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5 days ago · Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. At the beginning of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vote, increasing the number of those parties' potential constituencies.
5 days ago · Alice and Neil talk about British suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and her struggle to get women a better life. This week's question Which was the first country to give all women the right...
5 days ago · The Mary Clarke Statue Appeal was set up in late 2018 and plans to erect a bronze statue of Mary close to the Brighton Museum entrance on the Royal Pavilion Estate in the heart of the City. The scheme has Council and all-party political support and has charity status.
1 day ago · The militant suffragette movement was suspended during the war and never resumed. British society credited the new patriotic roles women played as earning them the vote in 1918. However, British historians no longer emphasise the granting of woman suffrage as a reward for women's participation in war work.
4 days ago · This color illustration charts the development of a woman from age 15 to age 50, when she becomes a suffragette.
3 days ago · 24-year-old factory worker Maud (Carey Mulligan) is leading a quiet life when she gets caught up by accident in a suffragette protest — and arrested. Her time in jail with the suffragettes makes her curious, and before long, she's sneaking to secret rallies to hear speakers like the indomitable Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep).
8 hours ago · The first attack occurred in 1914 when suffragette Mary Richardson slashed the canvas to protest the imprisonment of fellow campaigner, Emmeline Pankhurst.
