That was exactly what Jessie Stephen was counting on - because she was dropping bottles of acid over the mail as part of a suffragette campaign for women's rights. It was one of many cases of activism ...

(Katy Stech Ferek/WSJ) Many women at the Democratic National Convention have a dress code for the final day of events: white outfits, the unifying color for suffragettes who fought for the right ...

However, some women believed that only direct action could force change. Derisively labelled ‘suffragettes’ by Daily Mail journalist Charles E Hands, they formed a new militant wing of the ...

Ahead of their appeal, the M25 protesters gain the support of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst's great-granddaughter. A new statue honouring Welsh suffragette Lady Rhondda has been unveiled in her ...

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The rebelliousness of the suffragettes was a source of inspiration to Britain’s brash punk and post-punk movements, according to a new piece of work from The University of Manchester. Suffragette ...

On 3 March 1912, police issued a warning to national museums including the British Museum (Natural History), as the Natural History Museum was then known, that the risk of violent protest by ...

On a statue of suffragette Millicent Fawcett, “f** rights” and a heart were painted on the banner and “trans rights are human ...

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

A suffragette who dedicated her life to getting women the vote is to become the first woman honoured with a statue in London's Parliament Square, the UK's political centre. SEE ALSO: J.K. Rowling ...

That was exactly what Jessie Stephen was counting on - because she was dropping bottles of acid over the mail as part of a suffragette campaign for women's rights. It was one of many cases of ...