The black and white photo shows a historic protest march with a suffrage banner.

In advance of the processions planned for Women's Sunday, the WSPU (Women's Suffrage and Political Union) commissioned  a series of banners to be held during the march. The Kensington branch of the WSPU was, according to Lisa Ticknor, the only banner to be worked by local members, as opposed to commercial manufacturers. Their banner, "From Prison to Citizenship," was designed by Laurence Housman and created principally by Clemence Housman, in collaboration with other members of the Kensington group, working together in the siblings' back garden studio. Ticknor speculates this group was the nucleus for the Suffrage Atelier, which the Housmans launched the following year (71). The banner became one of the most iconic of the suffrage movement and was carried in numerous processions. 


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21 Jun 1908

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