2-720-475 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Suffragette "Martyrs" Released from Prison', 1908, (1933). A triumphant procession with banners and a brass band, to celebrate the release of British suffragettes who had been imprisoned for demanding the vote for women. Campaigners protested through direct action and civil disobedience, achieving partial suffrage in 1918. It was not until 1928 that all women finally gainied the right to vote. From "The Pageant of the Century". [Odhams Press Ltd, 1933]