Suffragettes - A collection of contemporary documents complied by Jackdaw Publications, London. Includes notes, posters, cartoons, broadsheets, 1820-1981

Containers:

Box 69

Component identifier:

File 429

Content Summary:

Scope and contents: File includes Women in Revolt: The Fight for Emancipation – A collection of contemporary documents compiled by Judith Kazantzis, Jackdaw Publications, No.49, London. Contents include: minutes of a meeting of the Medical Schools Committee of the Middlesex Hospital; "Women's Rights, 1981": a Victorian cotton-print; letter from a Newham College student to her sister; leaflet advocating votes for women; note smuggled from Holloway Prison from a hunger striker; pages from the Daily Sketch; notice issued by Scotland Yard concerning wanted suffragettes; "Panko": a card game; photographs from the catalogue of the Sweated Industries Exhibition (1906); seven broadsheets. The Vote: 1832-1928 – A collection of contemporary documents compiled and edited by John Langon-Davies, Jackdaw Publications, No.16, London. Contents include: three cartoons showing elections before reform; coloured print Westminster hustings 1820; broadsheet satirising the Whig and Tory clash over the Reform Bill of 1832; Chartist manifesto of 1842; poll card for Middlesex election 1868; print of 1868 against exclusion of workers from the vote; suffragettes arrested; Reform Act chart; six broadsheets.

Also included is Shoulder to Shoulder - A Full Illustrated Guide to the New BBCtv Series; undated.

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