Banner of the Writers' Suffrage League

Banner of the Writers' Suffrage League. Designed by the artist Mary Lowndes and worked by Mrs Herringham the banner was first carried in a procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies on 13 June 1908. The appliqued black and cream velvet rectangular banner has a flattened inverted V in the bottom edge, the word 'Writers' across the top, a black crow with a quill above on a central field, and 'Litera Scripta Manet', inscribed below. This was one of 800 banners carried by over 10,000 women that marched through central London to a rally in the Albert Hall in support of 'votes for women'.