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![[Flag of Suffragette Movement]](../images/g/gb_suffr1.gif)
image by Marc Pasquin, 4 July 2007
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In the UK, green, white and purple were the colours of the Women's Social and
Political Union, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, just one of several organisations
involved in the suffrage movement, but perhaps the most militant.
The suffragette banners that are part of the Fawcett Library collection (http://www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk
although there are none shown currently on the website) in London Metropolitan
University show a variety of colours and symbols. The Women's Freedom league had
a banner in green, yellow and white; the Married Women's Association has one in
green and white; that of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship
is green, red and white; one of the banners of the National Union of Women's
Suffrage Societies is green, gold and white, but another is red and green. Many
banners commemorated famous women, and bore suitable colours and symbolism
according to whoever was being commemorated.
The book to read on suffragette flags is, 'The spectacle of women: imagery of
the suffrage campaign 1907-14' by Lisa Tickner (London, Chatto and Windus, 1987)
Ian Sumner, 18 March 2004
In "100 Years of Women's Banners" there are
a lot of women's flags and banners, including a note on the colours of
suffragists (green and white and scarlet) and suffragettes (green and purple and
white).
Marcus Schmöger, 23 March 2004
![[Flag of Suffragette Movement]](../images/g/gb_suffr2.gif)
image by Marc Pasquin, 4 July 2007
On an episode of the Antiques Roadshow, a woman brought some memorabilia
relating to the suffragettes. One of these was a colour picture showing a woman
holding a flag wrapped around a pole. While the orientation of the flag is
unclear, it is clearly divided green-white-purple. It might be horizontally
divided (as shown at top of page) but another item that was brought was a medal
issued by the organisation given to women who participated in a hunger strike,
the ribbon of which was divided vertically green-white purple.
Marc Pasquin, 4 July 2007
A photo in the Museum of London, dated 1914, shows a group of suffragettes
with a flag vertically divided, see:
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/piclib/pages/bigpicture.asp?id=1005
Jan Oskar Engene, 5 July 2007