Great Procession of Women, June 18th, 1910. Women's Social and Political Union.

Handbill issued by the Women's Social and Political Union announcing the Great Procession of Women to be held in central London on 18th June, 1910.The leaflet, printed in the Suffragette colours, purple in green includes Sylvia Pankhurt's trumpeting angel log. Details of the event, including a map of the processional route are printed on both sides of the handbill. This event, organised by the WSPU and Women's Freedom League was staged in support of the government's Conciliation Bill currently being debated in Parliament. This, the first spectacular procession to be held in London since the summer of 1908 was also known as 'The Prison to Citizenship' procession in praise of the 617 Suffragettes who, by that time, had served a term of imprisonment for militancy. The procession of up to 15000 women travelled from the Embankment to Kensington where a meeting was held in the Albert Hall.