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 ...

Inspired in part by the British suffrage movement — led by Emmeline Pankhurst and the Women’s Social and Political Union, whose motto was “Deeds not words” — new leaders including Alice ...

on the contribution of women of Indian descent to British women’s suffrage movement. The Representation of the People Act 1918 finally granted British women over 30 with property the right to ...

They both became immersed in the British suffrage movement in the late 1900s and early 1910s, before returning to the United States to lead the suffrage fight there. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns are ...

With the new movie about the British suffrage movement, Suffragette, scheduled to be released this week, recollections of protest and debate concerning a woman's right to vote in the U.S. are ...

While Suffragette specifically tells the story of the British suffrage movement of the early 20th Century — zooming in on the women who fought bitterly for the right to vote and other ...

Its sender was Marion Phillips, a major figure of the suffrage movement in Britain ... which granted British women the right to vote — women over 30, that is, who met minimum property ...

British suffragists were the first to use ... While the use of cats, colors, and iconic fashion helped stir up energy for the suffrage movement, it took wide-scale societal change to make women ...

the international women’s suffrage movement was similarly nuanced. Conversation in recent years has turned to the diversity of the British suffragette movement, particularly in terms of race and ...

UW Professor Colleen Denney has written a book focusing on Lena Connell, who photographed the leading women of the women’s suffrage movement during the reign of two British rulers. (Jeffrey Bernard ...