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Clipping : "Suffragettes Fight Policemen All Night / Send Augustine Birrell to bed badly crippled and beaten, smash many windows." [November 23, 1910]
Account of rioting by suffragists in England, where women stormed the home of Prime Minister Asquith, smashed windows in the homes of members of Parliament, and attacked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Augustine Birrell. 156 women were reportedly…
Clipping : "Suffragettes Mob Premier Asquith / Hundred women arrested during riot following assault on prime minister." [November 23, 1910]
Account of attack on the Prime Minister H.H. Asquith by suffragists following a session in the House of Commons where he made a campaign promise to postpone discussion of a suffrage bill until the next parliament. Rioting and violence continued…
Clipping : "Petticoat War Again in England / Militant Suffragettes Reopen Hostilities on Houses of Parliament and furnish Amusement of Some of the U.S. Sailors." [November 18, 1910]
Account of a suffrage demonstration on Parliament in England led by Emmeline Pankhurst. 82 suffragists and supporters were arrested after bypassing a police cordon and making it to Prime Minister Asquith to demand introduction of the woman suffrage…
Clipping : "English Suffragette Leader Now In America." [October 22, 1909]
Photographs with captions:
"Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, English Suffragette Leader who Arrived in New York Yesterday for a Lecture Tour of the United States"
"Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, President of the Legion of Self-Supporting Women, and…
"Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, English Suffragette Leader who Arrived in New York Yesterday for a Lecture Tour of the United States"
"Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, President of the Legion of Self-Supporting Women, and…
Clipping : "American Women Decry Sensational Suffrage Campaign." [March 2, 1908]
Account of the disagreement between suffragists over the types of methods that should be employed to achieve their goals. Bettina Borrman Wells, of London England, advocates for militant methods to achieve women's suffrage and Harriet Stanton Blatch,…
Clipping : The Woman Suffrage Campaign in England. The International Yearbook : a compendium of the world's progress. 1909
Clipping shows two photographs with captions:
The first, "Officials of the Women's Social and Political Union at Clement's Inn" is a photograph of five women gathered around a table reviewing documents. The women are, from left to right: Flora…
The first, "Officials of the Women's Social and Political Union at Clement's Inn" is a photograph of five women gathered around a table reviewing documents. The women are, from left to right: Flora…
Votes for Women, Vol. 2. January-February 1909
Votes for Women was launched and co-edited by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and her husband, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence in 1907. The journal began as the official publication of the militant suffrage organization, the Women’s Social and Political Union…
Pinback button : National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies." [Circa 1900-1910]
Red, green and white pinback button with the name of the organization, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. The NUWSS was founded in Great Britain in 1897 by the merger of the National Central Society for Women's Suffrage and the Central…
Ceramic tobacco jar : I say : Down with the Trousers. [Circa 1905-1915]
Ceramic tobacco jar with a removable head in the shape of a woman with large eyes and an open mouth. She is wearing the purple, green, and white colors of the Women's Social and Political Union on her hat and the sash on her shoulder.
Inscribed…
Inscribed…
Stanhope novelty telescope : portrait of Mary Clarke, Women's Social and Political Union [Circa 1905-1910]
Miniature telescope, made of brass-like metal with a black leather sheath. Stanhopes were novelty souvenirs popular during the 19th century. The image can be seen by holding it up to the light and looking into the tiny hole.
British suffragist,…
British suffragist,…