Between June 1913 and June 1914 alone, she was arrested ten times, going on hunger and thirst strike each time in protest at the refusal of the British authorities to treat the suffragettes as ...

These campaigners were labelled ‘suffragettes’ by the press ... that was attended by over 300,000 activists, the largest in British history. Image caption, Under the leadership of Emmeline ...

Bartley stressed that the British suffragette movement was “very different from the American case or the Australian case or the New Zealand case, because although there were ethnic minorities in ...

But despite these late-20th century and 21st century contenders, perhaps the most notorious art vandals of all were the British suffragettes. And now, one of the paintings famously slashed by ...

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 ...

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 ...

She was the most queenly person I think I have ever met. A beautiful voice. This is a collection of oral history interviews about the British suffrage movement. The interviews were conducted by the ...

Workers rights remained a passion for Jessie throughout her life. However she had also been drawn to the suffragette movement at a young age. Her work as a maid gave her the perfect excuse to go to ...

Many suffragettes gave up campaigning to support the war effort. When peace returned, Britain felt like a very different place. Millions of British men fought in the First World War, but a third ...

an entire magazine dedicated to the women’s suffrage movement. On 6 February 1918, the British government passed the Representation of the People Act: a landmark piece of legislation that ...