Name/TitlePostcard: Ducking Stool
About this objectPostcard No. 4127 titled 'Ducking Stool, Fordwich, near Canterbury, featuring a colour tinted image of a wooden ducking chair being lowered over a river. The description overleaf reads 'The Ducking Stool Fordwich is a rare and interesting survival of the "good old days", when scolding wives were punished by being tied to the stool and freely immersed in cold water.'
Period1910s
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, card
Inscription and MarksOn back, top left, in pencil: "SUFFRAGE"
Correspondence [At right angles, in black ink]: "11.9.12 ~ Summer hasn't come yet but but winter has, my word it is cold enough to give one the bally hooley, we had the stove alight yesterday & today, it seems so awfully early to start fires. Am wondering where you are tonight, should like to be with you at Hippodrome or Theatre. This is your Dad's idea for the Suffragettes, alright this weather wouldn't it. Hope you are all well. Just going in town. Love G."
Addressee: "Mrs Roach, 27 Anson Place, St Judes, Plymouth"
Halfpenny stamp postmarked Canterbury 7:30 PM Sept 11 1912
MeasurementsH: 138 x W: 88 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsWomen's suffrage
Subject and Association KeywordsMisogyny
Subject and Association KeywordsWitchcraft
Subject and Association DescriptionLocated at the back of the Old Weavers' House, this is likely to be a late Victorian or Edwardian replica of a medieval ducking stool: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/ducking-stools/
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypePostcard
Object numberGWL-2022-26-70
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved