Women’s Social and Political Union Exhibition stand, probably at Claxton Hall during the Women’s Parliament, February 1908 (Image courtesy Museum of London) In 2009, a striking collection of some ...
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An “extremely rare” silver hunger strike medal awarded to an activist with Bermuda links will go under the hammer at a UK auction house this month. Stroud Auction Rooms contacted The Royal Gazette ...
A policeman tries to seize a banner from a suffragette during Britain’s Black Friday on Nov. 18, 1910. The Daily Mirror Just days before Black Friday 2023, I learned about the Black Friday of 1910 — ...
It took more than 150 years for American and British suffragists to gain women’s right to vote—decades filled with struggle, sacrifice, and fervent attempts to sway public opinion. And those efforts ...
LSE has officially renamed three of its key campus buildings after central figures in the British suffrage movement. The buildings on Clement’s Inn are now Pankhurst House, Fawcett House and ...
No longer is the contested history of the women’s suffrage movement confined to women’s history classes. It can now be seen on the Broadway stage. Suffs, the Hillary Clinton–backed new musical, ...
A blue plaque could be installed to commemorate a suffragette who spent the last years of her life in Poole. This ...