Women’s suffrage

Awarded to women imprisoned in Holloway for militant suffragette activity, by the Women’s Social and Political Union.

Awarded by the Women’s Social and Political Union to those suffragettes who had gone on hunger strike during their imprisonment.

Suffragette group active from 1909 until 1918, encouraging woman to protest against their disenfranchisement by refusing to pay taxes.

March in 1913 by suffragists from all over England Wales to London, in support of the campaign for votes for women.

Black Friday was a suffragette demonstration in London on 18 November 1910, in which 300 women marched to the Houses of Parliament as part of their campaign to secure voting rights.