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 ...

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 ...

Repeatedly imprisoned for the cause, Sylvia Pankhurst was one of the leading figures in the struggle for women’s suffrage in Britain. What many don’t know is that Pankhurst also played an ...

Many Ulster suffragettes targeted places of male entertainment ... excluded the majority of women from the right to vote across Britain and Ireland. In the same year, as a result of the Parliament ...

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 ...

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 ...

Statue of suffragette Millicent Fawcett defaced as trans rights protesters march on London - The Met Police has launched an ...

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 ...

Suffragettes were a new wave of political activists who believed ... campaigns for equality have not gone to such extreme lengths in the UK since - and the dodo remains safe behind glass. Whether ...

Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Suffragette-defaced Edward VII penny (defaced in early twentieth century), from Great Britain In this History of the World in 100 Objects ...