So much so, that many suffragettes were imprisoned ... Shortly after this speech Emmeline and her daughter, Christabel, were arrested alongside Flora Drummond for inciting a rush on the House ...

Miss Sandau had also been arrested on 18 November 1910 during the Black Friday riots, where about 300 suffragettes met a wall of policemen outside Parliament. Heavily outnumbered, the women were ...

Suffragettes Arrested, 1906-1914 collection indicate there were more than 1,300 suffragette arrests and many women were jailed. Hate mail and firebombs: How women won the vote What female MPs wore ...

Many arrests were made and the police were aided ... Armed with eggs filled with red and yellow paint, the suffragettes pelted the police leaving them with the appearance of being of being covered ...

AT the beginning of the 20th century, attitudes towards women in Britain were distinctly prejudiced. The British Medical ...

In the summer of 1909, she and 111 other suffragettes were arrested. In jail, she declared herself a political prisoner, refused nourishment and was force fed twice daily — some fifty-five times.

But the pickets - and the arrests - continued ... have to maneuver carefully on politically hot issues, and women's suffrage was no exception. The movement had been growing for decades.

After her third arrest May was sentenced to eight months in prison. She went on hunger strike and suffered violent force feeding. Suffragettes were outraged at this treatment of a woman with ...

The suffragette leader had been arrested and sent to Holloway Prison after she attempted to deliver a petition to King George V at Buckingham Palace, sparking a wave of fresh militant action by ...