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Suffragists

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  • Reginald McKenna as British Home Secretary asking Æsculapius for help with the microbe "Militancy"; referring to political militancy. Wood engraving.
  • Railway carriages of a train representing the year 1880 are hit by an explosion caused by women. Coloured wood engraving by Yves et Barret, 1879.
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    Medical students dressed as suffragettes chain themselves to railings of London University to protest at the anticipated closure of the Royal Free Hospital Medical School as a result of the Flowers Report. Photograph by Associated Newspapers, ca. 1980.

    | Date: [1980?] | Reference: 583218i
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    Medical students dressed as suffragettes and Edwardian toffs chain themselves to railings of London University to protest at the anticipated closure of the Royal Free Hospital Medical School as a result of the Flowers Report. Photograph by Epoque, 1980.

    | Date: [1980?] | Reference: 778394i
    • Books

    The militant suffragettes / Antonia Raeburn ; introduction by J.B. Priestley.

    Raeburn, Antonia. | Date: 1973
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    Railway carriages of a train representing the year 1880 are hit by an explosion caused by women. Coloured wood engraving by Yves et Barret, 1879.

    | Date: 1879 | Reference: 36616i
    • Books

    Suffrage science / [editor, Brona McVittie ; produced by the Public Engagement, Media & Grants Facility MRC Clinical Sciences Centre].

    | Date: [2011]
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