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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

On 3 March 1912, police issued a warning to national museums including the British Museum (Natural History), as the Natural History Museum was then known, that the risk of violent protest by ...