Festive Markets, the Bugler Girl and a New Patreon
Find P&S across Glasgow, meet the iconic Clarion Girl and get ready for December’s Patreon launch.
This newsletter was originally sent on 26/11/2025.
We’re feeling festive!!!
How is it the end of the year already? But it IS that time of year, and the P&S elves have been busy creating new Suffragette-themed Christmas Cards! We’re also bringing some exclusive merch to Festive Markets around Glasgow – catch us there if you can.
We also have some festive-themed herstory for you which highlights how artists were always part of the Votes for Women campaign, and finally – we’re launching a Patreon channel which we’re really excited about!
Make this a Feminist Festive Season
If you’re in or around Glasgow over the next few weekends, you might bump into the Protests & Suffragettes crew at Christmas markets all over the city! We’ll have our brand new Suffragette holiday cards – a choice of three different collections – and stocking filler ideas! Here’s our packed schedule:
- 28-30 November – Deck the Halls at SECC Glasgow
- 29 November – Glasgow Women’s Library’s Feminist Festive Fayre
- 6-7 December – Riverside Christmas Market
- 13 December – Govanhill Baths Christmas Market
- 20 December – Byers Road Market
Hope to see you there, but if not – you can check out our new Suffragette-themed Christmas Cards online…
Herstories: the Bugler Girl
Art can be an overlooked aspect of suffrage activism – but many artists turned their talents to creating iconic images for the campaign. The WSPU had the Suffrage Atelier, while the NUWSS had the Artists’ Suffrage League. The images they created were used for newspapers, banners, posters and even Christmas cards.
The Bugler Girl (or Clarion Girl) was designed by illustrator Caroline Watts (1868-1919) to promote the NUWSS procession of June 1908. As the NUWSS was non-violent, they were keen to point out that her sword was sheathed! She later appeared on the front page of NUWSS newspaper The Common Cause in November 1913. But the image was also borrowed by US suffragettes and rebranded in purple, white and green for Women’s Political Union badges.
This year, she got another makeover, thanks to the Protests & Suffragettes creatives! She features in our beautiful Suffrage Angels & Heralds collection of Holiday Cards. Top image via Women’s Library LSE.
Launching soon: Protests & Suffragettes Patreon
We’re about to launch our Patreon on 2nd December, and we’re really excited about it! For a very limited time we’ll be offering you wonderful people big lifetime discounts if you sign up as as a Patreon supporter.
- 40% OFF – if you sign up on launch day
- 25% OFF – for the first week
There are limited slots for the discounts – when they’re gone they’re gone!
This is a fab opportunity to sign up as a monthly supporter of Protests & Suffragettes and help us write women back into Scottish history. Each Tier is stacked with meaningful rewards:
- behind the scenes access and community chats with the P&S team – and special guests!
- early releases
- digital goodies
- exclusive P&S merch
- fund our Educational Resources
- and more…
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