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 ...

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 ...

planted bombs and defied all British authority. Following the publication of the first number of the Suffragette, Miss Emmeline Panhurst made a speech openly inciting women to lawbreaking.