# data[].attributes.body
Libby Carpenter and Tess Donnelly digital printing inspired by the chapel windows

# data[].attributes.body
Yr 13 pupil Ellie Long curating final exhibition

# data[].attributes.headline
Badges inspired by college values and Lowndes colours

# data[].attributes.subject
Badges inspired by college values and Lowndes colours

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Partnering with museums, archives and arts organisations across Greater London, Digital Drama have been working with community groups and artist Becci Kenning of www.art-in-transit.com to create 100 Banners inspired by the suffrage banner collection held in the archives of the Women's Library at LSE.

100 Banners is an artistic response to the campaigns run by Suffragettes and Suffragists in their ambition to achieve women's equal voting rights. The artistic process captures and celebrates the decorative craft skills historically associated with women's art, and explores their political and subversive potential.

To mark the anniversary of the Representation of the People Act, the 100 Banners will be part of the national commemorations and be processed by the makers of the banners at the March4Women on March 4th from Parliament to Trafalgar Square, led by Helen Pankhurst, will feature at the Royal Albert Hall on International Women's Day on March 8th, and at the WOW Festival at the Southbank on the 11th of March 2018. A selection of the 100 Banners will then be displayed at the Royal Albert Hall, the Women's Library at the London School of Economics, the House of Lords and various partner venues around Greater London during 2018.

Project Partners for 100 Banners include; Museum of London, Kensington Royal Palace, Hampton Court Palace, Tower of London, Museum of Croydon, Gunnersbury Park Museum, Bruce Castle Museum, Headstone Museum, Brent Museum, artsdepot, Anstee Bridge, Merton Heritage and Studies Centre and various WI groups across London.

100 Banners is funded by a £95,500 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and £2,900 from the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

Digital Drama's director Kate Valentine; "We are thrilled to have received support thanks to National Lottery players are confident the project will introduce the heritage of suffrage banners to a wider public. The new banners made, inspired by the collection at the Women's Library, will enable their creators to explore the heritage of the women represented and the cause of suffrage they campaigned for ."

Photographs from March4Women in central London featuring some of the 100 Banners

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
100 Banners feature our event at the Royal Albert Hall on London Live on International Women's Day Partnering with museums, archives and arts organisations across Greater London, Digital Drama have been working with community groups and artist Becci Kenning of www.art-in-transit.com

# data[].attributes.headline
Year 10 pupils quietly taking in the space and appreciating the windows. 

# data[].attributes.subject
Year 10 pupils quietly taking in the space and appreciating the windows. 

# data[].attributes.headline
Exciting ideas emerging following the visit to the Women's Library at the LSE.  Pupils are taking inspiration from the suffragettes, year of the girl, girls wearing trousers and the bright colours of the stained glass windows.

# data[].attributes.subject
Exciting ideas emerging following the visit to the Women's Library at the LSE.  Pupils are taking inspiration from the suffragettes, year of the girl, girls wearing trousers and the bright colours of the stained glass windows.

# data[].attributes.headline
L6th G & T  pupils are brainstorming ideas for a project following a visit to the chapel to photograph the windows.

# data[].attributes.subject
L6th G & T  pupils are brainstorming ideas for a project following a visit to the chapel to photograph the windows.

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.processions.co.uk/
Just signed up for this event taking place in London on 10th June.
It is a mass participation piece celebrating 100 years of votes for women. I've also noticed the advert for the event at the bottom of Zara's 'How to make a banner' post.

# data[].attributes.body
Colour symbolism
Black power, mystery, triumph
Blue loyalty, intelligence, trust Brown earth, stability, endurance Dark Blue integrity, knowledge Green hope, renewal
Grey security, intelligence
Lavender femininity, grace
Orange enthusiasm, creativity
Pink love, caring
Violet dignity, power, ambition
Red courage, passion, determination
White purity, light, peace

# data[].attributes.body
Images of Mary Lowndes textiles banners

# data[].attributes.body
‘A banner is a thing to float in the wind, to flicker in the breeze, to flirt its colours for your pleasure…’ Mary Lowndes ‘Banners and Banner-Making’ 1909.

Suffragettes were seen by some as unfeminine. By making banners that incorporated traditional skills such as embroidery, the suffragettes demonstrated that women who demanded the vote were not bereft of ‘feminine accomplishments’. The medium was the message.

Textiles have continued to be used within social and political activism.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Coming Soon Gallery 2 & 3 - Ruthin Craft Centre

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
This workshop will focus on text and textiles. As part of this workshop we would like you to bring along a piece of scrap fabric or an old pillowcase to make your own banner and take away on the day or help make our large banner for the Processions March on Sunday 10 June to mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, which gave the first British women the right to vote.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Core Record FSB - VADS: the online resource for visual arts

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Digital Drama's short film about the history of suffrage banners to mark the 100 year anniversary of the Representation of the People Act and the year that some women in the UK first got the vote. Expert Elizabeth Crawford examines how these beautiful banners were used in the campaign to gain the vote.

# data[].attributes.headline
Suffrage Stories: ‘Silk, Satin and Suffrage’ And Digital Drama’s ‘100 Banners’ Project

# data[].attributes.subject
Suffrage Stories: ‘Silk, Satin and Suffrage’ And Digital Drama’s ‘100 Banners’ Project

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Suffrage Stories: 'Silk, Satin and Suffrage' And Digital Drama's '100 Banners' Project

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
To commemorate the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, 100 Banners are being created by communities across London to feature in various events in the capital to mark the anniversary of women first getting the vote. The brainchild of Digital Drama - you can discover more about the project here.

# data[].attributes.headline
summer term drawing from the stained glass with scholars junior with EZG

# data[].attributes.subject
summer term drawing from the stained glass with scholars junior with EZG

# data[].attributes.headline
Art scholars to view the stained glass project for the dance studio- potential visit to see window being constructed

# data[].attributes.subject
Art scholars to view the stained glass project for the dance studio- potential visit to see window being constructed

# data[].attributes.headline
Honoured on the statue plinth of Millicent Fawcett- Mary Lowndes (1856-1929) Artist, suffragette and founder of Artist Suffrage League in 1909.

# data[].attributes.subject
Honoured on the statue plinth of Millicent Fawcett- Mary Lowndes (1856-1929) Artist, suffragette and founder of Artist Suffrage League in 1909.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
A statue of suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett has been unveiled in London's Parliament Square today.

Fawcett is the first woman to be commemorated with a statue in Parliament Square following a campaign led by activist and writer Caroline Criado Perez.

The bronze casting, created by artist Gillian Wearing, joins eleven other statues commemorating male leaders including Sir Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela.

An all-women team has led the entire production process, something the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan praised as a source of great pride. Ahead of the unveiling, Mr Khan said: "The questions can't be asked now: Are there any talented women sculptures? Are there any talented women project managers? Are there any talented women with ideas? We have thrown those questions out the window."

100 years since some women and all men over 21 got the vote - what now?

Criado Perez launched the campaign after realising none of the statues were of women during a run through the square. She began by organing an open letter to the Mayor calling for a statue of a woman, which was signed by prominent figures including JK Rowling and Emma Watson.

In February, Mr Khan announced the names of 59 people who supported the fight for women's right to vote on the centenary of the Representation of the People Act. The Act allowed some women over 30 and all men over 21 the right to vote.

Mr Khan said: "As part of our #BehindEveryGreatCity campaign I'm really proud to unveil the women and men whose names and portraits will be etched on the plinth of the Millicent Fawcett statue - which will be the first statue of a woman in Parliament Square."

The 59 women and men
Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873-1943)
Medical pioneer, founded Women's Hospital Corps, Chief Surgeon of Endell Street Military Hospital. Niece of Millicent Fawcett.
Dame Margery Irene Corbett Ashby (1882-1981)
Liberal politician and internationalist. Secretary of NUWSS and later President of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance.
Sophia Duleep Singh (1876-1948)
Indian suffragette, goddaughter of Queen Victoria and prominent figure in fight for women's suffrage.
Margaret Ashton (1856-1937)
Chairperson of the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage. Manchester's first woman councillor. Active in women's peace campaigns during First World War.
Minnie Baldock (1864-1954)
ILP member and one of the WSPU's first London members, involved in setting up Canning Town branch, worked as WSPU organiser.
Lady Frances Balfour (1858-1931)
Liberal Women's Suffrage Society and was on the executive committee of the NUWSS.
Lydia Becker (1827-1890)
President of NUWSS prior to Millicent Fawcett and campaigned for voting rights of unmarried women and widows.
Rosa May Billinghurst (1875-1953)
Disabled suffragette who worked for Christabel Pankhurst's campaign in the 1918 election then later joined Women's Freedom League and Suffragette Fellowship.
Helen Blackburn (1842-1903)
Early campaigner for women's rights, particularly the rights of workers.
Nessie Stewart-Brown (1864-1958)
Co-founder of Liverpool Women's Suffrage Society, and led Women's Liberal Federation branches in Liverpool.
Ada Nield Chew (1870-1945)
Working-class, factory worker, promoter of women's trade unions.
Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904)
Irish social reformer and suffragist.
Jessie Craigen (1835-1899)
Working-class suffrage speaker.
Emily Wilding Davison (1872-1913)
WSPU organiser and suffragette. Died after being hit by George V's horse at the Epsom Derby.
Charlotte Despard (1844-1939)
Irish social reformer, NUWSS and then WSPU from 1906 and then WFL, and later pacifist
Flora Drummond (1878-1949)
WSPU 'General', joined the Pankhursts' Women's Party in 1917.
Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918)
Secretary of Married Women's Property Committee, Secularist and sexual radical, lived in 'free love' union with Ben Elmy. Founding member of Women's Franchise League, and the Women's Emancipation Union.
Isabella Ford (1855-1924)
Trade unionist and member of the ILP, helped found Leeds Women's Suffrage Society; executive of the NUWSS, and pacifist.
Henrietta Franklin (1866-1964)
Education reformer and leader of Jewish League for Woman Suffrage.
Mary Gawthorpe (1881-1973)
Women's Labour League then WSPU, co-founder of radical newspaper The Freewoman.
Teresa Billington-Greig (1877-1964)
School teacher and one of first paid members of WSPU.
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda (1883-1958)
WSPU, secretary of Newport branch, founder of Time and Tide and the Six Point Group, inherited father's title and fought for rights of women to sit in House of Lords.
Anna Haslam (1829-1822)
Co-founder of the Irishwomen's Suffrage and Local Government Association.
Rev Claude Hinscliff (1875-1964)
Member of Men's League for Women's Suffrage, founded the Church League for Women's Suffrage with his wife Gertrude. He officiated at Emily Wilding Davison's funeral.
Laurence Housman (1865-1959)
Radical playwright, socialist, pacifist and founding member of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage.
Elsie Inglis (1864-1917)
Scottish doctor and suffragist. Women's Liberal Federation and Federation of Scottish Suffrage Societies, founder Scottish Women's Hospitals.

Working-class suffragette from Manchester, member of the WSPU and one of the most prominent women in the movement.
Minnie Lansbury and George Lansbury (1889-1922)
George was the most well-known male supporter of women's suffrage in Britain and helped form the East London Federation of Suffragettes which Minnie joined.
Frederick and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Editors of Votes for Women; Provided the premises for WSPU offices in London in 1906.
Mary Lowndes (1856-1929)
Artist, suffragette and founder of Artist Suffrage League in 1909.
Edith How-Martyn (1875-1954)
Suffragist and birth control campaigner.
Catherine Marshall (1880-1961)
Suffrage organiser.
Mary MacArthur (1880-1921)
Scottish trade unionist and suffragist, National Federation of Women Workers. Stood for Parliament in 1919 but was defeated.
Chrystal MacMillan (1872-1937)
Scottish Liberal politician, barrister, and NUWSS, and internationalist.
Eva McLaren (1852-1921)
Suffragist and leading member of Women's Liberal Federation.
Priscilla Bright McLaren (1815-1906)
Anti-slavery movement and women's suffrage. Executive member of NUWSS.
Edith Mansell-Moullin (1859-1941)
Founded the Cymric Suffrage Union for Welsh women.
Dora Montefiore (1851-1933)
Served on executive of the NUWSS and then joined WSPU and Women's Tax Resistance League, whose members refused to pay taxes.
Catherine Courtauld Osler (1854-1924)
President of Birmingham Women's Suffrage Society.
The Pankhursts: Emmeline, Christabel, Sylvia and Adela
Led the suffragette movement.
Agnes Pochin (1825-1908)
First woman to speak about women's suffrage on a public platform.
Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946)
First woman to be elected to Liverpool City Council, later Independent MP.
Sarah Reddish (1850-1928)
Bolton-based trade unionist and suffragette.
Annot Robinson (1874-1925)
Born in Scotland, member of NUWSS and pacifist.
Esther Roper and Eva Gore-Booth
Involved in Manchester suffrage movement. Eva Gore-Booth was the younger sister of Countess Markievicz, who in turn was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons. As an Irish Nationalist, she did not take her seat.
Lolita Roy (mrs P L Roy)
President of the London Indian Union from 1908
Agnes Maude Royden (1876-1956)
Settlement work in Liverpool then London, NUWSS, edited Common Cause, Church League for Women's Suffrage, preacher, pacifist, later campaigned for ordination of women.
Julia Scurr (1873-1927)
Socialist, Poor Law Guardian, East London Federation of Suffragettes, worked closely with Slyvia Pankhurst.
Maud Lady Selborne (1858-1950)
Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association.
Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington (1877-1946)
Irish nationalist and suffragist. Founder of the Irish Women's Franchise League.
Ray Strachey (1887-1940)
Liberal, NUWSS, writer, unsuccessfully stood for Parliament.
Helena Swanwick (1864-1939)
NUWSS, editor of Common Cause; internationalist, pacifist. Mainly metropolitan base.
Ellen Wilkinson (1891-1947)
NUWSS in Manchester, Labour MP for Jarrow.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Millicent Fawcett statue unveiling: the women and men whose names will be on the plinth

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
A statue of suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett has been unveiled in London's Parliament Square today. Fawcett is the first woman to be commemorated with a statue in Parliament Square following a campaign led by activist and writer Caroline Criado Perez.

# data[].attributes.headline
First female statue in Parliament Square unveiled

# data[].attributes.subject
First female statue in Parliament Square unveiled

# data[].attributes.body
Millicent Fawcett
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/apr/24/millicent-fawcett-statue-unveiled-in-parliament-square-in-pictures

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
A statue commemorating the life of the suffragist, Millicent Fawcett, will be unveiled opposite Parliament later.

She campaigned for women's right to vote during the early 20th Century and is seen as one of the most influential feminists of the past 100 years.

The bronze casting, which has been created by the artist Gillian Wearing, features her holding a banner reading "courage calls for courage everywhere."

It is the first statue of a woman to be erected in Parliament Square.

Prime Minister Theresa May, who will attend Tuesday's unveiling, said the work would serve as a reminder of Dame Millicent's extraordinary life and legacy.

The statue was commissioned as part of this year's centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act - which gave some women over the age of 30 the vote.

It followed a campaign by the feminist writer and activist Caroline Criado Perez, who also led last year's successful effort to get Jane Austen to appear on the 10 pound note.

She said she came up with the idea for the statue when she was out running on International Women's Day in 2016 and realised the only historical figures commemorated there were men.

The 11 existing statues include Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, William Gladstone and Mahatma Gandhi.

Dame Millicent Fawcett formed the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in 1897. The organisation used peaceful tactics to campaign, including non-violent demonstrations, petitions and the lobbying of MPs.

They shared the same aims, but had different methods, to the suffragettes - the more radical group led by Emmeline Pankhurst.

Dame Millicent died in 1929, a year after women were granted the vote on equal terms to men.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
A statue commemorating the life of the suffragist, Millicent Fawcett, will be unveiled opposite Parliament later. She campaigned for women's right to vote during the early 20th Century and is seen as one of the most influential feminists of the past 100 years.

# data[].attributes.headline
Unfortunately we have done all of our scheduled work on women's suffrage (see exemplar Road Maps below), and we are pushing ahead with the Causes of WWII. However, we will certainly build Mary Lowndes into our suffrage work in Michalemas/Lent term next academic year. We will consider questions such as 'Why is Mary Lowndes historically significant?' and 'How important was ML in assisting in the wider fight for female suffrage?'

# data[].attributes.subject
Unfortunately we have done all of our scheduled work on women's suffrage (see exemplar Road Maps below), and we are pushing ahead with the Causes of WWII. However, we will certainly build Mary Lowndes into our suffrage work in Michalemas/Lent term next academic year. We will consider questions such as 'Why is Mary Lowndes historically significant?' and 'How important was ML in assisting in the wider fight for female suffrage?'

# data[].attributes.headline
This is an excellent format for sharing ideas. I think it is really exciting that we are celebrating Mary Lowndes as a College, on the centenary of the 1918 franchise extension that she helped make happen.

# data[].attributes.subject
This is an excellent format for sharing ideas. I think it is really exciting that we are celebrating Mary Lowndes as a College, on the centenary of the 1918 franchise extension that she helped make happen.

# data[].attributes.body
TNML

# data[].attributes.headline
DIGITAL ALBUM OF LOWNDES' DESIGNS AND WORK BY ARTISTS' SUFFRAGE LEAGUE

# data[].attributes.subject
DIGITAL ALBUM OF LOWNDES' DESIGNS AND WORK BY ARTISTS' SUFFRAGE LEAGUE

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/albums/72157692028437514

# data[].attributes.body
MAY 24th 2018 11:00-13:00
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Library/Collections/Collection-highlights/The-Womens-Library

# data[].attributes.body
Quote on processions

# data[].attributes.body
objectives and timeline

# data[].attributes.body
Old Eastbournian 2010

# data[].attributes.body
Poster and project launch