The museum’s collection, the majority of which was donated by ex-Suffragette prisoners, provides a unique insight into the lives of those who were prepared to risk arrest and imprisonment for the cause. The project has enabled us to digitise and make available for the first time entire scrapbooks compiled by Suffragettes. Hundreds of pages showing press clippings, personal correspondence and photographs reveal the life of the Suffragettes.
The scrapbooks include that of the convicted arsonist Kitty Marion, who saved newspaper articles documenting the crimes she committed in support of "Votes for Women".