Collection items

Cartoon depicting force-feeding from The Daily Her...

Periodical, Illustration, Image

This satirical cartoon, which appeared on the front page of the Daily Herald on 24 May 1913, depicts Home Secretary Regi...

Cartoon of Queen Victoria as Queen of India, from ...

Periodical, Image

This cartoon, from the satirical magazine Punch, depicts a young Queen Victoria wearing coronation robes and holding a s...

Custodia Honesta pamphlet

Pamphlet

By 1912, the treatment of women imprisoned for taking part in militant action was causing a national stir. The nation wa...

Map for a Suffragette march, June 1911

Periodical, Image

This map for the 1911 Women’s Coronation Procession shows the contingent of Indian women, as well as groups from the Emp...

Maud Arncliffe Sennett's scrapbook, volume 1

Ephemera, Image, Illustration, Scrapbook Created date: February - July 1907

Created by suffrage campaigner Maud Arncliffe Sennett, this scrapbook is part of a wider series that provides a unique a...

Maud Arncliffe Sennett's scrapbook, volume 5

Ephemera, Illustration, Image, Photograph, Scrapbook Created date: 22 August - 31 October 1908

Created by suffrage campaigner Maud Arncliffe Sennett, this scrapbook is part of a wider series that provides a unique a...

Newspaper article about Sophia Duleep Singh’s tria...

Newspaper, Photograph, Image

One of Sophia Duleep Singh’s most significant contributions to the Suffragette cause was her role as a tax resister. Dul...

NUWSS pamphlets

Pamphlet

These leaflets were produced between 1912 and 1914 by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). Led by M...

Photograph of Christabel Pankhurst

Photograph, Image Created date: c. 1912 - 1916

This photograph shows Christabel Pankhurst in exile, avoiding the risk of arrest in Britain. She sits in her office in...

Photograph of Emily Davison

Photograph, Image Created date: c. 1909

This photograph of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was released after her death in 1913. At the Epsom Derby in June 19...

Photograph of Emmeline Pankhurst

Photograph, Image Created date: c. 1906 - 1914

Emmeline Pankhurst is shown in this photograph, flanked by police officers, during the WSPU’s (Women’s Social and Polit...

Photograph of Indian Suffragettes on the Women's C...

Photograph, Image Created date: 17 June 1911

This photograph was taken on 17 June 1911 at the Women’s Coronation Procession. Women’s suffrage societies had organised...

Photograph of Kitty Marion selling Birth Control R...

Photograph, Image Created date: 1915

Katharina Maria Schafer adopted the name Kitty Marion when she moved from Germany to London in 1889, where she found wor...

Photograph of Millicent Fawcett

Photograph, Image Created date: c. 1900

This photograph shows Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, who chaired the NUWSS (National Union of Women's Suffrage Societie...

Photograph of Sophia Duleep Singh selling The Suff...

Photograph, Image

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, daughter of Maharaja Duleep Singh, was a prominent suffragette and member of the Women’s S...