# hkgov universalsuffrage onthisday flashbackfriday feministfriday sistersuffragette votesforwomen brighton skateboarding skatergirl suffragette 19thamendment 100years illustration surrey otd wbyeats mayo votingday votingmatters electionday ethelsmyth womensart vintageads art illustrations suffragettes fridaycollection exploreyourarchive

already started to retrict the power of district councilors. The game is never fair, and our enemy too dirty. Universal suffrage is necessary in Hong Kong to resolve this

18 40
2020-02-10

7 Feb 1971, women in Switzerland win the right to vote in federal elections after a national referendum.

Snail pic is from a suffrage protest in 1928.

29 40
2020-02-07

Bravo Lady Heath! The women of the early 20th century were remarkable - suffragettes, activists, artists, scientists, adventurers - they had to fight so hard. We stand on the shoulders of giants. I loved researching their stories for Blazing a Trail - Lady Heath is in there!

7 29
2020-02-03

Finishing off this part of catching my Twitter up with this. Made it because I’m thinking of doing a more serious comic next of our ineffable fam in the suffragette movement.

0 2
2020-02-02

Indian soldiers recuperating at the Royal Pavilion, Suffragettes, conscientious objectors & much more Graphic War focuses on the impact of WW1 on home life. Special offer a complimentary copy of Tale of A Boy Soldier. https://t.co/JfoXKeBuNj

4 4
2020-01-28

On my way to ! Can’t wait. Whenever I go on business trips and leave John and Pal at home, I like to text John suffrage cartoons.

44 590
2020-01-24

Les suffragettes étaient forcément des femmes frustrées car pas mariée. Ou alors mal-aimées, manipulatrices et ne savaient pas cuisiner comme les "vraies" femmes.

10 53
2020-01-09

Our march is over! This is our final tweet for the project. Future stories will be posted . Heartfelt thanks to all our volunteers, staff & supporters of the last 2yrs who have helped reveal Surrey’s suffrage story

14 49
2019-12-30

i saw this amazing anti-suffragette postcard and simply had to redraw it 🙊

15786 55524
2019-12-25

1866: Birth near Farnham, Surrey, England of Edith Maud Gonne. Suffragette, actress, agitator for Irish Home Rule & muse! Family from Co affected by plight evicted in Land Wars. Son winner Seán MacBride. Buried Glasnevin. https://t.co/TezhT4NbwA

5 8
2019-12-21

“That women should have the suffrage, I think no one can be more deeply convinced than I... but it will probably be years before you obtain it.” Flo was right; it wasn’t until 1928 that women over 21 were finally given the vote. Use your vote today!

7 18
2019-12-12

Today I’m wearing this lovely badge ‘votes for women’ that my sister gave me. The original tin badge was designed by Sylvia Pankhurst for the Suffragette campaign.

4 24
2019-12-12

It seems very appropriate to be writing about and the women's movement today.

4 23
2019-12-12

'Holloway Prison brooch' designed by Sylvia Pankhurst as a medal of honour for British suffragettes who had been imprisoned and tortured in their fight for women's suffrage

188 585
2019-12-12

By the mid-1910s American Illustrator Rose O'Neill (1874-1944) was reported to be the highest paid woman illustrator in the business. She also played a noted advocacy role in the campaign for women's suffrage, achieved in 1920.

3 11
2019-12-06

Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877-1952) was a painter and active suffragette.

0 0
2019-11-30

Four dynamic All statues unveiled in the past two years - boosting the UK tally of named (i.e. real - not nymphs, saints or queens) women in bronze. Who's next? Some thoughts on why this matters: https://t.co/yGlbjMyZcW

14 26
2019-11-30

The imprisonment of The Suffragettes brought attention & reform to women's prisons, leading to abolishment of hard labour and flogging

These images from show prison downtime of games and reading

Images: Hall Hill & Holloway

4 9
2019-11-30

The Lady of the Dark Flowers
portrait of artist & sculptor Hazel Armour (1894-1985)

and Scottish Women's Hospitals WWI medal designed by Hazel Armour & commissioned by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
https://t.co/YYXdhoQiyu

3 9
2019-11-27