The Modern Inquisition c.1910 Frame:none 8cm x Width 10

8cm x  Width 10

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The 'Prisoner's Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health Act' of 1913 meant that imprisoned suffragettes on hunger-strike could be released because of ill-health

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The bridge in the foreground is busy with pedestrians and coaches and two sail boats can be seen in the river on the right

The Modern Inquisition c.1910 Frame:none 8cm x Width 10The Modern Inquisition Treatment of Political Prisoners under a Liberal Government.' Marion Wallace Dunlop was incarcerated in Holloway Prison for defacing St Stephen's Chapel. In June 1909 she started a hunger strike to protest being refused political prisoner status. Other suffragette prisoners quickly took up the strike. By December one hundred and ten suffragettes were refusing food. To break the strikes, the government insisted all prisoners be