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Women’s suffrage procession in Royal Park (Holyrood), October 1907. Real photo postcard showing procession passing through the park, with a large crowd lining the route. This was Scotland’s first major suffrage procession and acted to consolidate the movement north of the border. No other images of the 1907 procession are known. (Watson Collection)

Women horse riders (6), unidentified, leading the Edinburgh Procession on real photo postcard dated 9 October, 1909. (Mary Evans Picture Library 10090540, Women's Library, London)

 

Women’s suffrage procession, Princes Street, Edinburgh, October 1909. Various views. (People’s Palace Museum, Glasgow and People’s Story Museum, Edinburgh)

 

England

Emmeline Pankhurst and Keir Hardie addressing a suffrage demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, 1910. (National Museums of Scotland, NMLH-MOS2)

 

Daisy Dugdale, leading a procession to welcome the release of Emmeline and Christine Pankhurst, London, December 1908. Daisy’s sisters Una and Joan were also suffragettes. (LFC, Museum of London)

 

The Honorable Mrs Haverfield. Real photo postcard of Mrs Haverfield mounted on a horse, the caption reading, “As Marshall for the ‘Votes for Women’ Demonstration, June 18.” Scots born Evelina Scarlett, afterwards the Hon Mrs Haverfield, lived for a time at Inverlochy, near Kingussie. An accomplished horsewoman, she was a familiar sight as a WSPU mounted marshall at processions and famously perfected a technique of making police horses sit down during demonstrations. She also campaigned at the 1910 General Election in Dundee in the WSPU’s attempt to dislodge Winston Churchill. (Watson Collection)

 

Mary Phillips sells copies of Votes for Women in London in 1907. She stands on the road to sell the papers to passers’-by on the pavement, thus avoiding a potential charge of obstruction. (SFC, Museum of London)

 

Mary Phillips, seated at a commemorative ‘Suffragettes Dinner’, Belgravia Hotel, London, October 1933. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

 

Scottish suffragettes welcoming Mary Phillips on her release from Holloway Gaol, London, in August 1908. (SFC, Museum of London, Copies in People’s Palace and National Museum of Scotland)

 

Una Dugdale addressing a crowd of men during the Newcastle by-election in September 1908. In 1912 Dugdale married Victor Duval, founder of the Men’s Political Union for Women's Suffrage. (SFC, Museum of London)

 

Watson, Bessie. Full-figure of Bessie, aged 9, the "youngest piper" at the London Suffrage Pageant of 1912. (People’s Story Museum, Edinburgh)

 

 

Glasgow

Amy Sanderson addressing an open air meeting, postcard view. Sanderson, born in Glasgow, joined the WSPU in Forfar in 1907 and remained active in Scotland until 1909. (Private Collection) (See Elspeth King's The Hidden History of Glasgow's Women.)

 

Bookshop of the Women's Freedom League centre, 302 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. (Norma Sloan Album, see note at the end of Photographs section.)

 

Helen Crawford, seated at a table holding booklet, c1914. (Gallagher Memorial Library, Glasgow Caledonian University Library)

 

Demonstration held by WFL members on Glasgow Green, 1909. One standing woman speaks, others seated in carriage. Notice on carriage reads; ‘Votes for Women, Women’s Freedom League Comes To Glasgow Green.’ (People’s Palace)

 

Glasgow women who went to prison after the London window smashing campaign in March, 1912. The line up shows Helen Crawfurd, Janet Borrowman, Margaret McPhun, Mrs A.A. Wilson, Frances McPhun, Nancy A. John and Annie Swan. (People’s Palace)