An important part of suffrage campaigning was the organisation of mass processions and parades for the 1911 Coronation of King George V. These Flickr photos show preparations, banners, leaflets, tracts letters and so on.
A Fragile Unity: The Women’s Coronation Procession, 1911 is an article on the Mapping Women’s Suffrage website which shows the scale of the organisation and its connection with Empire. Indeed, it included a ‘car of Empire‘ designed by Marion Wallace Dunlop Its purpose is described on the
Google Arts and culture website.
Laurence Housman helped design this banner for the Actresses Suffrage League in their colours of pink and green which was first carried at 1911 Coronation parade.
Votes For Women, June 16 1911 gives a detailed map of the route on page 614 as does Map for a suffragette march, June 1911 from the British Library.
The Common Cause, June 22 1911 has photos and accounts of the success of the March.
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