Arrest of Mrs. Pankhurst, Miss Pankhurst, and Mrs Drummond. Mr Jarvis Reading the Warrant at Clement's Inn, October 13, 1908.
About this object
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Maker:
London News Agency Photos Ltd
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ID:
77.166/19
Production date:
1908
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Location:
In Store
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Postcard depicting the reading of an arrest warrant to the Suffragette leaders for conduct likely to provoke a breach of the peace. The warrant, issued on 12th October 1908 followed a speech made by the three leaders Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and Flora Drummond at a rally in Trafalgar Square the day before where they called for the audience to 'rush' the House of Commons. Arrested in the evening after the courts had closed the Suffragette leaders were detained overnight in the police cells their stay made more comfortable by a sympathetic MP who arranged for the Savoy Hotel to send in a table laid with silver and a feast served by three waiters. In anticiaption of the arrest the WSPU leaders had invited a press photographer from the London News Agency Photos Ltd. to capture the moment the police arrived. Hence the somewhat staged pose of the leaders.
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Measurements
H 88 mm; W 139 mm
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Materials
card; ink
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Last Updated
2024-03-14
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