Credits & Bibliography

Credits

Exhibition curator & booklet texts: Petra Hofmann (College Librarian, St John’s College)
Images: Sophie Bacchus-Waterman (Special Collections Photographer, St John’s College) photographed all images except for the following:
Colin Dunn (Scriptoria) photographed the images on pages 7, 75 (middle & right), 79, 81 (top), and the back-cover.
Images on page 34: Top right: ‘Meeting of Women’s Social & Political Union (WSPU) leaders, c. 1906-c.1907’, London School of Economics Library Flickr Gallery, https://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary /22755473290/in/album-72157660822880401/ [no known copy right restrictions], accessed 22 July 2024. Bottom: ‘Christabel Pankhurst, Flora Drummond and Emmeline Pankhurst in court, 1908’, London School of Economics Library Flickr Gallery, https://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/ 22531899479/in/album-72157660822880401/ [no known copy right restrictions], accessed 22 July 2024.

Special thanks go to the Oxford Conservation Consortium for their help with the installation of the exhibition.

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