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Emmeline Pankhurst

Posted by on Saturday, January 24, 2026, In : Photography

Top: Emmeline Pankhurst posing for a formal photograph in 1913.

Bottom: Mrs. Pankhurst addressing a crowd c.1910 with her daughter Christabel sat next to her.

American Suffrage Protest

Posted by on Friday, July 4, 2025, In : Photography

Women protesting outside the White House in 1917 demanding voting rights for women.
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Emmeline Pankhurst Arrested

Posted by on Friday, July 4, 2025, In : Photography

Emmeline Pankhurst, Leader of the Women's Social Political Union (WSPU), being arrested outside Buckingham Palace in May 1914 while protesting for women's right to vote.

Edith Garrud's Jujitsu

Posted by on Friday, September 20, 2013, In : Photography

Edith Margaret Garrud was an early 20th century female jujitsu expert who used her considerable skill to train a group known simply as the Bodyguard. They were tasked with giving protection to Emmeline Pankhurst and other suffragettes, who were regularly manhandled and harassed by police.

In 1913, Garrud made a short film (from which the pictures above are taken) to demonstrate her jujitsu and show than even in the male dominated world of the early twentieth century, a well-trained woman coul...
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