The Suffragettes

Fern Riddell explores some of the darker aspects of the campaign for votes for women, in this episode from our archive. (Image by Getty Images)

Editor’s pick: 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

EEmily Davison is felled by King Edward VII’s horse, Anmer, moments after trying to grab his reins during the running of the Derby, 4 June 1913. The suffragette suffered a fractured skull and internal injuries. She died four days later. (Getty)

Emily Davison: the suffragette martyr

A group of men stand at a booth whose banner reads 'Headquarters National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage,' early 1910s. (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)

Anti-suffrage: the women who didn’t want the vote

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Sylvia Pankhurst is taken into custody

My history hero Emma Barnett chooses Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960)

This illustration from a Women’s Social and Political Union poster condemns the force-feeding of suffragettes in 1910. Many women were subjected to this brutal procedure between 1909 and August 1914. (Museum of London)

Cat and mouse: force feeding the suffragettes

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)

First World War

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

100 women who changed the world results. (Images by Getty Images)

100 Women Who Changed the World: your reactions

Podcast: Were the suffragettes terrorists?

Were the suffragettes terrorists?

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The Pankhursts

A woman votes for the first time in 1918 Britain

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Millicent Fawcett addressing crowds in Hyde Park

The 1913 march for women’s suffrage