2-720-478 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Welcome to the Victims of Masculine Tyranny' 1908, (1933). A group of British suffragettes, recently released from prison, with a 'Welcome' banner. Campaigners for votes for women protested through direct action and civil disobedience, and were punished with imprisonment and force-feeding. Partial suffrage was achieved in 1918, but it was not until 1928 that all women finally gainied the right to vote. From "The Pageant of the Century". [Odhams Press Ltd, 1933]