Suffragette Collection Browse

Findmypast has brought together a collection of records from The National Archives related to suffragettes. The details found in each record will depend on the nature of the report. Among these records you will find:

• Arrest reports including the including the individual's name, offence, and arrest date

• Personal statements about arrests

• Cabinet letters related to the suffrage movement

• Reports by suffragettes of mistreatment and force-feeding

• Transcripts of speeches

After your search, select which volume you wish to view and you can browse the entire series. If you wish to search the collection by name, select the Suffragette collection available in the Useful links and resources.

Suffragettes advocated for the right to vote to be extended to women. The term ‘suffragist’ was a general term for those who supported women’s suffrage, and the term ‘suffragette’ was coined in 1906 by the Daily Mail to distinguish those who supported militant actions to support women’s suffrage.

The Suffragette collection spans from 1902 to 1919 and includes the following series of records from The National Archives: AR 1, ASSI 52, CAB 23, CAB 37, CAB 41, COPY 1, CRIM 1, CRIM 9, DPP 1, FO 371, FO 608, HO144, HO45, HO140, J 86, KV 2, LAB 2, LO 3, MEPO2, MEPO3, MEPO 5, MT 10, PCOM 7, PCOM 8, PP 1, PRO 30, T 1, T 172, TS 27, WORK 11, and WORK 19. Among these are photographs of suffragettes, cabinet letters, calendars of prisoners, Home Office papers of suffragette disturbances, an index of women arrested between 1906 and 1914 (the official watch list of over 1,300 suffragettes), reports of force-feeding, and more.

The women’s suffrage movement began in the late 19th century and became a national movement with the formation of The National Society for Women’s Suffrage in 1867 by Lydia Becker. Later came the more influential, National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, created under the leadership of Millicent Fawcett. A significant shift in the suffrage movement occurred in the early 20th century, when more suffragists supported militant action after being disappointed with years of no progress. In 1906, Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia established the Women’s Social and Political. The motto of the organisation was ‘Deeds Not Words’.

The women’s suffrage movement succeeded in influencing the passage of two pieces of legislation which extended the franchise to women. The Representation of the People Act 1918 extended the right to vote to women over the age of 30 who met the property qualifications. The Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928 expanded the vote to all women over the age of 21, bringing the right to vote for women in line with men.

The collection brings together the stories of women of all classes who actively supported women’s suffrage by attending peaceful demonstrations and meetings, as well as committed arson attacks, window breaking, contributed to public disobedience, chalked on footpaths, and more. You will find working-class women of the factories recorded alongside aristocratic women. The records do include the names of male suffragettes who were arrested with their female comrades.

There are numerous well-known names of suffragettes found in these records. Below is just a selection of the notable names:

• Emmeline, Christabel, and Sylvia Pankhurst – leaders of the women’s suffrage movement. Found the Women’s Social and Political Union and supported the militant actions of suffragettes.

• Leonora Cohen – Acted as the personal bodyguard for Emmeline Pankhurst and was arrested after smashing the display case of the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London, an action which gave her the nickname the ‘Tower Suffragette’.

• Emily Wilding Davison – Davison was arrested on nine occasions, commenced a hunger strike in prison, and was force-fed. One of her arrests was, famously, for hiding overnight in Parliament on the same night the 1911 census was recorded. In 1913, she was killed by King George V’s horse after walking onto the track at the Epsom Derby.

• Marion Wallace Dunlop – the first suffragette to go on a hunger strike while in prison.

• Flora McKinnon Drummond – given the nickname ‘the General’ for the way that she led women’s marches. Drummond was arrested nine times and a frequent speaker at demonstrations.

• Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe – arrested when she interrupted Churchill’s speech in 1909. She was badly beaten while imprisoned and suffered internal injuries.

• Lilian Ida Lenton – arrested for arson at the Tea House at Kew Gardens. Lenton escaped Holloway prison by dressing as an errand boy and fled to France.

• Lady Constance Lytton – arrested and force-fed while on hunger strike. Lady Lytton used the alias Jane Warton in order to avoid special treatment because of her title.

• Hannah Mitchell – involved with the Women’s Social and Political Union. Her autobiography, The Hard Way Up was used by Abi Morgan, the screenwriter of the 2015 film Suffragette, as inspiration for one of the film’s working-class characters.

• George Lansbury – a political and social reformer. Lansbury represented the East End of London and promoted social justice and women’s right. His name is listed among the index of suffragettes.

Below is a full list of all the series contained in this collection:

• AR 1/38 – Wallace Collection. Reopening of galleries closed against suffragists, Dec 1913
• AR 1/39 – Wallace Collection. Galleries close until further notice following suffragist outrage at National Gallery, March 1914
• AR 1/282 – Wallace Collection, precautionary measures against Suffragists, Mar 1914
• AR 1/36 – Wallace Collection, extra police for protecting against Suffragists, 1913
• AR 1/526 – Wallace Collection, extra police required against Suffragettes
• AR 1/528 – Wallace Collection, descriptions and photographs of 18 suffragists, 1914
• ASSI 52/212 – Northern and North-Eastern Circuits, Conspiracy: Whiteley, Edgar (Suffragette movement)
• CAB 23/32/1 – Cabinet meeting minutes (Cc 64(22)), 1 Nov 1922. Agenda point: 4. Claims by women's associations - proposed extension of female suffrage
• CAB 37/146/5 – Cabinet papers, 14 Apr 1916. On an article in The Suffragette paper called ‘The Britannia’
• CAB 41/20/8 – Cabinet letter from Prime Minister W E Gladstone, 25 Feb 1886. Inter alia Women’s Suffrage Bill
• CAB 41/32/29 – Cabinet letter from Prime Minister H H Asquith, 4 Aug 1909. Inter alia suffragette prisoners in Holloway
• CAB 41/32/44 – Cabinet letter from Prime Minister H H Asquith, 16 Dec 1909. Inter alia suffragettes
• CAB 41/32/61 – Cabinet letter from Prime Minister H H Asquith, 8 Jun 1910. Inter alia women's suffrage
• CAB 41/32/62 – Cabinet letter from Prime Minister H H Asquith, 15 Jun 1910. Inter alia women's suffrage bill
• CAB 41/32/63 – Cabinet letter from Prime Minister H H Asquith, 23 Jun 1910. Inter alia women's suffrage bill
• CAB 41/34/7 – Cabinet letter from Prime Minister H H Asquith, 11 Feb 1913. Inter alia suffragette disorders
• COPY 1/504/146 – Self-portrait of Charles Walter Boyce in female costume to represent a Suffragette, Dec 1906
• COPY 1/526/2 – Photograph of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of Votes for Women movement, London, full face head & shoulders, by Bernard Kruger, Sep 1908
• COPY 1/526/264 – ‘Waiting for Sisters at Holloway’ photograph in ‘Suffragette series’ showing male actor in female costume standing full face in front of two half open doors, by Sidney Armstrong King, Oct 1908
• COPY 1/526/265 – ‘How I rushed the House, by a Lady’ photograph in ‘Suffragette series’ showing male actor in female costume pushing two half closed doors, by Sidney Armstrong King, Oct 1908
• COPY 1/526/266 – Photograph in ‘Suffragette series’ showing male actor in female costume standing full face in front of two half closed doors entitled ‘What Do We Want’, by Sidney Armstrong King, Oct 1908
• COPY 1/526/267 – ‘Farewell, Dear Sisters’ photograph in ‘Suffragette series’ showing male actor in female costume standing full face behind two half closed doors, by Sidney Armstrong King, Oct 1908
• COPY 1/526/268 – ‘Sister Antique’ photograph in ‘Suffragette series’ showing male actor in female costume standing full face in front of two half closed doors, by Sidney Armstrong King, Oct 1908
• COPY 1/526/3 – Photograph of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of Votes for Women movement, London, three-quarter length, hand upraised holding papers, wearing hat & cloak, by Bernard Kruger, Sept 1908
• COPY 1/540/20 – Photograph from drawing ‘Policeman & Suffragette’ by Harold Baker, Nov 1909
• COPY 1/544/93 – ‘A Suffragette’ photograph showing woman carrying a basket and dog running out of her way, by William Henry Watson, Apr 1910
• CRIM 1/149/3 – Records relating to Proceedings in Court, Defendant: DREW, Sidney Granville. Charge: Inciting to cause damage by publishing ‘The Suffragette’. Session: June 1914
• CRIM 9/58 – Calendar of prisoners, 1912
• CRIM 9/59 – Calendar of prisoners, 1913
• CRIM 9/60 – Calendar of prisoners, 1914
• DPP 1/19 – Records of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Kerr and 8 others, Offence: Suffragettes
• DPP 1/21 – Records of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Lansbury, G, Offence: breach of the peace (suffragettes)
• DPP 1/23 – Records of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Pankhurst, E, and others, Offence: malicious damage (suffragettes)
• FO 371/137/602 – Foreign Office: political departments: general correspondence. Folios 602-604. Sweden: code 42, file 34298, paper 34298. Herbert Dering, First Secretary, the British Legation, Stockholm, 6 Oct 1906 reports that Arvid Lindman, Swedish Prime Minister, received deputation of 45 women representing Women’s Suffrage Movement
• FO 608/149/9 – International Council of Women in relation to the Peace Conference, 1919; printed pamphlet on the history, aims and organization of the council, entitled ‘What Is the International Council of Women? And Other Questions’. Representation of interests of women at the Peace Conference. National Association Against Women Suffrage. Protection of women under international law. Resolution of International Council of women at Zurich. Recovery of women deported into enemy territory
• HO 140/290 – Calendar of prisoners, 1911
• HO 140/297 – Calendar of prisoners, 1912
• HO 140/298 – Calendar of prisoners, 1912
• HO 140/305 – Calendar of prisoners, 1913
• HO 140/306 – Calendar of prisoners, 1913
• HO 140/308 – Calendar of prisoners, 1913
• HO 140/314 – Calendar of prisoners, 1914
• HO 140/316 – Calendar of prisoners, 1914
• HO 140/317 – Calendar of prisoners, 1914
• HO 144/1032/175314 – Home Office: Registered papers. Prisons and prisoners: use of books by suffragettes, 1909
• HO 144/1033/175878 – Home Office: Registered papers. Mrs Meredith MacDonald, suffragette, awarded £500 compensation for treatment in prison hospital, 1909
• HO 144/1038/180782 – Home Office: Registered papers. Prison treatment of Suffragettes
• HO 144/1038/180965 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragette medically unfit for forcible feeding released when further detention endangered life, 1909
• HO 144/1038/181250 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragettes picketing Downing Street convicted of obstruction, 1909
• HO 144/1039/182085 -- Home Office: Registered papers. Magistrates deliberately commit suffragettes to Third Division, but on Home Office Instructions they were treated as if in Second Division, 1909
• HO 144/1040/182086 – Home Office: Registered papers. Disturbance and obstruction of police by suffragettes meeting at Limehouse, 1909
• HO 144/1041/182749 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragettes in Liverpool Prison
• HO 144/1041/183189 – Home Office: Registered papers. Release of hunger-striking suffragettes from Manchester Prison, 1909
• HO 144/1042/183256 – Home Office: Registered papers. Prison treatment of persons convicted of offences not involving moral turpitude such as suffragettes and passive resisters
• HO 144/1043/183461 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragettes - prevention of annoyance to Cabinet Ministers, 1909
• HO 144/1045/184808 – Home Office: Registered papers. Treatment of women suffrage prisoners at Manchester Prison
• HO 144/1047/185574 – Home Office: Registered papers. Interference with the ballot box by suffragettes; treatment in Holloway Prison of suffragettes Alice Chapin and Alison Neilan
• HO 144/1047/185589 – Home Office: Registered papers. Prison treatment of suffragettes convicted of window-breaking at Guildhall, 1909
• HO 144/1049/186216 – Home Office: Registered papers. Treatment of suffragettes convicted at Preston and Haslingden
• HO 144/1052/187234 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragettes. Treatment in Liverpool Prison.
• HO 144/1054/187986 – Home Office: Registered papers. Treatment of Lady Constance Lytton, suffragette. Investigative journalism under cover as ‘Jane Warton’ / ‘Jane Wharton’
• HO 144/1106/200455 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragette disturbances at Westminster
• HO 144/1107/200655 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragette disturbances, 1910
• HO 144/1119/203651 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragette disturbances, 1911
• HO 144/1148/210238 – Home Office: Registered papers. Metropolitan Magistrate forced to withdraw from Men's League for Women's Suffrage, 1911
• HO 144/1150/210696 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragette Miss Emily Wilding Davison. Direct action, convictions & imprisonment, 1912; killed when she threw herself under the King's horse at the derby in 1913
• HO 144/1169/214572 – Home Office: Registered papers. Imprisonment of suffragette Clemence Housman for refusing to pay taxes so long as women were unrepresented, 1911. Court: King's Bench. Offence: contempt. Sentence: sine die
• HO 144/1193/220196 - 1 to 233 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragettes' demonstration. Imprisonment. Forcible Feeding
• HO 144/1194/220196 - 236 to 500 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragettes' demonstration. Imprisonment. Forcible feeding
• HO 144/1195/220196 - 504 to 670 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragettes' demonstration. Imprisonment. Forcible Feeding
• HO 144/1204/221826 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragette Clara Giveen sentenced to three years' penal servitude for setting fire to the grandstand at Hurst Park. Refused food in prison, released on medical grounds and escaped police observation
• HO 144/1205/221862 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragette. Damage to a Romney picture ("Master Thornhill")
• HO 144/1205/221999 – Home Office: Registered papers. Hunger strike at Aylesbury Prison. Four suffragette prisoners unfit for forcible feeding discharged, 1912
• HO 144/1205/222030 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragette sentenced to two years imprisonment for arson
• HO 144/1206/222067 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragette sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for possessing explosives
• HO 144/1223/227166 – Home Office: Registered papers. Arson at Theatre Royal, Dublin. Two suffragettes sent to prison for five years but released after hunger strike
• HO 144/1232/229179 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragette Rachel Peace alias Jane Short forcibly fed
• HO 144/1236/230251 – Home Office: Registered papers. Ella Stevenson Ethel Slade, suffragette, subject to the conditions of the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act, 1913
• HO 144/1254/234646 – Home Office: Registered papers. Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, Suffragette leader. Court: Central Criminal Court; Offence: Suffragette Outrages; Sentence: 3 years P.S.
• HO 144/1255/234788 – Home Office: Registered papers. Lilian Lenton, suffragette, charged on various occasions with arson, etc.
• HO 144/1257/235545 – Home Office: Registered papers. Mary Richardson, suffragette outrages.
• HO 144/1261/236533 – Home Office: Registered papers. Phyllis Brady, suffragette, charged and convicted on various occasions of committing arson etc.
• HO 144/1264/237169 – Home Office: Registered papers. Former MP George Lansbury, suffragette supporter, released temporarily from prison, asks the King to release Sylvia Pankhurst or to order his own re-arrest
• HO 144/1267/237954 – Home Office: Registered papers. Beatrice Helen Saunders, suffragette, charged with conspiracy at Central Criminal Court, sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment, third division, 1913
• HO 144/1268/238215 – Home Office: Registered papers. Sydney Granville Drew found guilty of publishing articles for the Women Suffragettes inciting them to commit arson
• HO 144/1274/239318 – Home Office: Registered papers. Harry Johnson, militant suffragist; Court: Leeds; Offence: attempted arson (suffragist); Sentence: 12 months' hard labour; temporary discharge from prison; Conditional Pardon, 1913
• HO 144/1275/239581 – Home Office: Registered papers. Harriet R Kerr, suffragette, released under Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act, 1913
• HO 144/1275/239582 – Home Office: Registered papers. Agnes Lake, suffragette, charged with conspiracy, and sentenced to six months. Released under "Cat and Mouse Act", 1913
• HO 144/1318/252288 – Home Office: Registered papers. Raid of suffragette's flat in Maida Vale, headquarters of Women's Social and Political Union, 1914
• HO 144/1320/252950 – Home Office: Registered papers. Drugs illegally conveyed to Suffragettes in Holloway Prison; prison rules regarding conveyance of articles to and from a prisoner in custody and communications by Prison Officers with discharged prisoners, 1914
• HO 144/1548/181784 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragettes picketing Downing Street convicted of obstruction, 1909
• HO 144/1558/234191 – Home Office: Registered papers. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst - Suffragette
• HO 144/1709/425859 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragette pickets outside House of Commons. Mrs Moore of Women's Freedom League concerned about suffragettes practising at a shooting range
• HO 144/1721/221874 – Home Office: Registered papers. Kitty Marion a.k.a. Katherina Schafer: German suffragette's activities led to her being repatriated to Germany
• HO 144/552/185732 – Home Office: Registered papers. Theresa Garnet, Jessie Lawes, Vera Wentworth, Mary Allen, Ellen Wines Pitman. Treatment of suffragettes in Bristol Prison, 1909
• HO 144/599/184276 – Home Office: Registered papers. Proceedings at Newcastle Crown Court and imprisonment of suffragettes in Newcastle Prison, following protests and incidents linked to a visit by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George, to the Newcastle Liberal Club and the Palace Theatre and other associated incidents on 9 October 1909. Those mentioned in these files include: Violet Bryant. Winifred Jones. Lady Constance Lytton. Mrs Jane E Brailsford. Kathleen Brown. Lily Asquith. Kitty Marion. Ellen Pitman. Dorothy Pethick. Dorothy Shellard. Press cuttings, additionally record the discharge and release of some of those imprisoned and also include: Medical reports on the health of the prisoners, several of whom went on hunger strike and were forcibly fed, together with Governor's reports, letters from the prisoners' relatives, solicitors and representatives enquiring about their welfare and treatment, and reporting their character including a letter addressed to the King from Mr H N Brailsford in regard to his wife. The Newcastle Chief Constable's report on the visit by David Lloyd George, 9 October 1909, with a list of names of suffragettes arrested, dates of conviction, offences and results. Questions and answers in the House of Commons respecting the suffragettes in Newcastle gaol, 20 and 27 October 1909, together with correspondence from the Labour MP Keir Hardie requesting the release of Kitty Marion and enquiring on the prisoners' welfare and their forced feeding. There are also papers in this record which relate to suffragettes in HM Prison, Birmingham: Signed resolutions addressed to the Rt Hon H Gladstone [the Home Secretary] from The National Women's Social and Political Union, Bermondsey, 26 October 1909, for the release (from HM Prison, Birmingham), of an existing suffragette prisoner Mrs Mary Leigh. Medical reports from HM Prison, Birmingham, regarding the forcible feeding of suffragette prisoners held there, including Charlotte Marsh, November 1909
• HO 144/837/145641 – Home Office: Registered papers. Annie Cobden-Sanderson, Eleanor Thompson, Emily Pethick Lawrence (also John Kensit & James Davies). Legal opinion on imprisonment without criminal conviction where there is a default of entering into recognisances. Complaints of treatment in prison by suffragettes, 1906
• HO 144/847/149245 – Home Office: Registered papers. Christabel Pankhurst; Court: Westminster; Offence: Disorderly behaviour; Sentence: £1 or 14 days. Suffragettes' prosecution at Westminster in connection with procession to House of Commons, 1907
• HO 144/871/161505 – Home Office: Registered papers. ALLEN, Helen; KENWOOD, Edith; KEEGAN, Mary; KEEVIL, Gladys; Pankhurst, Emmeline; Parker, Fanny; Court: Westminster; Offence: Obstructing Police - Womens Suffrage; Sentence: 6 weeks; Prison treatment of suffragettes
• HO 144/882/167074 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragettes, 1908
• HO 144/891/171424 – Home Office: Registered papers. Mrs Eleanor Penn Gaskell; Court: Marlborough Street; Offence: Obstruction; Sentence: Recognisances for 6 mths. Miss Annie Smith; Court: Marlborough Street; Offence: Obstruction; Sentence: Recognisances for 6 mths. Suffragists - treatment at the Police Court, 1908
• HO 144/891/171454 – Home Office: Registered papers. 13 suffragettes convicted on 29 Oct 1908. Prison treatment. America and woman suffrage
• HO 144/904/176114 – Home Office: Registered papers. Mrs Emmeline Pethick Lawrence and suffragette prisoners in Holloway Prison, 1909; Emmeline Pethick Lawrence; Court: Bow Street; Offence: Obstructing Police; Sentence: 2 sureties in £20 each or 2 months 2nd Division
• HO 45/10338/139199 – Home Office: Registered papers. Petitions concerning women's suffrage. Independent Labour Party. Men's Committee for Justice To Women. Women's Freedom League. Capt Charles Mevill Gonne. Suffragists' Vigilance League. First issue of "the Suffragist" (No 1, Vol 1), Oct 1909
• HO 45/10345/141956 – Home Office: Registered papers. Imprisonment of Theresa Billington for alleged assault of a police officer during a suffragette demonstration in Cavendish Square on 21 June 1906 outside the house of the Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith
• HO 45/10349/147337 – Home Office: Registered papers. Imprisonment of Bayard Simmons, Elizabeth Davis, Lily Johnstone, Bessie Armstrong, Sarah Morrisey and Auguste Mcdougall, following a suffragette protest on 14 Dec 1906 outside the House of Commons. Newspaper extracts
• HO 45/10389/170808 – Home Office: Registered papers. Marion Wallace-Dunlop. Treatment in prison following convictions in connection with the "rush" on the House of Commons. List of suffragette cases at Bow Street Magistrates Court 14 Oct 1908. Christabel & Emmeline Pankhurst petitions from Holloway Prison. Flora Drummond, Grace Boutelle, Maud Brindley and others
• HO 45/10416/174372 – Home Office: Registered papers. Claim for compensation following damage done during a Suffragette meeting, 1909
• HO 45/10417/183577 – Home Office: Registered papers. Imprisonment of Laura Ainsworth, Patricia Woodlock, Ellen Barwell, Hilda Evelyn Burkett, Leslie Hall, Mabel Capper, Mary Edwards, Mary Leigh & Charlotte Marsh in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, following violent protests
• HO 45/10418/183577 – Home Office: Registered papers. Imprisonment pf Patricia Woodlock, Ellen Barwell, Hilda Evelyn Burkett, Leslie Hall, Mabel Capper, Mary Edwards, Mary Leigh & Charlotte Marsh in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham following violent protests
• HO 45/10597/187632 – Home Office: Registered papers. Protection of polling stations and ballot boxes from Suffragettes
• HO 45/10612/194095 – Home Office: Registered papers. Representation of the People Bill, 1912 (Women Suffrage Bill)
• HO 45/10625/198406 – Home Office: Registered papers. Police shorthand writers' difficulties obtaining admission at meetings of suffragists - arrangements with news agencies to supply precise or verbatim reports of speeches
• HO 45/10645/209446 – Home Office: Registered papers. Speech of Mr Cecil Chapman, Metropolitan Magistrate, in favour of Women's Suffrage, 1911
• HO 45/10678/219337 – Home Office: Registered papers. Women's Social & Political Union suffragette meeting on 23 Jan 1912
• HO 45/10679/220365 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragette charged with damaging Home Office window, 1912, discharged on medical grounds
• HO 45/10689/228470 – Home Office: Registered papers. Meeting in Wales attended by Lloyd George. Suffragettes assaulted by crowd
• HO 45/10695/231366 – Home Office: Registered papers. Police reports on meetings of Women's Social & Political Union in Greater London area. Transcriptions of speeches including Mrs Pankhurst's at Cardiff. WSPU at Royal Albert Hall. Nottingham. Disorder outside Holloway Prison
• HO 45/10700/236680 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragette Annie Kenney convicted of conspiracy at Central Criminal Court
• HO 45/10700/236973 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragettes' meetings, outrages, etc.
• HO 45/10701/236973 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragettes' meetings, outrages, etc.
• HO 45/10712/245464 – Home Office: Registered papers. A suffragist's death resulting from injuries when ejected from a meeting, 1913
• HO 45/10720/249187 – Home Office: Registered papers. Harry Townsend's letter on crowd intimidation of Women's Social & Political Union during their attempted deputation to the King, 1914
• HO 45/11057/234294 – Home Office: Registered papers. Conveyance of female prisoners to prison 1913-1914. Complaints by suffragettes about the conditions under which they were conveyed to prison in police vans in Liverpool, Salford, Glasgow & Holloway. Jane Short, Constance Antonina ("Nina") Boyle, Anna Munro, Charlotte Despard, Elizabeth Knight & Katherine Gray. Drawings of police vans. Provision for Epsom Races, 1922-1923
• HO 45/11088/437465 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragettes - memorandum. Treatment in prison and remission of sentences, 1922
• HO 45/12915 – Home Office: Registered papers. Fingerprinting of prisoners: amendment of instructions to Governors; taking of photographs and fingerprints of suffragette prisoners. (1907-1922). POLICE: Fingerprint identification: claim by Henry Faulds to have discovered system; taking of photographs and fingerprints of suffragette prisoners; illustrated note supplied to prisons and police forces of method for taking fingerprints; Dennis Gunn, New Zealand case. (1907-1922)
• HO 45/24612 – Home Office: Registered papers. Conversations between prisoners and solicitors reported in the press: Phyllis Brady, suffragette; Horatio Bottomley
• HO 45/24624 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragette prisoners: separation from ordinary criminal population at Aylesbury Inebriate Reformatory, 1912
• HO 45/24630 – Home Office: Registered papers. Imprisonment of Emmeline Pankhurst & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence in Holloway Prison, and Frederick William Pethick Lawrence in Brixton Prison, on charges of conspiracy and incitement to cause damage, 1912-1913
• HO 45/24650 – Home Office: Registered papers. Right to present petitions to Hm in person: whether Miss Hope and Capt Gonne for the Suffragette cause are committing an offence, 1913
• HO 45/24665 – Home Office: Registered papers. Suffragette amnesty of August 1914: Index of women arrested 1906-1914. The official watch list of over 1,300 suffragette arrests: those arrested for the cause, with the places and number of times they were arrested
• J 86/270 – Temporary appointment of plain clothes policeman to protect principal probate registry against possible attacks by Suffragettes
• KV 2/1570 – Security service file on Sylvia Estelle Pankhurst. Active in the suffragette movement. An early Communist and, in the late 1930s and 40s, engaged in anti-war and anti-fascist activity. Founder and editor of ‘new Times And Ethiopia News’ In 1936. Very active in promoting the Abyssinian cause and denouncing Italy's imperial activity. Emigrated to Ethiopia, 1944. She remained violently anti-British until her death in 1960. This file mainly covers the later stage of her career: serial 1a: summary 1914-1918; Serial 55a: summary of political activity; Serial 80(3): further summary
• LAB 2/308/ED27051/6/1918 – Employment Department and Employment and Insurance Department: correspondence concerning requests by the Women’s Suffrage Society for representatives to serve on Bolton Local Advisory Committee, 1918
• LO 3/411 – Law Officers' Opinions. Suffragette prisoners, May 1912
• MEPO 2/1016 – Metropolitan Police. Suffragette movement: disturbances and convictions, 1906-1907. Assaults on police and disorderly conduct. Irene Fenwick Miller, Theresa Billington, Christabel Pankhurst. List of defendants following disorderly meeting outside House of Commons, 13 Feb 1910
• MEPO 2/1145 – Metropolitan Police. Suffragettes: legal opinion as to appropriate charge, 1908
• MEPO 2/1222 – Metropolitan Police. Suffragettes: disturbances, 1908
• MEPO 2/1223 – Metropolitan Police. Suffragettes: wilful and persistent obstruction, 1908
• MEPO 2/1308 – Metropolitan Police. Suffragette disturbances: instructions to police, 1910
• MEPO 2/1310 – Metropolitan Police. Augmentation of special branch to protect cabinet ministers from suffragettes, Sept 1909
• MEPO 2/1410 – Metropolitan Police. Suffragettes: prosecution of Emmeline Pankhurst and others, 1910
• MEPO 2/1438 – Metropolitan Police. Suffragette demonstrations: Women's Social & Political Union, 1911. Police procedure for dealing with picketing of ministers' residences by suffragettes
• MEPO 2/1488 – Metropolitan Police. Arrest of 200 named suffragettes for assaults on police and other offences in Nov 1911
• MEPO 2/1527 – Metropolitan Police. Suffragettes: aid to check interference at borough elections, 1912
• MEPO 2/1551 – Metropolitan Police. Suffragettes: accident involving His Majesty’s horse and jockey, 1913
• MEPO 2/1560 – Metropolitan Police. Women's Social & Political Union weekly meetings at London Pavilion Music Hall, leading to arrests of Annie Kenny and other suffragettes on 6 Oct 1913. Police report of meeting and arrests
• MEPO 2/1566 – Metropolitan Police. Suffragettes: supervision of movements by police sergeant on motor cycle
• MEPO 2/1567 – Metropolitan Police. Suffragette demonstration: House of Commons, 1913
• MEPO 2/1568 – Metropolitan Police. Suffragettes: supervision of Westminster Hall entrance, 1913
• MEPO 3/203 – Metropolitan Police. Suffragette complaints against police, witness statements and police responses to claims of violence and heavy-handedness, 1911
• MEPO 3/1787 – Metropolitan Police. Claims for damage caused by suffragettes, 1912
• MEPO 3/2407 – Metropolitan Police. Applications for return of property seized at office of Women's Social and Political Union, a suffragette organisation
• MEPO 5/239 – Metropolitan Police. Estimates of cost of imperial and national services and grants sanctioned by Home Office. Imperial functions include those which are due to the proximity of the Houses of Parliament or to important measures before the House, e.g. Women’s Suffrage
• MT 10/1563/2 – Board of Trade Harbour Department. Suggestion that lighthouses should be closed to the public in view of the destructiveness of the Suffragettes, 1913
• PCOM 7/252 – Prisoners (general), admission: identification, finger impressions, suffragettes and suffragists, default of recognisances and surety prisoners
• PCOM 8/174 – Criminal cases, non-capital: Prison Commission - criminal cases. Emily Wilding Davison: suffragette, ‘Derby Outrage’
• PCOM 8/175 – Criminal cases, non-capital: Prison Commission - criminal cases. Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette
• PCOM 8/176 – Criminal cases, non-capital: Prison Commission - criminal cases. Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, suffragette
• PCOM 8/228 – Prison commission, suffragettes, instructions to prison governors, 1912
• PP 1/349/2 – Privy Purse Office: Jubilee addresses to Queen Victoria. National Society for Women’s Suffrage: Address to Queen Victoria on Her Diamond Jubilee, 1897. Mounted on silk; pen and ink illustrations
• PRO 30/69/1834 – Pamphlets, Women's Movements. Women's Labour League, suffrage; various material on women workers
• T 1/11319/16251 – Inland Revenue Department. Liability of husbands to payment of income tax upon the separate incomes of wives: procedure when wives refuse to supply information. Case of Mark and Dr Elizabeth Wilks. Includes the following account, from the Evening Standard, 19 September, 1912
• T 1/11541/9882 – Treasury, Treasury Board Papers. Instructions to the Customs & Excise Establishment concerning illegal importation from Holland of "The Suffragette", published by the Women's Social and Political Union, 1913. Code word: "Handcuffs, London"
• T 1/11628/9656 – Treasury Board papers. Office of works. Rebuilding of the Refreshment Pavilion, Kew Gardens, and the kiosk, board walk, Regent’s Park, both burnt down by Suffragette incendiaries, 1914
• T 1/11680/22503 – Treasury, Treasury Board Papers. National Gallery, Wallace Collection, Tate Gallery. Protection of contents against damage: temporary closure of galleries; increase of supervisory staff; erection of glass screens. Measures taken in response to a suffragette attack on Velasquez's "Rokeby Venus", 1914
• T 1/11767/8547 – Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Provision of additional police protection, Kew Gardens, to ward off attacks by Suffragettes, especially on the Herbarium, the destruction of which ‘would cause regret in every civilised country’ and Queen Charlotte’s cottage, the demolition of which ‘might give pain in the highest quarters’, 1915
• T 1/12482/7043 – Treasury memoranda. Method of recruitment of staff of the International Secretariat of the League of Nations: representations by the Civil Service Alliance and the London Society of Women’s Suffrage, 1920
• T 172/110 – Deputations and conferences, Chancellor of the Exchequer's Office: deputation from Working Women Suffragists, 1913
• TS 27/19 – Treasury and miscellaneous, Treasury Solicitor. Suffragettes: taxed costs of prosecution of Emmeline Pankhurst and Frederick Lawrence
• TS 27/28 – Treasury and miscellaneous, Treasury Solicitor. Suffragettes: fraudulent assignment for sale of his furniture by Edwy Godwin Clayton to avoid paying his share of prosecution costs in R. v. Harriet Roberta Kerr and others
• TS 27/51 – Treasury and miscellaneous, Treasury Solicitor. Suffragette newspaper: costs of libel action brought by Holloway doctors
• WORK 11/117 – Office of Works and successors, Office of Works: Houses of Parliament: Registered Files. Damage by suffragettes
• WORK 19/25/5 – Royal Palaces, Royal Parks and Public Buildings. Protection from Suffragist attacks. Reports: question of providing funds for payment of extra police and watchmen