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Suffragette-defaced penny

A History of the World in 100 Objects

CHAPTER

The Seventh Bronze Penny

A campaigner has hammered the letters into the surface of the penny one by one, using a separate punch for each letter. How permissible is this kind of violence in the pursuit of civil rights? Suffragettes embraced many tactics that can still shock us now. The most violent self inflicted action was when emily davison was killed as she famously threw herself in front of the king's horse at the derby.

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