As the suffragettes sanitized their own history ... and two are held in the UK, in the archive of the Museum of London and in the holdings of the Women’s Library, now conserved by the London ...

The British suffrage movement’s militancy in this period is the subject of the new film Suffragette, which opens in American theaters on Friday and stars Carey Mulligan. Though the film is about ...

The real suffragettes: who were Emmeline Pankhurst, Emily Davison and Edith New? Emmeline Pankhurst: the mother of British suffrage But along with the celebrations, the anniversary has reawoken a ...

By 1911, the UK had witnessed the first act of suffragette arson (orchestrated by Christabel) and two years later Emily Davison died at the Derby as she rushed out to bring down the King's horse. In ...

Emmeline Pankhurst, the British suffragette leader known for her combative — and sometimes violent — activism, took the stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City on the evening of ...

LONDON – The British government says it will consider pardons for suffragettes convicted during the struggle for the women's franchise, as the country marks 100 years since some women won the ...

The UK is a democracy, which means that members ... Members of this group became the first suffragettes - a group of women who fought hard for women's votes. They got their name from the word ...

On Nov. 18, 1910, to be exact, 300 women suffragettes marched to London’s Houses of Parliament to protest British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith’s decision not to sign legislation that ...

Photos uncovered by the National Archives show how the police spied on the suffragettes. These covert images - perhaps the UK's first spy pictures - have gone on display to mark the centenary of the ...

British women did not get the same voting rights as men until 1928. Suffragettes used public protests, civil disobedience and occasionally violence in their campaign for women’s votes.