She took charge of ‘rousing’ women in the west of England for four years. Her book Memories of a Militant gives a vivid picture of suffragette life: “I thought nothing of having a hard ...

Years of peaceful protest had convinced an increasing number of MPs to support female suffrage. Other countries including Australia had extended voting rights to women, making Britain look behind ...

Repeatedly imprisoned for the cause, Sylvia Pankhurst was one of the leading figures in the struggle for women’s suffrage in ...

Suffrage means the right to vote in political ... The Conservative Party, one of two main parties in Britain, argued for a traditional male dominated or ‘patriarchal’ society, strong power ...

The incredible work of the suffragettes – ordinary women who stopped at nothing to get their voices heard – paved the way for a century of women’s rights work in the UK. The suffragette spirit is ...

More than a dozen climate protesters are due to seek to challenge the length of their sentences at a hearing on Wednesday.

Militant suffragettes turn to violence LONDON, May 10, 1913 (UP) - England realized today that militant suffragettes were in deadly earnest when they issues a warning a few weeks ago that the real ...

The suffragettes left extensive archives of images, many taken by Christina Broom, the UK’s first woman press photographer. Broom’s images are doubly interesting because the gaze of both ...

Just Stop Oil activists jailed for up to 5 years over their disruptive but non-violent protests in the U.K. say their ...

The great-granddaughter of leading suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst has ... Environmental campaign groups Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace UK have been allowed to intervene in the case of five ...