Image: A suffragette being force-fed with a nasal tube c.1911.

“As authorities refused to treat the suffragettes as political prisoners, they began going on hunger strike, a form of protest first implemented by artist, author and illustrator Marion Wallace-Dunlop. However, they soon found themselves victims of a barbaric practice when, in 1909, Evaline Hilda Burkitt became the first suffragette to be force-fed. Not only did this fail to achieve its intended goal of ending hunger strikes, but...