3-053-293 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

A suffragette being arrested, c1910s (1935). The campaign to secure the vote for women in Britain reached its peak in 1912, early in George V's reign, with women adopting a range of protests, direct action and civil disobedience. Partial suffrage was achieved in 1918, with all women finally gaining the right to vote ten years later, in 1928. A print from "King Emperor's Jubilee, 1910-1935", by FGH Salusbury, Daily Express Publications, London, 1935. (Colorised black and white print).