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The Women’s Library held hands-on archive showings of special suffrage material to celebrate the inaugural Archives Awareness Month. In keeping with the campaign's theme of Love and Hate, we organised two special days exploring the archives.
For the ‘Love' event, visitors explored the story of Hugh and Elsie Franklin. They met when he rescued her from the back of a lorry parked on Bristol docks as she was speaking at a suffrage meeting. The passionate views of the suffrage campaigners were explored through images of rallies and meetings and accounts of hunger striking.
The vitriolic hatred expressed by anti-suffrage campaigners formed the material for the second event, which included cartoons and images produced by the Anti-Suffrage League and letters sent after Emily Wilding Davison's death under the King's horse.
More information
- About our archive and museum collections
- Group visits and guided tours
- Source notes for women and suffrage
- Past learning projects home page
External links (opens in new window)
- Archive Awareness Campaign
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