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Our zine, posters, and Suffragette Playing Cards make great gifts! You can also donate to help us give free Education Packs to schools – or purchase one yourself.
We’ve worked for years to develop these resources on Scotland’s Suffrage History, partnering with preeminent scholars and community groups to research women who campaigned across the country. These amazing activists are featured in these beautiful, robustly researched resources.
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Suffragette Christmas Cards: The B&W Collection
Tartan, Protest & Christmas Past
Bring history to the holiday table with this bold and beautiful set of five Black & White suffragette photographs — reimagined for the festive season. From bell-ringing Dundee defiance to tartan-clad celebrations, this collection highlights the women who led Scotland’s fight for justice, citizenship, and equity.
Every image has been carefully selected from major archives and adapted to create a modern, powerful holiday card that foregrounds women’s histories.
Your purchase helps us get more free educational resources into schools across Scotland — bringing these stories to the next generation of changemakers.
Pack of 5 cards on smooth 25gsm paper with recycled paper envelopes. The inside greeting varies (see below) with plenty of space for your own holiday message. These beautiful cards are fully recyclable.
📦 Product Overview
- Format: A6 folded card (148 × 105 mm)
- Contents: 5 designs. Set of 5
- Inside messages vary: Set includes 2 blank cards, 1 ‘Have a Braw Christmas’, 1 ‘Lang May Yer Lum Reek’, 1 ‘Merry Christmas to You and Yours’
- Materials: High-quality, luxurious but durable specialist greeting card stock, white, matte finish.
- Envelope: Recycled brown craft envelope, 100% recycled fibres, gummed diamond flap
- Back text: Suffragette Cards, Protests and Suffragettes, QR code
- Printing: Full colour, eco-friendly vegetable oil inks, UK-based printer with environmental ethos
🎨IMAGE DETAILS
- Bessie piping in the Procession (c.1911) — Young piper Bessie Watson, aged 9, leads a WSPU march in London. She piped outside Calton Jail to encourage imprisoned suffragettes. Inside
- Annie’s Arboretum (1908) — Annie Kenney plants an evergreen tree honouring women jailed for the cause of Votes for Women. She was a working-class suffragette and hunger-strike medal recipient.
- Census Sleepers (1911) — Women boycott the Census by sleeping on floors and in public spaces to protest their inability to vote.
- The Bell-Ringer of Dundee (1908) — Dorothy Moloney drowns out MP Winston Churchill with her bell after he refuses to apologise to suffragettes.
- Ye Mauna Tramp (1908) — Scottish suffragettes welcome Mary Phillips home from prison, dressed in tartan with a banner declaring “YE MAUNA TRAMP ON THE SCOTCH THISTLE LADDIE.”
