Printed Ephemera — 1908-06-21
Preparing Banners for Women's Sunday
Preparing banners for Women's Sunday, 21 June 1908. The procession referred to on the banner at the back was 'Procession G, that assembled at Marylebone Road. This procession included three brass bands and a silver band, suffragettes from Nottingham, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Leicester and Loughborough, women teachers and working women.
Women's Sunday was the first 'monster' meeting to be organised by the militant Women's Social and Political Union. Specially chartered trains transported thousands of Suffragettes from all over Britain to march in seven processions through central London to a rally in Hyde Park. The highly choreographed demonstration attracted a crowd of up to 300,000 drawn by the colourful spectacle of the delegates dressed in the suffragette tricolour and carrying over seven hundred embroidered banners. ‘Never’, reported the Daily Chronicle, has so vast a throng gathered in London to witness a parade of political forces’.
- Category:
- Printed Ephemera
- Object ID:
- NN22699
- Object name:
- Preparing Banners for Women's Sunday
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- Artist/Maker:
- World's Graphic Press Limited
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- Production date:
- 1908-06-21
- Material:
paper
- Measurements/duration:
- H 195 mm, W 150 mm
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- Record quality:
- 100%
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Permanent collection
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digital image © London Museum
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