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Emmeline Pankhurst's Arrest at Buckingham Palace

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On 21 May 1914, Emmeline Pankhurst led a deputation of 200 women to Buckingham Palace. Watched by large crowds, they were met by 2,000 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 stood as a Conservative parliamentary candidate, and her statue was unveiled in Westminster in 1930.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Emmeline Pankhurst's Arrest at Buckingham Palace

Date

1914

Medium

vintage print

Measurements

H 20.3 x W 15.2 cm

Accession number

x137688

Acquisition method

purchased, 2013

Work type

Photograph

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