Invitation to Ceremonial Unveiling of Mrs Pankhurst's Statue

Invitation to Ceremonial Unveiling of Mrs Pankhurst's Statue

Reputation

An invitation from Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin’s Office for Annie Kenney to attend the Ceremonial Unveiling of Mrs. Pankhurst’s Statue in Westminster on 6 March 1930. The inside page communicates that The Metropolitan Police Central Band will play and that Dame Ethel Smyth will conduct. Ethel Smyth was a dedicated participant in the suffrage movement and in 1910 composed “The March of the Women”, a song that became the official anthem of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU).

Prime Minister's Office

Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives

Unknown

13th November 1929

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English (United Kingdom)

KP/AK/2/Baldwin/2

Paper