Suffragettes Lining Up for Women's Sunday, 21 June 1908

ID:

50.82/1760

Production date:

1908-06-21

Location:

In Store

Suffragettes lining up for Woman's Sunday, 21 June 1908. The photograph depicts one of the seven processions that marched through London to the rally in Hyde Park. In the foreground of the photograph can be seen a standard bearer identified as Dorothy Radcliffe holding aloft a purple, white and green flag. Behind Dorothy is one of the thirty marching bands that took part in the demonstration.
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Suffragettes lining up for Woman's Sunday, 21 June 1908. The photograph depicts one of the seven processions that marched through London to the rally in Hyde Park. In the foreground of the photograph can be seen a standard bearer identified as Dorothy Radcliffe holding aloft a purple, white and green flag. Behind Dorothy is one of the thirty marching bands that took part in the demonstration.

Woman's Sunday 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’. < Hide

Measurements

H 140 mm; W 208 mm

Materials

paper

Last Updated

2024-03-14