Florence Olivia Tunks was a militant suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) who with Hilda Burkitt engaged in a campaign of arson in Suffolk in 1914 for which they both received prison sentences.
The Pavilion on Britannia Pier in Great Yarmouth before and after the arson attack in 1914
Evaline Hilda Burkitt was a British suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). A militant activist for women's rights, she went on hunger strike in prison and was the first suffragette to be forcibly-fed. Between 1909 and 1914 she was force-fed 292 times and was the last woman to be so treated in Holloway Prison. She was a recipient of the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal.
Winson Green Prison in the 1920s
The Pavilion on Britannia Pier in Great Yarmouth before and after the arson attack in 1914
Hilda Burkitt c.1905: the 2018 artwork was based on this photograph by her sister Ida Lillian Burkitt