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Wall art celebrating 100 years since women won the vote, on the wall of The Lord Morpeth pub, Bow, London.
Suffragist leader. The only female statue in Parliament Square. Made by Gillian Wearing it was unveiled in 2018. Images of 55 other leaders in the suffragist movement are engraved around the base. The texture of her clothing is detailed in the sculpture. The banner she is holding says "Courage calls to courage everywhere".
I miss going downtown.
I took this photo from the Bay department store walkway over Seymour Street looking south five years ago this month.
song - David Bowie's "Suffragette City"
The Suffragettes were back at Disneyland for a sun rise performance. This was one of the few images where the light of the rising sun fell on the stage.
This is pretty much straight out of the camera. Just changed the crop, reduced the noise and added a touch of sharpening.
This gold, pearl and amethyst brooch features two particularly fine brilliant cut amethysts and nine seed pearls. It is Edwardian and with its Art Nouveau design, was made in the first decade of the twentieth century. It is very likely a brooch made for a suffragette, featuring two of the three universal suffrage colours of white and purple. It was possibly worn against something green as the representation of the final colour. Brooches and other jewellery like this was a subtle way for suffragettes to communicate their allegiance to the movement with one another.
(Private collection)
Edwardian jewellery is renowned for its delicate, beautifully crafted designs. In contrast to Victorian jewellery, many pieces created during the Art Nouveau period were made in a very feminine fashion, using finer smaller stones and very light settings made possible by using platinum.
The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 18th of March is “jewellery (selective colour)”. I decided to select the purple of the amethysts as my selective colour, and accentuated it to draw out some of the blues that were created in the stone created by the black velvet on which the brooch sits. I hope you like my choice of the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.
A major terrorist incident occurred in the city in 1913, which led to the deaths of two men. During the suffragette bombing and arson campaign of 1912–1914, militant suffragettes of the Women's Social and Political Union carried out a series of politically motivated bombing and arson attacks nationwide as part of their campaign for women's suffrage. In one of the more serious suffragette attacks, a fire was purposely started at Portsmouth dockyard on 20 December 1913, in which two sailors were killed after it spread through the industrial area.
For its time this Arts and Crafts brooch, made in 1910 of eighteen karat gold with three seed pearls and three striking brilliant cut amethyst teardrops, was very avant-garde. Made in a timeless style, it would not look out of place on a woman’s lapel today, more than a century after it was made. Yet what you might not know is that this was more than a pretty bauble for a wealthy Edwardian woman to wear. It in fact has a meaning behind it, but you would need to have been part of the movement it represents at the time to know. This is a piece of Suffragette jewellery, and would have indicated not only that the women wearing it supported women’s suffrage, but was also a member of the Women’s Social and Political Union.
Suffragette jewellery either has direct links to women’s suffrage or pays tribute to the movement. The official colours of the Suffragettes were purple, white and green, and many items of Suffragette jewellery feature peridot, amethyst and diamond or pearls. The Women’s Social and Political Union chose white, purple and green as their member colours: white for purity, purple for dignity and green for hope.
Perhaps the original owner of this brooch wore it on a green jacket, or accessorised a piece of green ribbon with this brooch to complete the tricolour of the Women’s Social and Political Union.
(Private collection)
Edwardian jewellery is renowned for its delicate, beautifully crafted designs. In contrast to Victorian jewellery, many pieces created during the Art Nouveau period were made in a very feminine fashion, using finer smaller stones and very light settings made possible by using platinum.
The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 28th of October is “(a touch of) gold”. I thought this beautiful piece of jewellery, and its symbolic meaning, was worthy of the theme this week. I hope that you like my choice and that it makes you smile.
While The Suffragettes may have ended their current Disney engagement the memories that they have created with their fans will last forever.
A procession to mark 100 years since (some) women got the vote in UK. Women marched with white,purple or green scarves, the colours of the suffragettes.
The town of New Victory Independence Day parade, July 4th 1900.
After winding it's way all around town the parade finally reached it's destination on the boardwalk adjoining Rock Island. It was noted that this year had been very successful as there were no deaths and only a few injuries. One float ended up in the river and disproved the theory that floats float, it sank!. Another float crashed into a store.
The suffragettes caused a kerfuffle when they elbowed their way from the back of the procession to the front but were unable to overtake the Mayor who had a very large and splendid float.
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VICTORIAN EDWARDIAN AMERICAN THEMED SIM. It is somewhere in time, being 1890-1914. All welcome.
Emmeline Pankhurst
St Peter's Square, Manchester. U.K.
Founded in Manchester in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, the aim of the WSPU (the Women’s Social and Political Union) was to secure the right to vote for women in the United Kingdom by any means.
"Des actes et non des mots" (Deeds not Words) était le slogan des suffragettes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette
Voting was important then and its even more important now!
The River Alport did eventually manage to find its way out of Alport Dale!
Alport Castles Farm is the where the suffragette Hannah Mitchell was born in 1871.
The title? I was listening to Come Sail Away as I was editing this.
The Suffragettes were once again back at Tomorrowland Terrace
This is close to straight out the camera. The biggest change was just the crop.
Wave of Nostalgia has a striking shop front. It's themed on strong women and is located in the village of Haworth, home of the Bronte sisters. The inside is filled with beautiful & unique items for all ages. From Suffragette, Feminist and LGBT items to beautiful stationery, the stock is designed by inspiring women, some local, some further afield but all in the UK. Well worth a visit if you are in this lovely place.
The Suffragettes are back at Knott's Berry Farm this summer. I had the Pentax K-3 out with the 300mm Pentax DA*. I would have preferred the Sony but I don't have any long glass for it. I was thinking of getting a Canon 400mm DO f4 for the Sony but I haven't be able to rent one to see how well it adapts to the Sony. Maybe it's time to upgrade the K-3 to the MkIII version. The initial reviews are that it's ISO performance matches my Sony A7III.
I don't know what most people do on a Sunday. I roll out of bed at 0500 so I can catch the first set of a sun rise concert at 0600.
Women's March 2017
Chicago, IL
January 21st, 2017
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
The Suffragettes are back with a summer of music at Knott's Berry Farm. This is from the weekend I had a Sony 100-400mm G-Master. It's a little on the slow side but can render very sharp images.
This collection of crocuses was taken in the churchyard of St Peter's in Bournemouth. Purple, Green and White were the colours of the Suffragette movement. St Peter's is also the final resting place of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who through her book "A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman" laid the foundations for the feminist movement. Her second daughter, Mary Shelley, who wrote "Frankenstein", is also buried there.
A statue of Mary Church Terrell who fought vigorously for women's right to vote. She was also a co-founder of the NAACP. Best wishes to all on this International Women's Day !
And please hold a good thought for those special Grannie's in Ukraine who make a really good homemade Molotov cocktail.
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The Suffragettes are back at Knott's Berry Farm this summer. I had the Pentax K-3 out with the 300mm Pentax DA*. I would have preferred the Sony but I don't have any long glass for it. I was thinking of getting a Canon 400mm DO f4 for the Sony but I haven't be able to rent one to see how well it adapts to the Sony. Maybe it's time to upgrade the K-3 to the MkIII version. The initial reviews are that it's ISO performance matches my Sony A7III.
Oh don't lean on me man,
'Cause you can't afford the ticket
I'm back on Suffragette City
Oh don't lean on me man
'Cause you ain't got time to check it
You know my Suffragette City
Is outta sight she's all right
The Suffragettes were once again back at Tomorrowland Terrace
This is close to straight out the camera. The biggest change was just the crop.
The title? I was listening to Come Sail Away as I was editing this.
I should add that the title is nothing more than the name of the song that I was listening to as I was editing this.
These are the steps outside our our old Town Hall ... where Winston Churchill stood when he was Oldham's MP. And the statue is Annie Kenney ... suffragette from Oldham.
Minnie Lansbury memorial clock A clock on a parade of shops/flats in Bow Road. Minnie Lansbury was a local woman who became part of the Suffragette movement, and became its General Secretary. She was made an Alderman of Poplar in 1919 and in 1920 was one of 30 imprisoned for their part in the Poplar Rates Rebellion (see 866107). It is thought that imprisonment was a factor in her early death at the age of 32 through TB
The statue of Emmeline Pankhurst is a bronze sculpture in St Peter's Square, Manchester, depicting Emmeline Pankhurst, a British political activist and leader of the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom.
And today it was Manchester Pride day and the statue was 'updated'.
Manchester Pride festival is an incredible four-day celebration for LGBTQ+ life that takes place across the city every year over the August Bank Holiday weekend. It took place on 25-28 August 2023. There was no Manchester Pride parade in 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID pandemic, returning in 2022.