The Suffragettes

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

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

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

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

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Nancy Astor campaigning

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)

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

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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)

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

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Fern Riddell.

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

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A suffragette march

The Suffragettes: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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