Spy pictures of suffragettes revealed (Terrorist?)

[impeach the gop]

Photos uncovered by the
National Archives show how the
police spied on the suffragettes.
These covert images - perhaps
the UK's first spy pictures -
have gone on display to mark
the centenary of the
votes-for-women movement.

Ninety years ago, a Scotland Yard
detective submitted an unusual
equipment request.

It was passed up the chain,
scrutinised, reviewed and finally
rubber-stamped in Whitehall itself.
Scotland Yard duly became the
proud owner of a Ross Telecentric camera lens. And at a cost to the
taxpayer of £7, 6s and 11d, secret police photographic surveillance was
born.

Within weeks, the police were using it against what the government then
regarded as the biggest threat to the British Empire: the suffragettes.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3153024.stm

[DBoon]

1. Nice quotes

"I think we take for granted what they fought for," says Ms Tulloch. "One of the images we found shows a lone woman on a cart, surrounded by 1,000 men.

"The courage these women showed was remarkable."

[LoneStarLiberal]

2. Read Sylvia Pankhurst's

"Suffragette Movement" (1931)

or

Mary's Davis' biography "Sylvia Pankhurst" (1999)

Both great books.

[Ms. Clio]

3. kick for women's suffrage

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