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Direct Action Collection

Background imageDirect Action Collection: Suffragettes armed with materials to chain themselves to railings, 1909

Suffragettes armed with materials to chain themselves to railings, 1909. The Suffragettes found that by chaining themselves to railings they could gain much needed time to deliver their speeches

Background imageDirect Action Collection: A mass of spectators at the Monument, London, 18 April 1913

A mass of spectators at the Monument, London, 18 April 1913. Crowds gathered around the Monument after it had been captured by two suffragettes

Background imageDirect Action Collection: Suffragettes trying to speak to the Prime Minister, London, 1908

Suffragettes trying to speak to the Prime Minister, London, 1908. Olive Fergus (left) and Mrs Frank Corbet flank Prime Minister Herbert Asquith (1852-1928)

Background imageDirect Action Collection: Christabel Pankhurst waving to the hunger strikers from a house overlooking Holloway Prison, 1909

Christabel Pankhurst waving to the hunger strikers from a house overlooking Holloway Prison, 1909. Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958) was one of the leaders of the British suffragette movement

Background imageDirect Action Collection: The Human Letters dispatched by Jessie Kenney to Mr Asquith at 10 Downing Street, London, 1909

The Human Letters dispatched by Jessie Kenney to Mr Asquith at 10 Downing Street, London, 1909. Part of the campaign by the suffragette movement to win the vote for women

Background imageDirect Action Collection: Ejection of a woman questioner from City Temple, London, 12 November 1908. Artist

Ejection of a woman questioner from City Temple, London, 12 November 1908. Artist
Ejection of a woman questioner from City Temple, London, 12 November 1908. The woman was ejected for interrupting a speech given by Augustine Birrell

Background imageDirect Action Collection: The Womens Freedom League attempting to enter the House of Commons, London, 1908

The Womens Freedom League attempting to enter the House of Commons, London, 1908. On 28 October, as part of the campaign to secure the vote for women

Background imageDirect Action Collection: Arrest of leading suffragettes, London, 13 October 1908

Arrest of leading suffragettes, London, 13 October 1908. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958) and Flora Drummond (1878-1949) being read the warrant for their arrest

Background imageDirect Action Collection: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, British suffragettes, London, 12 October 1908

Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, British suffragettes, London, 12 October 1908. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) and her daughter Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958)


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