Extract 2 out of 2. A police report on the incident at the Derby, 1913. Catalogue ref: MEPO 2/1551

Extract 1 out of 2. A police report on the incident at the Derby, 1913. Catalogue ref: MEPO 2/1551

Two extracts from an account by Mary Raleigh Richardson entitled ‘Laugh a Defiance: an autobiography’. Published by George Weidenfeld & Nicolson: an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group, London, 1953.

 

Mary Richardson was a prominent suffragette present at the Derby who observed what happened to Emily Davison.

Extract 3 out of 3. Three extracts from an article called ‘Sensational Derby’ in The Morning Post, 5 June 1913, Catalogue ref: HO 144/1150/210696

 

The Derby is a horse race held each year at Epsom. Suffragist is a term used to describe someone who wants political voting rights given to more people, in this case to women.

Extract 2 out of 3. Three extracts from an article called ‘Sensational Derby’ in The Morning Post, 5 June 1913, Catalogue ref: HO 144/1150/210696

 

The Derby is a horse race held each year at Epsom. Suffragist is a term used to describe someone who wants political voting rights given to more people, in this case to women.

Extract 1 out of 3. Three extracts from an article called ‘Sensational Derby’ in The Morning Post, 5 June 1913, Catalogue ref: HO 144/1150/210696

 

The Derby is a horse race held each year at Epsom. Suffragist is a term used to describe someone who wants political voting rights given to more people, in this case to women.

A handbill publicising a demonstration at Parliament on 22 November 1910. Catalogue ref: HO 144/1106/200455

A photograph taken outside the Houses of Parliament on 18 November, Catalogue ref: a. COPY 1/551

 

The man in the top hat is Dr Herbert Mills, the husband of the woman on the ground, Ernestine Mills.

Page 2 out of 2. A leaflet from the Women’s Social and Political Union describing the force-feeding of suffragettes at Walton Gaol, Liverpool, December 1909, Catalogue ref: HO 144/1052/187234)

Page 1 out of 2. A leaflet from the Women’s Social and Political Union describing the force-feeding of Suffragettes at Walton Gaol, Liverpool, December 1909. Catalogue ref: HO 144/1052/187234

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