force feed a handcuffed suffragette Christmas pudding from the police buffet trolley in Holloway Prison. Date: 1912

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette W. S. P. U Sash Votes for Women

Suffragette W. S. P. U Sash Votes for Women
Sash produced for the Womens Social & Political Union, in the colours of purple, white and green

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette W. S. P. U Sash Votes for Women

Suffragette W. S. P. U Sash Votes for Women
Womens Social & Political Union sash, in the colours of purple, white and green. White background with border edging of purple and green, dark green lettering

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette W. S. P. U Ribbon Badge

Suffragette W. S. P. U Ribbon Badge
Suffragette badge in purple, white and green grosgrain ribbon, with Votes for Women woven into the middle white section

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Hyde Park Demonstration 1908

Suffragette Hyde Park Demonstration 1908. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst stands beside Mrs. Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) Pioneer Suffragist then aged 75 yrs, in a Votes for Women sash

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Votes for Women Christmas Card

Suffragette Votes for Women Christmas Card. Tabby cat with a feather in its hat, ribbon badge and satchel, holds a Vote for Women scroll

Background imageVotes Collection: Card Game - The Game of Suffragette

Card Game - The Game of Suffragette
The Game of Suffragette was devised and produced by the Kensington branch of the Womens Social & Political Union

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Badge Womens Freedom League

Suffragette Badge Womens Freedom League
Badge produced for the Womens Freedom League in tin with celluloid (?) covering, in W.F.Ls colours of green, gold and white

Background imageVotes Collection: Sheet Music Suffragettes Humorous One or Two Step

Sheet Music Suffragettes Humorous One or Two Step

Background imageVotes Collection: Hogarth / Election / B / W / (2)

Hogarth / Election / B / W / (2)
2. THE ELECTION Canvassing for votes

Background imageVotes Collection: Votes for Women Hyde Pk

Votes for Women Hyde Pk
Photograph showing the scale of the Votes for Women demonstration in Hyde Park on 21 June 1908; many women and men attended; some hold banners

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette woman in the stocks, unsympathetic cartoon

Suffragette woman in the stocks, unsympathetic cartoon
Unsympathetic comment on Votes or Women 1913

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette W. S. P. U Sash Votes for Women

Suffragette W. S. P. U Sash Votes for Women
W.S.P.U Votes for Women sash. Date: circa 1908

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Votes for Women Pepper Pot

Suffragette Votes for Women Pepper Pot
A silver suffragette pepper pot or muffineer a small pot with a removable lid - the head of the figure. Holes in the bonnet dispense pepper or sugar

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Rush House of Commons Flyer 1908

Suffragette Rush House of Commons Flyer 1908. An original leaflet/flyer issued by the WSPU

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette W. S. P. U Christmas Card

Suffragette W. S. P. U Christmas Card
Suffragette W.S.P.U Christmas Card

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Militant Cat Fifi

Suffragette Militant Cat Fifi
A large white cat, hammer in her claws and a Votes for Women sash, addresses a group of toys on the necessity of militant action, not sure if the message is getting through Date: circa 1913

Background imageVotes Collection: Election poster, The Great Naval Eclipse

Election poster, The Great Naval Eclipse 1900 to 1910, a vote for the radicals is a vote against the British Navy. circa 1910s

Background imageVotes Collection: Anti-Suffrage Votes for Women Never

Anti-Suffrage Votes for Women Never!. Let the suffragists know that you simply will not have petticoat government for this old country and world-wide Empire Date: circa 1910

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Hunger Strike Medal Christmas Card

Suffragette Hunger Strike Medal Christmas Card. Votes for Women and lots of em. This Merry Christmas time is the caption above a silver Hunger Strike Medal

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Jack-in-the-Box Votes for Women

Suffragette Jack-in-the-Box Votes for Women
A suffragette Jack-in-the-Box with a bisque headed figure of a snarling woman. She has grey wiry hair which extends either side of a Tyrolean style hat with feather

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette My Valentine Card

Suffragette My Valentine Card

Background imageVotes Collection: Votes for women air balloon, 1909

Votes for women air balloon, 1909
Votes for women more in the air than ever: the suffragettes dirgible for the opening of Parliament

Background imageVotes Collection: First female to speak in the House of Commons

First female to speak in the House of Commons
Margaret Travers Symons (1879 - after 1951), suffragette, the first woman to speak in the House of Commons, who made her way in after running past policeman, Mr Idris into the chamber

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Grace Chappelow Votes for Women

Suffragette Grace Chappelow Votes for Women. Grace Chappelow (1884-1971), born in Hatfield Peverel, Nr Chelmsford, Essex. Shown selling and advertising Votes for Women newspaper

Background imageVotes Collection: Votes for Catharine Susan and Me

Votes for Catharine Susan and Me. Suffragette Childrens book, written and illustrated by Kathleen Ainslie. Come and join us. Date: 1910

Background imageVotes Collection: Voting on the National Health Service Act, 1948

Voting on the National Health Service Act, 1948
Counting of votes in the British Medical Association plebiscite on the National Health Service Act at BMA House, Tavistock Square, London. 1948

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Womens Freedom League Caravan

Suffragette Womens Freedom League Caravan. The Womens Freedom toured the South of England in a purpose built caravan, beginning in May 1908

Background imageVotes Collection: Adela Pankhurst Suffragette

Adela Pankhurst Suffragette. Miss. Adela Pankhurst (1885-1961) portrait, wearing white circular Votes for Women badge. Caption - Organiser National Womens Social and Political union. Date: circa 1908

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette, An Easter Prophecy

Suffragette, An Easter Prophecy. Suffragette hen with chick, rabbit and eggs

Background imageVotes Collection: Mary E Gawthorpe Suffragette

Mary E Gawthorpe Suffragette. Mary E Gawthorpe (1881-1973) portrait. Caption - Votes for Women, Miss. Mary Gawthorpe, Organiser National Womens Social and Political Union Date: circa 1907

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Prisoners Holloway

Suffragette Prisoners Holloway
Suffragette hunger strikers wave to Christabel Pankhurst, one holding a Votes for Women sash. Date: 1909

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragette Cat Votes for Women

Suffragette Cat Votes for Women. A cat in a jacket, hat and bow tie holds a Votes for Women card in its paw. Date: circa 1909

Background imageVotes Collection: Sudetenland Elections

Sudetenland Elections
Schoolgirls counting the votes during the Sudetenland elections, which had become part of the new Republic of Czechoslovakia in 1918 and included many German speakers

Background imageVotes Collection: Comic postcard, Suffragette hens campaigning for the vote Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, Suffragette hens campaigning for the vote Date: early 20th century

Background imageVotes Collection: Votes For Women 1907

Votes For Women 1907
Suffragists parade the vicinity of the various police courts with sandwich-boards, while representatives of the cause make demonstrations before the magistrates, protesting against man-made laws

Background imageVotes Collection: Christabel Pankhurst

Christabel Pankhurst (1880 - 1958), British suffragette born in Manchester. Co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Date: 1910

Background imageVotes Collection: Dundee's enthusiasm - Churchill after victory at polls

Dundee's enthusiasm - Churchill after victory at polls
Winston Churchill, his car surrounded by rejoicing crowds, returns to his hotel after winning the Dundee by-election in 1908. Note the Votes for Women placard in the background. Date: May 1908

Background imageVotes Collection: Cartoon -- Asquith half-promises to introduce votes for women - if the country agrees

Cartoon -- Asquith half-promises to introduce votes for women - if the country agrees... A parody of Burne-Jones's painting, King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid. Date: 1908

Background imageVotes Collection: Selection of suffragette banners 1908

Selection of suffragette banners 1908
Some of the 770 banners carried by suffragettes and suffragists as they marched from the embankment to the Royal Albert Hall

Background imageVotes Collection: Cartoon, Excelsior! (Suffragist as Sisyphus)

Cartoon, Excelsior! (Suffragist as Sisyphus)
Cartoon, Excelsior! A Suffragette depicted as Sisyphus pushing the large boulder of Womens Suffrage up the Parliament Hill

Background imageVotes Collection: Suffragettes Plain Things at Meeting

Suffragettes Plain Things at Meeting. A bevy of buck-toothed, grinning suffragettes applaud the speaker at a Votes for Women meeting

Background imageVotes Collection: Cartoon, The Political Cheap-Jack

Cartoon, The Political Cheap-Jack -- Benjamin Disraeli, portrayed as a conman at a country fair, wooing his Buckinghamshire constituents during the General Election campaign, summer 1847. 1847

Background imageVotes 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

Background imageVotes 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 imageVotes Collection: Police removing suffragettes chained to railings 1908

Police removing suffragettes chained to railings 1908
Police officers removing Edith New and Olivia Smith from the railings of 10. Downing Street

Background imageVotes Collection: Millicent Fawcett speaking at end of pilgrimage march, 1913

Millicent Fawcett speaking at end of pilgrimage march, 1913
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 imageVotes Collection: When Women Vote by Charles Dana Gibson

When Women Vote by Charles Dana Gibson
The Suffragettes as the creator of the Gibson Girls Sees Them. " When Women Vote: After dinner the girls will have to listen to politics"

Background imageVotes Collection: Cartoon, Women's Suffrage - John Bull and Mrs Bull

Cartoon, Women's Suffrage - John Bull and Mrs Bull
Political cartoon, Women's Suffrage - John Bull and Mrs Bull in conflict over the franchise Date: 1891

Background imageVotes Collection: Cartoon, Strike while the Iron's Hot! Women's Suffrage

Cartoon, Strike while the Iron's Hot! Women's Suffrage
Political cartoon, Strike while the Iron's Hot! Women's Suffrage Date: 1891

Background imageVotes Collection: Coal miners strike

Coal miners strike
The conference of the miners federation of Birmingham meeting to discuss the coal miners strike. The names, reading from left to right, are: Sitting--Mr. H. Duff, Mr. T. H. Cann, Mr. M. C. Kerrell

Background imageVotes Collection: Election map, How England has voted at the Elections'

Election map, How England has voted at the Elections'. With description, How England Has Voted at the Elections; The black squares show Unionist and the white Liberal and Labour

Background imageVotes Collection: Cartoon, The Stage Door of the Future

Cartoon, The Stage Door of the Future
Women's suffrage cartoon, The Stage Door of the Future, with stage door Johnnies waiting for women MPs to emerge from the House of Commons. Date: 1920

Background imageVotes Collection: Katharine (Kate) Louisa Russell

Katharine (Kate) Louisa Russell, Viscountess Amberley (nee Stanley, 1844-1874), British suffragist and early advocate of birth control

Background imageVotes Collection: Communist Party members voting

Communist Party members voting
Communist Party delegates (including Janey Glen from Yorkshire, centre) voting in London against American bases in Britain for Cruise missiles. Date: 1982

Background imageVotes Collection: Miners Ballot

Miners Ballot
At Snowdown colliery in Kent, a miner, having completed his shift underground, votes in a ballot on early retirement Date: 24 November 1980

Background imageVotes Collection: Peter Tatchell and others, Bermondsey by-election

Peter Tatchell and others, Bermondsey by-election
Peter Gary Tatchell (b 1952), Australian-born British political activist

Background imageVotes Collection: Keir Hardie, socialist politician, giving a speech, London

Keir Hardie, socialist politician, giving a speech, London
James Keir Hardie (1856-1915), Scottish socialist politician and labour leader, a founder of the Independent Labour Party and of the British Labour Party

Background imageVotes Collection: Joe Bent, Communist Party politician in Southwark, London

Joe Bent, Communist Party politician in Southwark, London
Joe Bent (Spencer John Bent) Communist Party politician in Southwark, south-east London. Seen here outside a Polling Station, talking with a voter

Background imageVotes Collection: Charlotte Despard, political activist and writer

Charlotte Despard, political activist and writer
Charlotte Despard, nee French (1844-1939), suffragette, novelist and Sinn Fein activist

Background imageVotes Collection: Carrying of the second reading of the first reform bill in the House of Commons

Carrying of the second reading of the first reform bill in the House of Commons. Date: 21 March 1831

Background imageVotes Collection: A Suffragette publicises a protest meeting by chalking it onto a pavement. Date: 1908

A Suffragette publicises a protest meeting by chalking it onto a pavement. Date: 1908

Background imageVotes Collection: Comic postcard, Two political candidates campaigning Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two political candidates campaigning Date: 20th century

Background imageVotes Collection: Comic postcard, Teddy bear suffragette and policeman

Comic postcard, Teddy bear suffragette and policeman. Come Along, Christabear! Date: 20th century

Background imageVotes Collection: Comic postcard, Votes for Women satire - We only want what the men have got

Comic postcard, Votes for Women satire - We only want what the men have got!! Date: 20th century

Background imageVotes 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 imageVotes 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 imageVotes Collection: Cartoon, The Handwriting on the Wall

Cartoon, The Handwriting on the Wall. King William IV wonders if the Reform Bill has anything to do with him

Background imageVotes Collection: Christabel Pankhurst

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

Background imageVotes 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

Background imageVotes Collection: Christabel Pankhurst defending herself in court 1908

Christabel Pankhurst defending herself in court 1908
Christabel Pankhurst shown defending the " rush" on the House of Commons and her role in it at Bow Street Magistrates Court, London

Background imageVotes 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

Background imageVotes Collection: Women recording votes for the General Election 1955

Women recording votes for the General Election 1955
Women recording the General Election votes, 26 May 1955, in Brixton town hall, London

Background imageVotes 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

Background imageVotes 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



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