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 Britain. What many don’t know is that Pankhurst also played an ...

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 ...

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 ...

It wasn’t until 1918 that they saw their efforts rewarded, at least partly: partial women’s suffrage was secured in the UK in the 1918 Representation of the People Act. This landmark ...

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 ...

Hidden History of York: the story of York's real-life suffragettes AT the beginning of the 20th century, attitudes towards women in Britain were distinctly prejudiced. The British Medical ...

The dismissal of this amendment led to the establishment of formal suffrage societies across England and Ireland. Yet, despite over four decades of campaigning, female suffrage had still not been ...

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 ...