Meeting. Limehouse Social Institute

Printed handbill announcing an open air meeting in support of Votes for Women. This event, organised by the Women's Social and Political Union, and held on 15 July 1906 in Victoria Park, East London included speeches by notable Suffragette leaders including Dora Montefiore, Irene Miller, Teresa Billington, Nellie Martel and Minnie Baldock. The occasion of the meeting was the arrest and imprisonment of Adelaide Knight, Mrs Sparboro and Annie Kenney on 19th June 1906, referred to on the flyer as 'the unjust and vindictive sentences passed on the three women suffragists.' The location of the meeting, Victoria Park, was significant as the arrested women were part of a contingent of about 30 Suffragettes from east London who marched to the home of Asquith, then Chancellor of the Exchequer in Cavendish Square. The ensuing confrontation with the police became the first occasion that London Suffragettes were arrested and sent to Holloway prison. As well as providing details of the meeting this double sided flyer, produced in the early years of WSPU, also outlines the case for giving women the vote at a time when the Suffragette argument was still not widely known or supported.