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 ...

Suffrage means the right to vote in political ... The Conservative Party, one of two main parties in Britain, argued for a traditional male dominated or ‘patriarchal’ society, strong power ...

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 ...

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

100 years ago British women finally won the right to vote.* The incredible work of the suffragettes – ordinary women who stopped at nothing to get their voices heard – paved the way for a century of ...

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 ...

But she said she would "take a look", 100 years on from some women getting the vote in the UK. Jeremy Corbyn said a Labour government would apologise to suffragettes and have criminal records ...

In this centenary year a group of women called the suffragettes will be much celebrated ... reforms had given more men the right to vote in Britain, while petitions to enfranchise women were ...

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The original aim of the project was to provide material to supplement documentary sources on the Edwardian women’s suffrage movement in Britain and to make these interviews available to scholars ...

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 ...

Repeatedly imprisoned for the cause, Sylvia Pankhurst was one of the leading figures in the struggle for women’s suffrage in ...