On This Day 4 June 1913, Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison ducked under the railings and ran in front of the King's horse Anmer. Her death garnered huge publicity for the suffrage movement.
First picture (Museum of London) taken by Christina Broom a few years earlier at the Prisoner's Pageant on 23 July 1910. At the head of the Pageant are key members of the Women's Social and Political Union, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Sylvia Pankhurst and Emily Wilding Davison- all former prisoners.
Christina Broom ran a Stationers shop at 87 Streatham Hill where she and her husband Albert sold postcards of her pictures. She is credited as the first female press photographer.
First picture (Museum of London) taken by Christina Broom a few years earlier at the Prisoner's Pageant on 23 July 1910. At the head of the Pageant are key members of the Women's Social and Political Union, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Sylvia Pankhurst and Emily Wilding Davison- all former prisoners.
Christina Broom ran a Stationers shop at 87 Streatham Hill where she and her husband Albert sold postcards of her pictures. She is credited as the first female press photographer.
