General Offices, WSPU Lincolns Inn House

The General offices at Women's Social and Political Union Headquarters, Lincoln's Inn House, Kingsway. In 1912 WSPU headquarters moved from Clement's Inn to Lincoln's Inn. The move represented a split in the WSPU as Fred and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence were purged from the leadership by the Pankhursts as a result of a disagreement with regards tactics and policy. Whilst the Pethick-Lawrnces remained with their supporters at Clement's Inn where they continued to publish Votes for Women, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and their supporters ran the 'official' WSPU from the new premises at Lincoln's Inn where they launched a new weekly newspaper, The Suffragette edited by Christabel.
This postcard, one in a series, depicting various departments and offices at Lincoln's Inn reveal the scale and sophistication of the WSPU organisation, that employed both salaried and volunteer staff and used the most up to date office equipment and technology such as duplicating machines, telephones and typewriters.