Name/TitleBadges: Votes for Women
About this objectSet of four commemorative button badges mounted on display card headed 'Suffragettes ~ Votes for Women'. Produced by the Museum of London to mark the 1918-2018 centenary of some women being given the right to vote. The images on each badge are reproduced from original enamelled or tin badges in the museum's extensive Suffragette collection.
MakerMuseum of London
MakerCustom Works
Maker RoleDesigner and Manufacturer
Date Madec.2018
Place MadeEngland, London
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, card
Inorganic, plastic and metal
MeasurementsH: 130 x W: 94 mm (backing)
Dia: 38 mm (individual badges)
Subject and Association KeywordsWomen's suffrage
Subject and Association KeywordsMuseum exhibitions
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://virtualexhibitions.museumoflondon.org.uk/votes-for-women:
Votes for Women was a temporary exhibition at the Museum of London between February 2018 and March 2019.
In December 1918 British women walked shoulder to shoulder with their husbands, brothers, fathers and sons to vote, for the first time, in a general election.
The exhibition, marked the centenary of Votes for (some) Women, and revealed the extraordinary struggle to achieve female representation in parliament. Featuring key items from the museum’s unique Suffragette collection, it reflected particularly on the legacy of the militant Deeds not Words campaign and the lives of the women and men prepared to risk arrest and imprisonment for the cause.
From the spectacle of beautifully choreographed processions to the violence of window smashing, arson, attacks on artworks and the brutality of prison hunger strikes and force-feeding, the campaign continues to divide opinion. But above all, the Suffragette story represents comradeship and a shared commitment to challenge an unjust, male-dominated society.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBadge
Object numberGWL-2023-1-1
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved