The cat and mouse act passed by liberal government' 1914 Pigeon square dancing

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Lord Nelson's Funeral: the procession on the Thames pulling out from Greenwich Hospital on 8 January 1806

Photographic postcard of leading Suffragettes standing outside a branch shop of the Women's Social and Political Union in Hawick

The section covers the area between Old Barge House Street in the North West

The cat and mouse act passed by liberal government' 1914 Pigeon square dancingPoster 'The cat and mouse act passed by liberal government'. The Prisoner's Temporary Discharge for III Health Act of 1913 meant that imprisoned Suffragettes on hunger strike could be released because of ill health but be re imprisoned once they had recovered. This 'letting them go; then catching them again' earned the measure the popular title of 'The Cat and Mouse Act'. Part of the collection of objects relating to the Suffragette Movement, given by