Women’s Social and Political Union medal
This Women’s Social and Political Union medal for valour was awarded to Mary Richardson, the Canadian-born militant suffragette who, in protest at the re-arrest of Emmeline Pankhurst in March 1914, slashed the ‘Rokeby’ Venus with an axe at the National Gallery.
In the photo right she is shown being led away by police after attacking the Velazquez when she famo…