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Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist [1] who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland.
In 1897, the Manchester Women's Suffrage committee had merged with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) but Emmeline Pankhurst, who was a member of the original Manchester committee, and her eldest daughter Christabel had become impatient with the ILP, and on 10 October 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst held a meeting at her home in ...
Women's Sunday was a suffragette march and rally held in London on 21 June 1908. Organised by Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) to persuade the Liberal government to support votes for women, it is thought to have been the largest demonstration to be held until then in the country.
On 13 October 1908, Emmeline Pankhurst together with Christabel Pankhurst and Flora Drummond organised a rush on the House of Commons. 60,000 people gathered in Parliament Square and attempts were made by suffragettes to break through the 5000 strong police cordon.
Until 1912, Votes for Women, edited and financed by Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence, [2] was the official newspaper of the WSPU. The Pethick-Lawrences were expelled from the WSPU in 1912, [3] as they objected to the militant tactics that were beginning to be used by suffragettes, and thereafter they published Votes for Women independently.
A number of modern-day activists, including Florence Given, joined Madame Tussauds to discuss Suffragette and her work. Emmeline Pankhurst immortalised by Madame Tussauds for International Women ...
In a speech, leader Emmeline Pankhurst declared "guerrilla warfare". [23] This letter box in Newport, Wales was one of many that were booby trapped by suffragettes in 1913. The suffragettes invented the letter bomb, a device intended to kill or injure the recipient, [24] and an increasing number began to be
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