Social History — 1909-1910
Badge
Tin badge designed by Sylvia Pankhurst for the suffragette campaign. Incorporating the purple, white and green colour-scheme of the Women's Social and Political Union, the design depicts a woman breaking free: stepping through a gate with iron bars and heavy chains, carrying a 'Votes for Women' streamer.
By 1909 the Women's Social and Political Union was commissioning a wide range of badges, brooches, pendants, pins and hatpins. The sale of such items raised funds for the campaign and helped to promote the Votes for Women cause.
- Category:
- Social History
- Object ID:
- 77.166/3
- Object name:
- badge
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Pankhurst, Estelle Sylvia
- Related people:
Women's Social and Political Union, Pankhurst, Estelle Sylvia
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- Production date:
- 1909-1910
- Material:
- tin, iron, paper, plastic
- Measurements/duration:
- DM 30 mm
- Part of:
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- On display:
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- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
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- Credit:
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- Copyright holder:
- digital image © London Museum
- Image credit:
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- Creative commons usage:
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- License this image:
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