Emmeline Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence campaigning at the Haverfordwest by-election, July 1908

Emmeline Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence campaigning at the Haverfordwest by-election, July 1908. The photo has been inserted into a card frame with a handwritten message on the reverse 'A Souvenir of the Pembrokeshire Bye-Election July 1908. Mrs Pankhurst and Mrs Pethick Lawrence at Haverfordwest. From Fred Warren'. Campaigning at by-elections was a key policy of the Womens Social and Political Union. Paid WSPU Organisers were sent to constituencies to rent temporary premises from where they co-ordinated campaigns to urge voters to 'keep the Liberal candidate' out. Guest appearances from Suffragette leaders such as, in this case Emmeline Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence attracted large crowds and energised the by-election campaign. Unfortunately, however, despite the appearance of the leaders the Suffragettes failed to convince voters in Haverfordwest to vote agains the Liberal Candidate who easily won the by-election.