Sylvia Pankhust

1882 - 1960
Attended Royal College of Art. Left to join WSPU. Thrown out of WSPU
Founded East London Federation of Suffragettes (with others) - composed of working class women, campaigned for women's suffrage and for social change in the period 1912-1920
Owned and edited weekly paper The Women’s Dreadnought (later, The Worker’s Dreadnought)
Continued campaigning for the vote during WW1
Women's Peace Army
Published The New Times and Ethiopia News, from 1936

Wreck of The Titanic

Memorial Tissue
Collection of Kevin Varty. Photo K.V.
In Memory of the Captain, Crew and Passengers who lost their lives by the Wreck of the Titanic
Yet again we hope to meet them
When our days of life are fled
And with joy in heaven to great them
Where no tears are ever shed
Royal Sympathy - the King and Queen and the Disaster
Local List of Crew

Palantine Printings label

Royal Wedding

Commemorative Tissue
Collection of Vevin Varty. Photo K.V.
Souvenir in Commemoration of the Royal Wedding between H.R.H. Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles at Westminster Abbey, 28th February 1922. All Blessings and Happiness to them.

My Dear Sister

Funerary Portrait.
Collection of Kevin Varty. Photo K.V.
In Loving Memory of My Dear Sister, Gone but Not Forgotten
Photograph taken of the body; detail of eyes and features painted on. This practice was more common in America than Britain.

Our Lady of Ransom

Commemorative tissue.
Collection of Kevin Varty. Photo K.V.
Guild of Our Lady of Ransom, Souvenir in Commemoration of The Solemn Procession to Westminster Cathedral to Pray for Peace and for the Dead, on Sunday, September 20th, 1914 at 3pm, starting from Lincoln's Inn Fields

Remember The Lusitania

Commemorative tissue, printed in black, colour added.
Collection of Kevin Varty. Photo K.V.
Remember The Lusitania, the World's Most Popular Steam Ship, Torpedoed and Sunk by German Submarine on Friday, May 7th, 1915, Eight miles from the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, and 160 miles off Fishguard. There were 1906 souls on board. There were 764 saved. Victims 1142. The liner left New York on Saturday, May 1st

Hand Drawing

Drawing by Serena on Gail's hand and arm

Josephine Butler

Hiba

Hiba Daraghmeh
Suicide Bomber

Memorial Tissue

Memorial Tissue, printed 1930. Black ink printed on to tissue, then coloured by hand.
From Kevin Varty's collection of Memoriam and Funerary items.

Mary Astell's Proposal

A Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest
1694
Mary Astell

Westway Westway Westway

Under the Westway on Grand Union Canal

Westway Westway Westway

Under the Westway on Grand Union Canal