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Photographs

 

Note: Photographs relating to 'suffragette' activity were used extensively in Scottish newspapers, notably in the period of heightened militancy, 1913-14. Some of the images listed below appeared originally as Press photographs and in magazines such as The Scots Pictorial.

 

 

Central Scotland

 

Ballikinrain Castle, Stirlingshire. Picture of burned-out shell of castle, the June 1913 blaze attributed to suffragettes. (Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum)

 

Dunblane. Two real photo postcards of the shopfronts of  ‘A. Reid, Bookseller and Stationer’ and 'Annand, Stationer and Newsagent,’ both in High Street, Dunblane. A billboard for the Daily Record outside the former reads, ‘Suffrage Warfare attack on House of Commons.’ The billboards outside Annand include the Daily Record billboard as well as one for the Advertiser (Dundee), which reads, ‘Suffragette Trojan Horse attack on House of Commons.’ Both refer to the attempt by women in a furniture van to gain access to the House of Commons in 1909. (Private collection, Copies in WC)

 

Falkirk. Photograph of unknown procession, with cyclist carrying ‘Votes for Women’ placard. Undated, c1910. (Falkirk Council Archives, P35861)

 

Stirling. Undated open-air meeting at Stirling, unidentified woman speaker. (Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum)

 

Stirling. Various scenes of suffrage activity during the 1908 Stirling Burghs by-election which followed the death of Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. (Scots Pictorial, May 1908)

 

Dundee

‘Arson. Farington Hall, near Dundee Burnt, with Damage Estimated at £20,000.’ Photograph, originally published in London Illustrated News (24 May 1913) showing the ruins of Farington Hall in Perth Road, gutted by a "suffragette" fire. (Copy in WC)

 

Despard, Charlotte. Photographed at Shore Terrace, Dundee on May 5, 1908. The Scots-born leader of the Women's Freedom League addresses a gathering standing in an open carriage, which she shares with Mary Maloney, who is seated. The audience for the founding member and president of the WFL comprises mainly men, as they were the voters who could drum out the Liberal government. (Dundee City Archives Laskie Deposit. Copy in WC)

 

Maloney, Mary. Photo of WFL member Mary Maloney delivering speech from the back of a Dundee ‘taxi’ in 1908. Appeared originally in the Scots Pictorial magazine, April 1908. (Copy in WC)

 

Maloney, Mary. Maloney holds a large dinner bell as she stands in the back of an open carriage addressing a crowd at Shore Terrace, Dundee in May 1908. Maloney had pursued Winston Churchill to Dundee after he had made disparaging remarks about her in London. The Women’s Freedom League firebrand vowed to ring a large handbell whenever the Cabinet minister spoke. She disrupted so many of his speeches in Dundee that he eventually had to hold them in secret. (Watson Collection)

 

Maloney, Mary. Photo shows Winston Churchill attempting to address a large crowd in Dundee, but being drowned out by Mary Maloney with her bell. Eventually, the Pankhursts wrote to the Dundee Press to distance themselves from Maloney’s unilateral action. Indeed, the women’s campaign was probably damaged by the public and Press focus shifting so frequently to her bell-ringing antics. May, 1908. (Topham Picturepoint, Ref 0020107. Copy in WC)

 

Pankhurst, Christabel. A portrait postcard issued by the WSPU. Postally used in 1908 with a message referring to an eyewitness account of the Winston Churchill by-election campaign. Message reads: “I send you a photo of one of the Suffragettes. E&H were over hearing them last night, perfectly enthusiastic about them. They are much in evidence in Dundee, there’s a spate of oratory just now.” (Watson Collection)

 

Pankhurst, Christabel. She speaks to an impressive crowd in Euclid Crescent, Dundee. D C Thomson building in background. May 8, 1908. (Dundee City Archives Laskie Deposit. Copy in WC)

 

Pankhurst, Christabel. Speaking to the crowd in Euclid Crescent, with Dundee High School in background. May 8, 1908. Another unidentified woman looks on. Pankhurst “spoke with a spontaneity, vivacity and girlish humour that were very charming.” (Watson Collection)

 

Pankhurst, Christabel and Emmeline. Photograph of the WSPU leaders welcoming women released from hunger strike in Dundee in September 1909. Mrs Pankhurst had hurried north from London to welcome the first Scottish hunger strikers on their release from Bell Street prison. (Dundee Central Libraries, Copy in WC)

 

Pankhurst, Emmeline. She addresses a large gathering in Exchange Square, Dundee, May 1908. She stands on the back of an open carriage, a top-hatted man in the driver’s seat. (Watson Collection)

 

Photograph cutting from Dundee Courier, April 3, 1911. ‘Dundee Suffragettes Resist the Census.’ Five unidentified women are seen, with the picture captioned, ‘Scene in the WSPU rooms, Nethergate, at Midnight.’ (WC)

 

Unidentified woman on postcard from the Dundee by-election of May, 1908. She speaks to crowd from back of open carriage. Large notice attached to rear of carriage reads, ‘Foresters’ Hall, Afternoon Meetings, Each Day, 3pm.’ (Watson Collection)

 

Unidentified women (two photographs) standing on carriages in Dundee street, addressing large crowds. Some people watch from tenement windows. (Dundee Central Libraries, 1908 scrapbook, Copies in WC)