Printed Ephemera — 1912
Men & Women Come to Hyde Park
Printed handbill annoncing a meeting to be held in Hyde Park on Sunday 14 July 1912 to demand women's enfranchisement on equal terms as men. The event that took place on Bastille Day, also the birthday of Emmeline Pankhurst's birthday, was organised by Sylvia Pankhurst and Flora Drummond in co-operation with other suffrage societies and the Independent Labour Party in protest against the second reading of the government's despised Franchise and Registration Bill. During the demonstration red caps of liberty were placed on top of banners for the first time. Leading ILP members such Keir Hardie and George Lansbury took their place on the speaker's podium alongside Suffragettes including Sylvia Pankhurst and Georgina Brackenbury. The demonstration signalled the emerging division in the policy of Sylvia Pankhurst and her sister Christabel who aimed to distance the WSPU from the ILP.
- Category:
- Printed Ephemera
- Object ID:
- 50.82/674
- Object name:
- Men & Women Come to Hyde Park
- Artist/Maker:
- Women's Social and Political Union
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- Production date:
- 1912
- Material:
- paper, ink
- Measurements/duration:
- H 220 mm, W 142 mm
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- Record quality:
- 100%
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- Copyright holder:
- digital image © London Museum
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