The Suffragettes

Graphic photo collage of early 20th-century women engaged in sports—a mountaineer holding a rope, two women practicing jujitsu or grappling, and a golfer swinging a club—set against diagonal pink and blue stripes

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"No votes, no golf!": how the suffragettes made sport a political battlefield. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lilian Lenton, collage by Rachel Dickens

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Lilian Lenton, the 'Elusive Pimpernel': the courageous and daring suffragette who took direct action. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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)

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From china cups to letter bombs: how suffragettes got out the message of votes for women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst

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

Illustration shows force-feeding of suffragettes

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

Suffragettes armed with materials to chain themselves to railings

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

Suffragette Annie Kenney

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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

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

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

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Muriel MattersThe well-spoken women’s rights hero. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nancy Astor campaigning

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How the battle for female suffrage in Britain was won. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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20 inspirational quotes from women through history

Suffragettes photographed in a dispute with the police

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Jujitsu suffragettes: how women fought for the vote with an ancient martial art. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Were the suffragettes terrorists?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fern Riddell.

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Fern Riddell"Can we call the suffragettes terrorists? Absolutely". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A suffragette march

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Anti-suffrage: the women who didn't want the vote. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sylvia Pankhurst is taken into custody

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History heroEmma Barnett chooses Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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)

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

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The Pankhursts. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woman votes for the first time in 1918 Britain

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What was the 1918 Representation of the People Act?

Millicent Fawcett addressing crowds in Hyde Park

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The 1913 march for women’s suffrage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The LibraryFemale suffrage: Victory at last!. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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6 trivial decisions that changed British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ada Nield Chew: England’s forgotten suffragist. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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