Parliament and Suffragettes Dr Mari Takayanagi, Parliamentary Archives Open Lecture, June 2013 First petition presented to Parliament 1832 House of Commons Parliamentary Debates Women’s suffrage petition from the Mistresses of Dulwich High School, presented to House of Lords, 1884 House of Lords Main Papers, Parliamentary Archives © Palace of Westminster Suffragists • National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (1897) – Petitioning – Lobbying – Marching Millicent Fawcett Palace of Westminster Works of Art reference collection © Palace of Westminster NUWSS pin badge Metal 2.5cm diameter WOA S745 © Palace of Westminster Suffragettes: WSPU • Women’s Social & Political Union (1903) – Militant and violent – Campaigns against people and property, including in Parliament Emmeline Pankhurst Parliamentary Archives, Stow Hill Collection © Palace of Westminster Daily Graphic, 25 Oct 1906 Palace of Westminster Art reference collection © Palace of Westminster Police in the Palace House of Commons Terrace photographed by Benjamin Stone MP c1897 Parliamentary Archives, HC/LB/1/111/9/11 (detail) © Palace of Westminster Sir H David Erskine Chief Inspector Charles Scantlebury Serjeant at Arms 1885-1915 Private Collection Parliamentary Art Collection Reproduced with kind permission from Celia Clark WOA 4174 www.scantlebury.talktalk.net Chief Inspector Scantlebury's report to the Serjeant, 18 Nov 1910 ('Black Friday') Parliamentary Archives, HC/SA/SJ/10/12/31 © Palace of Westminster Holloway medal awarded to Emmeline Pankhurst Silver with silk ribbon WOA M0564 Obverse: bar at top of ribbon 'Holloway', bar at bottom of ribbon 'Oct 8th 08, the medal H.2 4' (Hospital block, 2nd floor, cell 4) and silver mark (London 1908). Reverse: 'Mrs Pankhurst' surrounded by a laurel wreath. © Palace of Westminster Holloway Prison brooch Silver WOA S694 Designed by Sylvia Pankhurst. Awarded to members of the WSPU who had been imprisoned. © Palace of Westminster Suffragettes: WFL • Women’s Freedom League (1907) – Militant but non- violent – Non-co-operation with authority, passive resistance Charlotte Despard Daily Graphic © Palace of Westminster Grille incident: Suffragette Banner unfurled from the House of Commons Ladies’ Gallery, October 1908 Parliamentary Archives © Palace of Westminster Drawing of the Ladies' Gallery, House of Commons, published in the Illustrated London News, 12 February 1870 Palace of Westminster WOA 3938 © Palace of Westminster Grille incident Illustrated London News, Nov 1908 Police report, Parliamentary Archives © Palace of Westminster Emily Wilding Davison • WSPU member • Also acted independently • Targeted Parliament • Banned from building Memorial leaflet, Parliamentary Archives © Palace of Westminster Emily Wilding Davison in Parliament's police reports © Palace of Westminster James William Lowther (1855-1949), Speaker from 1905-10, 1911-18, 1919-21 WOA 7089 Letter from the Speaker to the Serjeant, banning Emily Wilding Davison from the building 24 June 1910 Parliamentary Archives, HC/SA/SJ/10/12/27A © Palace of Westminster Emily Wilding Davison hides in crypt chapel on census night ©The National Archives Leaflet on forcible feeding, thrown into the House of Commons chamber in 1913 Suffragette file Parliamentary Archives © Palace of Westminster ‘Cat & Mouse’ Act 1913 Original Acts, Parliamentary Archives © Palace of Westminster Representation of the People Act 1918 Original Acts, Parliamentary Archives © Palace of Westminster Nancy Langhorne, Viscountess Astor (1879- 1964) By Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl Plaster (painting to resemble terracotta) WOA S221 First woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons. She represented Plymouth Sutton 1919- 45. © Palace of Westminster Equal Franchise Act 1928 Original Acts, Parliamentary Archives © Palace of Westminster Portrait of Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda (1883-1958) by Alice Mary Burton WOA 7177 Life Peerages Act 1958 Parliamentary Archives © Palace of Westminster More at: www.parliament.uk/women Contact: [email protected] [email protected] Facebook & Twitter: @UKParlArchives .