Emmeline Pankhurst leading a deputation

Emmeline Pankhurst leads a deputation of Suffragettes to the House of Commons, 13th February 1908. The spontaneous deputation occured after a Suffragette meeting at Caxton Hall, where it had been learnt that no mention of women's suffrage was to be made in the King's Speech. Emmeline Pankhurst can be seen in the photograph carrying a scroll of paper on which was written the resolution of the meeting. Here she is accompanied by Minnie Baldock, Annie Kenney and Gladice Keevil walking from Caxton Hall to Parliament, her walk made more difficult by an injury she sustained on her leg the previous month (at a Devon by-election) in an altercation with Liberal party supporters. Minutes after this photo was taken Emmeline was arrested on the charge of obstructing a policeman. The following day she received a sentence of six weeks in Holloway prison, a sentence which she served in full.