The suffragette housemaid Spo British artillerymen loading a gun

British artillerymen loading a gun with a shell on which the message a busting time this Christmas has been painted

Plate 14 from La Vraye Science de la Pourtraicture Descrite & DemonstrÚe by Jean Cousin (Paris

Headlamps are acetylene gas with additional oil side-lamps

A boy standing behind a large basket of apples offering apples to passers by

The suffragette housemaid Spo British artillerymen loading a gunThe suffragette housemaid, 1908. A suffragette wearing a pinafore advertising a protest on London's Victoria Embankment. The campaign to secure the vote for women in Britain saw women adopting a range of protests, direct action and civil disobedience, for which many were imprisoned. Partial suffrage was achieved in 1918, with all women finally gaining the right to vote ten years later, in 1928.