Blank postcard (No.163) produced by the Museum of London in 1993. The front features a black and white photograph of Princess Sophia Duleep Singh holding a copy of The Suffragette newspaper.
Collection Items
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Poster: Torturing Women in Prison
Framed reproduction of a poster published by the WSPU in Votes for Women newspaper on 29th October 1909, depicting the forcible feeding of a suffragette prisoner.
Print: To the Dear Love of Comrades: in Memory of Flora Murray
Framed digital pigment fine art print on paper by Glasgow-based artist Fiona Dean, celebrating the life and work of Flora Murray, a medical doctor and an active and prominent member of the WSPU.
They Went To Prison; The Suffragette Fellowship
Slim document titled ‘They Went to Prison’ featuring a photograph captioned ‘A Suffragette In Prison Being Force Fed (about 1914)’ and a roll of honour of suffragette prisoners from 1905 to 1914.
Suffragette Pennies
Defacing coins was a criminal act that could lead to a prison sentence. Using small change meant that the coin was more likely to remain in circulation for years. A few coins with ‘VOTES FOR WOMEN’ hand stamped over the king’s head have been attributed to the suffragette movement but many fakes are in circulation.
Pro- and Anti-Women’s Suffrage Postcards
The years spanning the height of militant suffrage activism coincided with ‘The Golden Age of Postcards’ (1900-1918). New technologies in printing and photography, changes in regulatory restrictions and the standardisation […]
John Bull print: Sermons in Stones
‘John Bull (to Non-militant Suffragist): “I could listen more attentively, Madam, to your pleas, were it not for these concrete arguments which I find rather distracting.” ‘
Sculpture: In the Hands of the Proletariat
Polished stones marked with the words ‘In the hands of the proletariat’ made for the ‘Our Red Aunt exhibition at GWL by New Zealand-based artist Fiona Jack, the great grand-niece of Scottish activist and suffragette Helen Crawfurd.
Postcard: This is “THE HOUSE” that man built (Pro)
B.B. London Series no. E.23: captioned “This is “THE HOUSE” that man built, And these are the Members who’ve been sitting late Coming out arm in arm, from a lengthy […]
Postcard: This Is “The House” That Man Built (Anti)
B.B. London Series No. E.19: captioned “THIS IS “THE HOUSE” THAT MAN BUILT, AND this is the policeman all tattered and torn, Who wished women voters had never been born, […]