The 1913 Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health) Act, colloquially known as the Cat and Mouse Act, represented a controversial legislative response to the challenges posed by the suffragette movement in early 20th-century Britain.
While the Fringe rages on in Edinburgh, Scotland's art capital, it's in Glasgow where a deeply connected community of artists thrives. The 'creative quarter', as artist Diane Dawson calls it, pulsates with life in the city's hidden belly.
By Emery: Zaida Ben-Yúsuf, born 1869, was a New York portrait photographer, famed for her artistic and striking portraits and work in the arts, fashion, and theatre world contributing to photography’s place in modernism and establishment as an art form.
By Paula Velllet: "Janet Jevons” was a photographic partnership between Ruby Caroline Jevons (1894-1974) and Emilie Janet Tyrell (1887-1972) who worked together in London portrait studios throughout the 1920s and 30s.