MUSEUM PIECE: Do you know what this object from Newport Museum is?
IF you know what this week’s item from the collection at Newport’s Museum and Art Gallery is, leave your comments here.
Last week we showed you a Suffragette banner.
Before the First World War, the Newport branch of the Women’s Social and Political Suffrage Union was one of the most active in Wales. This banner would have been taken on demonstrations to campaign for female suffrage.
The portcullis represents Parliament and the arrow is a convict’s arrow, symbolising that suffragettes had been imprisoned for their beliefs.
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