Hunger Strike Medal
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The Hunger Strike Medal was a silver medal awarded between August 1909 and 1914 to suffragette prisoners by the leadership of the Women's Social and Political Union. During their imprisonment, many we
Medal awarded to Myra Sadd Brown in 1912
Medal in its presentation case with silver bar for a hunger strike and enamel bar for force-feeding awarded by the WSPU to Mabel Capper
Hunger Strike Medal awarded to Georgina Fanny Cheffins
Charlotte Blacklock's Hunger Strike Medal, Museum of Australian Democracy collection
Emily Davison
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Emily Wilding Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union and a militant fighter for
Hunger Strike Medal
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Emily Davison wearing her Holloway brooch and hunger strike medal, c. 1910–1912
Davison in 1908
A suffragette being force-fed in Holloway prison, c. 1911
Davison in 1912 or 1913