Museum of London exhibition will mark suffragettes’ victory

Lives of women who fought 50-year campaign for the vote will be celebrated in show next yearWomen whose 50-year campaign for the vote culminated in a law finally being passed in 1918 will have their lives celebrated in an exhibition at the Museum of London next year – including Kitty Marshall, sentenced to Holloway prison in 1910 for throwing a potato at a window of Winston Churchill’s home.Marshall was among more than 1,000 women jailed during the campaign, many of whom went on hunger strike demanding to be treated as political prisoners. The exhibition will include medals the organisers awarded to former prisoners and hunger strikers – Marshall won three – and covert photographs taken in the exercise yard at Holloway, circulated so that museums, galleries and other public spaces could recognise them as the campaign spread to attacks on public collections. Continue reading…
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