The Suffragettes

Lilian Lenton, collage by Rachel Dickens

Lilian Lenton, the 'Elusive Pimpernel': the courageous and daring suffragette who took direct action.

WSPU founder Emmeline Pankhurst (centre) at a 1915 march calling for women to be used in ammunition manufacture (Photo by Kemsley/NCJ Archive/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

From china cups to letter bombs: how suffragettes got out the message of votes for women.

Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst

Your guide to the Pankhursts, the pioneering family who fought for Votes for Women

Illustration shows force-feeding of suffragettes

What was the Cat and Mouse Act? The reason why suffragettes were force-fed

Suffragettes armed with materials to chain themselves to railings

Suffragettes history facts: 10 things you might not know about the Votes for Women campaigners

Suffragette Annie Kenney

8 famous suffragettes and votes for women campaigners

Emily Davison, photographed a few days before she was fatally injured after stepping in front of the king's horse during the Derby

Emily Davison: the suffragette who stepped in front of the king's horse

Women's history podcast episodes

Suffragettes attempt to attack the house by airship. Miss Muriel Matters with megaphone, Hendon airfields, London. 16th February 1909

Muriel MattersThe well-spoken women’s rights hero.

Nancy Astor campaigning

How the battle for female suffrage in Britain was won.

Amelia Earhart, Princess Diana, Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Parks and Marie Curie. (Photo by Getty Images)

20 inspirational quotes from women through history

Suffragettes photographed in a dispute with the police

Jujitsu suffragettes: how women fought for the vote with an ancient martial art.

Were the suffragettes terrorists?.

Fern Riddell.

Fern Riddell"Can we call the suffragettes terrorists? Absolutely".

A suffragette march

The Suffragettes: everything you wanted to know.

Anti-suffrage: the women who didn't want the vote.

Sylvia Pankhurst is taken into custody

History heroEmma Barnett chooses Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960).

The First World War promoted advances in medicine, and in sectors such as aviation, that had not just military but also peacetime benefits, says David Stevenson. Here Captain Francis Derwent Wood treats the face of a patient, creating a mask which matches as closely as possible to the man's faces before he was injured, c1916. (Photo by Horace Nicholls/ IWM via Getty Images)

The First World War: what was it good for?.

Historians Joanne Paul, Olivette Otele and June Purvis dissect the results of our recent poll: 100 women who changed the world.

Video: 100 women who changed the world.

Were the suffragettes terrorists?.

The Pankhursts.

A woman votes for the first time in 1918 Britain

What was the 1918 Representation of the People Act?

Millicent Fawcett addressing crowds in Hyde Park

The 1913 march for women’s suffrage.

The Suffragettes.

The LibraryFemale suffrage: Victory at last!.

6 trivial decisions that changed British history.

Ada Nield Chew: England’s forgotten suffragist.

Did women revolt in Europe?.

Suffragette: ‘a moving and inspiring film that must be seen’

Emmeline Pankhurst

My history hero: Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928).