‘The Very Latest Craze!’: Strategic Thinking in Suffragette Themed Games
The Suffragettes needed a way to raise money for their cause and inspire the next generation to join the fight […]
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She Was Not Alone: Royal Holloway’s Suffragist and Suffragette Alumnae
When we think of the fight for women’s suffrage, one image often stands out in our minds. We imagine a […]
Deeds and Words: Suffragettes and Suffragists
In May 2020, a portrait was discovered at Royal Holloway University that showed a woman in a black dress reading […]
“Terrorists?”: The Suffragette Arson and Bombing Campaign
The way that we treat the Suffragettes in popular culture, using their slogans and images on everything from posters, to […]
Murder, Assault and Abduction: Violence Against Women in the Early 1900s
When I was pouring over Egham Museum’s newspaper collection, looking for traces of Suffragette and Suffragist activity, I was struck […]
‘Riots, Rogues and Rebellions’: Fighting for “Votes for Women!”
This online exhibition explores the role of the Suffragettes and the Suffragists in the fight to gain women the right […]
Letter to a Suffragette
Throughout our ‘Suffrage in Egham’ project which ran between 2017 and 2018, we uncovered the stories of individuals whose actions […]
Women: Wives, Workers & War Part 2
Read part one of Women: Wives, Workers and War here. Pre-war Life for Women Before the Great War, the reality […]
Women: Wives, Workers & War Part 1
Introduction & Acknowledgements The Egham Museum’s previous exhibition Suffrage in Egham, explored the roles of women and their fight locally […]
Suffrage Commissions
Egham Museum’s 2018 ‘Suffrage in Egham’ project worked in partnership with Royal Holloway, University of London to commission artistic interpretations […]