Emmeline Pankhurst's arrest at Buckingham Palace Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Emmeline Pankhurst's arrest at Buckingham Palace NPG x137688
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Central Press
On 21 May 1914, Emmeline Pankhurst led a deputation of 200 women to Buckingham Palace. Watched by large crowds, they were met by 2000 police officers, some on horseback. Amid violent scenes, over sixty people were arrested and numerous women were injured. This photograph was widely reproduced, and shows Pankhurst, weakened by hunger-strikes and force feeding, struggling in the arms of the police officer Inspector Rolfe (1868-1914). Outraged at their brutal treatment that day, suffragettes enacted reprisal attacks. In the years after the campaign, Pankhurst... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










