Name/TitlePostcard: Women's Coronation Procession
About this objectBlank postcard (No.145) produced by the Museum of London in 1992.The front features a black and white photographic image of a procession of suffragettes carrying flags and banners. The caption on the back of the card states: 'The Women's Coronation Procession, 17 June 1911.'
MakerUnknown
Maker RolePhotographer
MakerMuseum of London
Maker RoleProducer
Date Made1911
Period1910s
Place MadeEngland, London
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, card
MeasurementsH: 105 x W: 150 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsWomen's suffrage
Subject and Association KeywordsSuffragettes
Subject and Association KeywordsWSPU
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette:
A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, which engaged in direct action and civil disobedience. In 1906, a reporter writing in the Daily Mail coined the term suffragette for the WSPU, derived from suffragistα (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_Coronation_Procession:
The Women's Coronation Procession was a suffragette march through London, England, on 17 June 1911, just before King George V's coronation, demanding women's suffrage in the coronation year. The march was organised by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). It was "the largest women’s suffrage march ever held in Britain and one of the few to draw together the full range of suffrage organisations". Some 40,000 people marched from Westminster to the Albert Hall in South Kensington. Charlotte Despard and Flora Drummond on horseback led the march, which included Marjery Bryce dressed as Joan of Arc and 700 women and girls clothed in white to represent suffragette prisoners. Kate Harvey, Edith Downing and Marion Wallace-Dunlop were among the organisers, and Lolita Roy is believed to have been as well. Jane Cobden organised the Indian women's delegation. The presence of a substantial number of marchers, both clergymen and lay women, under the banner of the Church League for Women's Suffrage was remarked upon by the Church Times. Elsie Hooper and other members of the National Association of Women Pharmacists joined the march. In June 1911 the Chemist and Druggist carried photographs of women pharmacists in the march and reported "Miss Elsie Hooper, B.Sc., was in the Science Section, and several other women pharmacists did the two-and-a-half hours’ march.”
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypePostcard
Object numberGWL-2024-6-11
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved