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Description: | This illustration was published in the French newspaper "le Petit Journal". At this time, the ability to vote was governed by the Third Reform Act (1884), which gave the vote to men holding property valued at ��10 or more, or whose rent was above ��10 per annum. Women were entirely excluded, something seen increasingly as a great injustice. One of the best-known groups set up to fight for women's suffrage was the Women's Social and Political Union, founded in 1903 and widely known as the suffragettes. The suffragettes used more militant methods of campaigning, as can be seen in this picture, whose caption reads: "An action by English suffragettes: disguised as firefighters, they ride across London on a fire engine". | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Unknown Copyright | Subjects: | Power and Politics Art and Design | Temporal: | c1908 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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