This week sees International Women’s Day on 8 Msrch

This poster, created in 1914 as an advertisement for The Suffragette newspaper, is a timely reminder of what women endured to gain the right to vote. It was designed in response to the infamous Prisoners' Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health Act  of 1913. Imprisoned women on hunger strike  were released early on the grounds of ill health, but then re imprisoned when they were strong enough for the force feeding to begin all over again.  Critics of the government ’s handling of the situation called it the Cat and Mouse Act, in reference to the way a cat toys with a mouse before killing it.   

 It also reminded me to remind readers to get out there and vote  https://bit.ly/plinth-vote for Ruth Ewan’s marvellous Believe in Discontent,  (see blog post Friday 1 March) to fill Trafalgar Square’s  Fourth Plinth.  

See and Buy the Cat and Mouse Poster here