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Happy Holidays from The Suffrage Postcard Project!
#SuffrageAdvent #Christmas #twitterstorians #holidayseason #VotesForWomen
I hope you've enjoyed #SuffrageAdvent. 2018 is going to be an amazing year.
100 years since some women got the vote. ONLY 100 YEARS!
So much to celebrate, so much to do.
#SuffrageAdvent No.24:
'AT LAST'
Cartoon from Punch Magazine published January 1918
#SuffrageAdvent No.23: Another game to play at Christmas - Panko!
https://t.co/XTRnvoihLu
#SuffrageAdvent No.22: It's my birthday! Who's that knocking at my door? Its womanhood(!) with her gifts of course!
'A MEETING will be held'
(at my birthday party for awesome feminists)
Many pro-suffrage and anti-suffrage organisations printed a variety of #holiday #postcards, including for #Christmas
Check out more: https://t.co/cuC1VkQAo3 #twitterstorians #SuffrageAdvent
#SuffrageAdvent No.21: On this day 1912 the Daily Express reports Suffragettes cutting telephone wires in Birmingham with the headline 'MAD FEMALES'
#SuffrageAdvent No.20: Something to play at Christmas - Pank-a-Squith the 1909 WSPU board game. Race from home to Parliament, smashing windows and avoiding arrest along the way!
#SuffrageAdvent No.19: On this day in 1908 Emmeline & Christabel Pankhurst and Mary Leigh were released from Holloway prison and met by a carriage escorted by two bands, women riding white horses and 200 women in white dresses.
#SuffrageAdvent No.18: From the @womensliblondon banners collection, a goose delivers votes and wishes you a Happy New Year. Obv.
#SuffrageAdvent No.17: I know little about this Christmas card but I like it. A greeting from the Alps for votes for women of England. Found here https://t.co/NHwVelTk3y
#SuffrageAdvent No.16: Turkey or goose on 25th Dec? This goose is by Mary Sargant Florence of the Artists' Suffrage League
#SuffrageAdvent No.15: Today in 1911 Emily Wilding Davison set 3 postboxes ablaze -
"I let the packet, now well alight, go down the receptacle, & threw the matches in afterwards. I then quietly walked on down Fleet Street & turned into the first Lyons I came to to get lunch"
#SuffrageAdvent No.14: The Actresses’ Franchise League was founded in December 1908. Many leading Edwardian actresses joined inc Ellen Terry and Edith Craig seen here in winter furs.
#SuffrageAdvent No.13: Bit of a cheat, but here the festively named Mrs Snow makes pastry. 1 of a series of postcards in response to criticism that suffragettes were neglecting their roles of housewife and mother
This is my absolute favourite #SuffrageAdvent so far PLUS so pleased @RoyalAlbertHall have a brilliant season 'Women & the hall' in 2018 https://t.co/G3VuyoZ8KH https://t.co/QW7ZfyOSlM
#SuffrageAdvent no.12: 'Suffragettes riot' - Reported on this day in Dec 1908, women protest a speech by Lloyd George in @RoyalAlbertHall and Helen Ogston made news around the world as 'The Woman with the Whip'
#SuffrageAdvent no.12: 'Suffragettes riot' - Reported on this day in Dec 1908, women protest a speech by Lloyd George in @RoyalAlbertHall and Helen Ogston made news around the world as 'The Woman with the Whip'
#SuffrageAdvent No.11: A very unpleasant cartoon in the @Mary_Evans pic library, 'Christmas Dinner in Holloway' by Lawson Wood. Policemen force feed a handcuffed suffragette Christmas pudding
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