workingclasshistory:

On this day, 9 May 1914, suffragettes battled police who were attempting to raid a meeting on women’s rights in Glasgow, Scotland. Police trying to storm the hall found themselves hit with a barrage of flying flowerpots, tables and chairs, while audience members and jiu-jitsu-trained bodyguards armed themselves with clubs, batons, poles, planks of wood and even a revolver loaded with blanks and fought off officers. As they attempted to arrest the speakers, they were also slowed by barbed wire which had been hidden in the garlands bedecking the stage.
Pictured: a demonstration of suffragette jiu-jitsu
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