"No Vote Resisted, No Census" suffragette badge
Dublin Core
Title
"No Vote Resisted, No Census" suffragette badge
Subject
Activism
Description
In 1911, various suffrage organisations, including the WSPU and Women’s Freedom League, called on their members to boycott the government census, with the call “If women don’t count, neither shall they be counted.” Thousands of women spoiled their census papers, facing a month’s imprisonment or £5 fine, to protest against not recognising women as political citizens. The protest was covered negatively in the press, which provoked Emmeline Pankhurst to state: “The Census is a numbering of the people. Until women count as people for the purpose of representation in the council of the nation, we shall refuse to be numbered.”
The inscription on the badge reads: No Vote! No Census! Census Resisted! (outer circle); “A Census for G’ Britain shall be taken in the year 1911 & the Census day shall be Sunday the 2nd day of April in that year” (inner circle).
The inscription on the badge reads: No Vote! No Census! Census Resisted! (outer circle); “A Census for G’ Britain shall be taken in the year 1911 & the Census day shall be Sunday the 2nd day of April in that year” (inner circle).
Creator
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
Source
Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives
Publisher
The Merchants Portrait Company
Date
1911
Format
jpeg image file
Language
English (United Kingdom)
Identifier
KP.AK.4.2
Collection
Citation
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), “"No Vote Resisted, No Census" suffragette badge,” Suffragette Stories, accessed April 19, 2024, https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/items/show/36.