Suffrage HQ

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The shirtwaist was the wardrobe staple of working girls. But also of more extravagant women, Laces, ribbons and extra materials were used by women of the wealthier class. This was the first time that women could choose each piece of thier ensemble. It was even possible to have each piece from a different shop.
This surveillance photo of the suffragette prisoner Frieda Graham was taken as she exercised in the yard of Holloway Gaol. Such photos were used to identify militant suffragettes attempting to enter public buildings such as museums or art galleries. Frieda was imprisoned several times for militant activity. In May 1914 she received a six-month sentence for damaging five paintings at the National Gallery, but was released on 5 June after hunger striking and being force-fed.
Tinted photo of an Edwardian woman

costume

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The woman's hour has struck...tick tock, tick tock until November 6th!
A postcard, captioned 'The Appeal of Womanhood', designed by Harold Bird to announce an anti-suffrage meeting at the Royal Albert Hall

Posters/Flyers

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Suffragette Dr Marion Philips, Labour Party politician and elected Member of Parliament for Sunderland in 1929 - UK - 1908

WSUP shop/press

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Suffragette hankerchief in green, white and purple, the colours most associated with the Women's Social and Political Union., one of the main Suffragette organisations under the leadership of Emmeline Pankhurst. On display in Scotland a Changing National at National Museum of Scotland.
The Childrens Museum of Indianapolis - Votes for women pennant - Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Designed by Sylvia Pankhurst, this silver Holloway brooch c. 1908 incorporates a silver portcullis, representing parliament, with a central, enamel convict's arrow in the suffragette colours of purple, white and green. The brooch was awarded by the Women's Social and Political Union to members who served a period of imprisonment for their militant suffragette activity.

Props (pins, brooch)

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Suffragette Card Game 1)—The card game called “Suffragette” was developed by the Kensington branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union (always creative in their production of suffrage memorabilia) and first promoted in the November 1907 issue of the WSPU journal, Votes for Women. It could possibly be the first suffrage card game on either side of the Atlantic. It could be played as a “round” game or in sides—the Suffragettes versus the anti-Suffragettes.
“Suffragetto”: a Suffragettes vs. Police Board Game Rediscovered After 100 Years | Suffrajitsu
here was another English board game, this made of paper, called “Suffragettes In and Out of Prison,” which was essentially the same type of game as the first. Copyrighted by a private manufacturer, Whitworth Hird Ltd. of London, the object was for players to work themselves out of the large maze of Holloway Prison by casting a die and moving counters. On the back of the board was an advertisement for “The Morning Leader,” a newspaper of the period.

board games

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Catapult [slingshot] used to shoot stones at windows. From November 1911, window smashing became a tactic of the militant WSPU. Over 200 women were arrested, many sentenced to up to two months in Holloway Gaol. The policy was intended to cause such disruption that the government would be forced to give in to the suffragettes' demands. Unfortunately the policy failed to change the government's position and often alienated public opinion against the cause.

Weapons

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