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1902Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories
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1904Sherlock Holmes
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1908Christabel Pankhurst
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1912Captain Scott's Diary
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1913G. B. Shaw's Pygmalion
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1914Suffragettes protest
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1917Wilfred Owen: WWI poetry
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1925Art in poetry
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1925Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
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1928Nottinghamshire dialect
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1929BBC English
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1939Wanted poster for Hitler
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1939World War II ultimatum letter
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1943Make Do and Mend
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1948Immigration from India
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1955Chinese restaurants
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1959Paul Robeson's Othello
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1960Sylvia Plath
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1964The Beatles in the USA
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1969Man lands on the moon
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1970Women's liberation magazine
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1973J.G. Ballard, Crash
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1976Punk fanzine
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1976The Sex Pistols
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1984J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
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1991Angela Carter, Wise Children
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Intro
In their fight for women's voting rights, the Suffragettes were notorious for publicity-grabbing militant action, and were more than willing to break the law to raise awareness for the cause. This was one of many arrests of their figurehead Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928). In May 1914, her group marched to Buckingham Palace to see the King. She dodged the police and almost made it to the palace gates. There she was arrested in what the Daily Mirror called 'distressing scenes'.
Reflecting the establishment view, the paper called them 'militant suffragettes' with an 'impossible scheme'. But four years and one Great War later, a proportion of women were granted the vote, leading to full enfranchisement in 1928. The Suffragette struggle for the vote coincided with the growth of mass-circulation newspapers and the use of press photography. Just as today's protestors harness the power of television, so the suffragettes understood the power of the press.
Image Copyright: John Frost Newspaper Archive.
Shelfmark: British Library Newspaper Archive.
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