Emmeline Pankhurst

English suffragist

A suffragette was a member or supporter of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an activist women's group agitating for votes for women, which in the early 20th century broke away from the much larger, peaceful and longer lasting National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), whose supporters were known as suffragists. Both organisations campaigned for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. However, the Women's Social and Political Union, a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, engaged in direct action and civil disobedience a

British women's organization for suffragism

movement to gain women the right to vote

women's suffrage event on 18 November 1910

Suffragette mass demonstration, London 1908

anthem of the women's suffrage movement in the UK

pair of Victorian villas in Manchester, England repurposed as a women-only space and museum

campaign orchestrated by British suffragettes