Record

Performance TitleWomen's Social and Political Union (WSPU) - Patriotic Meeting and Celebration of the Woman's Suffrage Victory (Suffragettes)
Performance Date16 March 1918
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time15:00
Main PerformersMrs Emmeline Pankhurst,
Miss Christabel Pankhurst,
Mrs Drummond,
Miss Annie Kenney - speakers
Orchestra or BandThe London Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsW H Reed
Set ListTone Poem: 'Phaeton', Saint-Saens,
'Graceful Dance' from Henry VIII, Sullivan,
'Carnival Overture', Glazounow,
Overture 'La Patrie', Bizet,
'Marseillaise',
'O God, Our Help in Ages Past'
Performance NotesSpeakers included Emmeline Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst, Mrs Drummond and Annie Kenney. The Pankhurst's had formed a new party called the Women's Party after gaining the vote.

"A meeting of the Women's Party was held at the Royal Albert Hall yesterday afternoon to celebrate the Women's Suffrage victory. A resolution was put to the meeting stating that the Women's Party would pledge themselves to use their political power in promoting the victory of Britain and her allies. It recognised that the primary duty of women citizens in this great crisis is to defeat pro-Germanism and Bolshevism on the industrial as well as the political front, and called on the Government, the captains of industry, and patriotic working men to cooperate in retaining women in the factories and workshops during and after the war on the basis of the equal right to work and equal pay for equal work."
(The Times, 19 March 1918)

Seats in the gallery were free.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1918/12),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1918/5),
Digital Advertisment
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/9691XL91b_Qoo
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/6/1918/5The Women's Party - Mass Meeting16 March 1918
RAHE/1/1918/12The Women's Party - Celebration of the Women Suffrage Victory16 March 1918
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Idamolienit_XWomen's Social and Political Union (WSPU) -Patriotic Meeting and Celebration of the Woman's Suffrage Victory - Suffragette Meeting1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/4220Pankhurst; Dame; Christabel Harriette (1880-1958); Suffragette, co-founder of Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
DS/UK/3404Pankhurst; Emmeline (15 July 1858-14 June 1928); British political activist and organizer of the British suffragette movement
DS/UK/3256Drummond; Flora McKinnon (1878-1949); British suffragette
DS/UK/5009Kenney; Annie (1879-1953); English suffragette
DS/UK/130London Symphony Orchestra (LSO); 1904-; English orchestra
DS/UK/1739Reed; William Henry 'Billy' (1876-1942); English violinist, teacher,composer, conductor, biographer
DS/UK/5875The Women's Party; fl 1918; British women's political party
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