The Suffragette Leaders General Flora Drummond, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Christabel Pankhurst, Women's Sunday, 21st June 1908.

The Suffragette leaders 'General' Flora Drummond, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Christabel Pankhurst, Women's Sunday, 21st June 1908. Here Christabel is seen in her academic robes, whilst Flora Drummond can be seen, from behind, wearing her distinctive purple, white and green 'General's cap for the first time. Women's Sunday was the first 'monster meeting' to be organised by the Women's Social and Political Union. Specially chartered trains transported thousands of suffragettes from all over Britain to march in seven processions through central London to a rally in Hyde Park. Here 20 temporary platforms were erected in a circle for 80 speakers to address the crowds, each chaired by a different Suffragette leader including the three depicted here. The highly choreographed demonstration attracted a crowd of up to 300,000 drawn by the colourful spectacle of the delegates dressed in the suffragette tricolour and carrying over seven hundred embroidered banners. ‘Never’, reported the Daily Chronicle, has so vast a throng gathered in London to witness a parade of political forces’.