Violet, Countess of Onslow, became commandant of Clandon Park when it became a war hospital caring for wounded soldiers until 1919. Learn more about Violet’s war work & her links to the Women’s Suffrage campaign https://t.co/ZBid4rjQaR

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3) May Sinclair (1863-1946)

Author and Suffragette, May Sinclair is a lesser known writer (again) but she's having a bit of Renaissance! She wrote two volumes of supernatural tales - Uncanny Stories (1923) and The Intercessor (1931). Check out the upcoming BL collection!

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Yay it’s It would be easy to post a picture of our suffragette book and celebrate how far we’ve come.
But for some reason my mind is too crowded, too weighed down with all of the things going on around us
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Part of a 'Votes for Wimmin' series of anti-suffrage postcards illustrated by cartoonist Cobb Shinn and published in New York between 1912-13.

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JK Rowling got angry at a meme telling transphobes to shut up, so she compared it to torturing suffragettes. Because of course she did.

Awestruck by the level of ego it must take for Rowling to compare her war on trans people to the freaking suffragette movement.

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New artwork for sale! - "Suffragette Kitty " - https://t.co/LT1kp3kpjT

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in 1918, the women of Ireland, Mná na hÉireann, were granted suffrage and first cast their ballots in the 1918 election. In 2018, Hon. MRIA Eavan Boland (1944-2020) wrote a poem to mark the centenary: https://t.co/9dTdtrE4oK

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This satirical cartoon, which appeared on the front page of the Daily Herald on 24 May 1913, depicts Home Secretary Reginald McKenna using a bucket and funnel to force-feed a blindfolded and bound suffragette.

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No Surrender publication day is just two weeks away!

It’s a graphic novel about the suffrage movement, based on a story written by a woman who was there, living through it.

Pre-order from your nearest real bookseller or request it at the public library for maximum social impact

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This satirical cartoon, which appeared on the front page of the Daily Herald on 24 May 1913, depicts Home Secretary Reginald McKenna using a bucket and funnel to force-feed a blindfolded and bound suffragette.

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capo alfie!! apollonia alfredo and her unofficially adopted daughter miele senpe <3 ive never actually drawn their stands (suffragette city and danzig i/ii/iii respectively) so i need to nail down those designs

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“Women, we must do the work ourselves. We must have an independent women’s movement...”

The Women’s Social and Political Union - the leading women’s suffrage campaign group - was formed 1903 at the home of the Pankhursts.

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This week we have seen people arrested for expressing views in public: republicanism, seeking consequences/acknowledgement of crimes - nothing violent or dangerous

How would our modern establishment have responded to the suffragettes of whom they seem so proud?

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