"National League for Opposing Woman-Suffrage" Badge
Women's rights
Political participation
Badge produced by National League for Opposing Woman-Suffrage. The NLOWS was founded in 1910 in London, after the merger of the Women’s National Anti-Suffrage League and the Men’s League for Opposing Woman Suffrage, to oppose granting voting rights to women in the UK. Reasons given for this opposition included: doubts women would be able to make sound political decisions due to their emotional nature, fears that if women became involved in politics, they would stop having children and the human race would die out, claims that women were already represented by their husbands, and so on. The organisation ceased to exist after the 1918 Representation of the People Act.
The National League for Opposing Woman-Suffrage
Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives
The Merchant Portrait Company
1910-1918
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"The Haunted House" belt buckle
Political activists
Women's rights
This belt buckle was cast in relief with the image of “The Haunted House”, a cartoon in the Daily Chronicle by David Wilson, depicting a female ghost hovering over the Houses of Parliament.
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives
Unknown
1908
Wilson, David at The Daily Chronicle
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"Women's Social and Political Union" suffragette badge
Political activists
Women's rights
Small, shield-shaped lapel pin in the WSPU colours – green, white, and purple. In her memoir, Memories of a Militant (1924), Annie Kenney writes that the Suffragette colours were devised by Mrs Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867-1954). Purple stands for loyalty, white for purity, and green for hope.
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives
The Merchant Portrait Company
1903-1917
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Invitation to the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, 1929
Reputation
Women's rights
Invitation to Mrs Taylor (Miss Annie Kenney) to attend the 11th International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship (IWSA) Congress. The Congress was to be held in Berlin, June 17-22, 1929. The organisation was founded in 1904 in Berlin and by leading suffrage campaigners, including Marie Stritt and Millicent Fawcett. Today, the organisation is known as the International Alliance of Women and is an international’s non-governmental organisation promoting women’s human rights, representing several hundred thousand international members. It is not known whether Annie attended.
International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship
Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives
Unknown
1929
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