The City of London still provides us with a very visible, physical representation of policing’s response to the IRA’s mainland bombing campaign of the 1990s: the chicanes, police boxes and CCTV cameras at its entry points that collectively form its protective ‘Ring of Steel’. Terrorism though had announced its arrival in the City some 20 years before the bombs at St Mary Axe and Bishopsgate, with the detonation of an IRA car bomb outside the Old Bailey in 1973 — or so living memory would have us believe. Two seemingly innocuous artefacts in the City of London Police Museum — a milk-can and a Keen’s mustard tin — help give the lie to this perception and provide us with tangible evidence of an earlier, often overlooked bombing campaign. These two everyday household items once contained ‘infernal machines’ — or bombs — that were planted at iconic locations in the City in 1913, but which failed to explode. All the facts point to the would-be bombers being supporters of the Suffragette movement. This article examines the story and significance of the milk-can and mustard tin bombs and the way in which those fighting for women’s suffrage made use of such explosive devices to further their cause. It will explore the similarities and differences between their actions and other terror campaigns that targeted the capital and the ‘establishment’.

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行动，而非言语：伦敦金融城的女权主义者和早期恐怖主义

伦敦金融城仍然为我们提供了警察对 1990 年代爱尔兰共和军大陆轰炸行动的反应的非常明显的实物表现：减速弯、警亭和位于其入口点的闭路电视摄像机共同构成了其保护性的“钢环”。尽管恐怖主义在 St Mary Axe 和 Bishopsgate 爆炸事件发生大约 20 年前就已经宣布到达该市，1973 年在 Old Bailey 外引爆了 IRA 汽车炸弹 - 或者我们相信我们的记忆力。伦敦市警察博物馆中的两件看似无害的文物——一个牛奶罐和一个 Keen's 芥末罐头——有助于消除这种看法的谎言，并为我们提供了有关较早的、经常被忽视的轰炸活动的切实证据。这两种日常家居用品曾经包含“地狱机器”——或炸弹——它们于 1913 年被放置在城市的标志性地点，但没有爆炸。所有事实都表明，潜在的轰炸机是妇女参政权运动的支持者。本文考察了牛奶罐炸弹和芥末罐炸弹的故事和意义，以及那些争取妇女选举权的人如何利用这种爆炸装置来推动他们的事业。它将探讨他们的行动与其他针对首都和“建制派”的恐怖活动之间的异同。本文考察了牛奶罐炸弹和芥末罐炸弹的故事和意义，以及那些争取妇女选举权的人如何利用这种爆炸装置来推动他们的事业。它将探讨他们的行动与其他针对首都和“建制派”的恐怖活动之间的异同。本文考察了牛奶罐炸弹和芥末罐炸弹的故事和意义，以及那些争取妇女选举权的人如何利用这种爆炸装置来推动他们的事业。它将探讨他们的行动与其他针对首都和“机构”的恐怖活动之间的异同。