- I wonder what this was about. Only found this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Isaacs,_1st_Marquess_of_Reading - Lilorfnannie
- From Oxford DNB: Isaacs, Rufus Daniel, first marquess of Reading (1860–1935), politician and judge- "Isaacs prosecuted the militant suffragette Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst for conspiracy to commit injury and damage (though he personally favoured votes for women)." (1912). - M.J.S.
Angleterre Suffragette
Accession Number: 1975:0112:2134
Maker: Ch. Chusseau-Flaviens
Title: Angleterre Suffragette
Date: ca. 1900-1919
Medium: negative, gelatin on glass
Dimensions: 12 x 9 cm.
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rosewithoutathorn84 (55 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historic Heroines, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Copper Kettle (54 months ago | reply)
Английская суфражистка
Copper Kettle (54 months ago | reply)
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Kate_A (54 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called DIG-Equality, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
ART NAHPRO (53 months ago | reply)
This was taken in Trafalgar Square probably just in front of the South African Embassy (South Africa House). The building in the upper right is still standing. The Strand would be immediately to the left and Whitehall behind the approaching (No 8?) bus.
Here is a shot of South Africa House in the 1920s
writtersrightword (45 months ago | reply)
An amazing woman.
evanesca101 (43 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called 1910s Fashion, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Sir Henry Percy (42 months ago | reply)
Art Nahpro, I think you're right. I recognise it as the spot where the Anti-Apartheid Movement held its permanent protest picket outside South Africa House in the years up to the fall of the old regime. Clearly there is something in those particular paving stones that calls people to protest for the advance of democratic rights. Not sure the Met would let you do it nowadays, of course.
ART NAHPRO (42 months ago | reply)
Yes..the protests there were a real fixture of London life..I read somewhere that the S African authorities were genuinely disturbed and upset over the years by the persistence of the protesters...
Leonard Bentley (3 months ago | reply)
Hi,
The suffragette is selling the 'Votes for Women' newspaper outside Morley's Hotel in Trafalgar Square, in the background is the newly built Admiralty Arch and the entrance to the new Trafalgar Square underground station. The 'Votes for Women' newspaper was one of several suffragette newspapers published during the early years of the 20th century, this particular edition which paraphrased the Solicitor General at the time, was published on Friday 29th April 1910.