Source: London School of Economics and Political Science

These items relating to her life and death are held in the archives of the Women¡¯s Library at the London School of Economics.

They have now been made available in an online exhibition commemorating the centenary of Davison¡¯s fatal final protest, and as part of a programme to make more widely accessible the UK¡¯s primary resource for studying women¡¯s history and the women¡¯s movement.

Davison was born in 1872 in Blackheath, southeast London, and studied at what was then Royal Holloway College and the University of Oxford. In 1906 she joined the Women¡¯s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the leading militant organisation campaigning for women¡¯s suffrage.

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Davison¡¯s participation in public protests led to eight short periods of incarceration in Holloway Prison, where she went on hunger strike and resisted force-feeding.

Shown here are an example of the hate mail Davison received, this one sent by ¡°an Englishman¡±; her race card; her unused return train ticket from Epsom to London Victoria; the WSPU flag that was found on her body; and the programme for her funeral service.

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The Emily Wilding Davison Centenary online exhibition can be viewed .

Send suggestions for this series on the treasures, oddities and curiosities owned by universities across the world to matthew.reisz@tsleducation.com