THE BBC is marking a 100 years since some women were allowed to vote with a hard-hitting documentary detailing the violent history of the suffrage movement. Here’s everything you need to know about ...

Annie Kenney was a working class suffragette who became one of the leading figures in the WSPU ANNIE Kenney is remembered as one of the most fearless figures in the suffragette movement, risking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emmeline Pankhurst, her eldest daughter Christabel and some local socialist women founded, in 1903, the Women’s Social and ...

“Not all the women in the suffrage movement were fighting for degrees. We hadn’t a chance of getting a degree, we were working women, and each of us had our own private thoughts of what we wanted, ...

It was my dad who first told me about the suffragettes. Aged 12 I was asked at school to prepare a talk on someone important in history. “Why don’t you do Emily Pankhurst?” he suggested. “She’s the ...

A “radical” tea set which was designed for the suffragette movement and used at a fundraising bazaar in Glasgow in the early 1900s has been acquired for the national collection. Did you know with a ...

“Suffragette white” is proving to be a popular fashion choice for women who want to make a statement. Most recently, former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate donned a white jacket in her appearance ...

Emmeline Pankhurst, her eldest daughter Christabel and some local socialist women founded, in 1903, the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). Their goal was to campaign for the parliamentary vote ...