Extract from The Illustrated London News © Article with photographs about a demonstration of non-militant suffragists in Hyde Park, 2 August 1913 (Catalogue ref: ZPER 34/143)
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“Better is Wisdom than Weapons of War”: Non-Militant Suffragists in Hyde Park
- A PILGRIMAGE OF LAW-ABIDING SUFFRAGISTS: MARCHING THROUGH EALING
- A LEADER WHO MARCHED ALL THE WAY FROM KESWICK TO LONDON: LADY ROCHDALE SPEAKING IN HYDE PARK
- THE SUFFRAGETTE AS HORSEWOMAN: THE PROCESSION ENTERING HYDE PARK
- PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES MRS HENRY FAWCETT ADDRESSES THE GREAT MEETING
“Better is wisdom than weapons of war” was the motto on the banner of the Cambridge contingent of non-militant suffragists who held a great meeting on July 26 in Hyde Park, at which converged a number of Pilgrimages from distant parts of the country, such as Land’s End, Carlisle, Newcastle and Keswick. Lady Rochdale, who started from Keswick, missed only one day of the March – that on which she took part in a reception of the King and Queen in Lancashire. Mrs Fawcett, who presided over the demonstration in Hyde Park, spoke from the central platform of nineteen massed waggons. Three ladies riding astride led the procession.