The Suffragettes

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History hero Emma 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?

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A woman votes for the first time in 1918 Britain

What was the 1918 Representation of the People Act?

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A woman casts her vote, accompanied by her children, in December 1918. Women weren't as

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Alexander Fleming, the Scottish bacteriologist who inadvertently discovered the world's first antibiotic after leaving a petri dish unwashed while he went on holiday. (Bettman via Getty Images)

6 trivial decisions that changed British history

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Ada Nield Chew: England’s forgotten suffragist

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Emmeline Pankhurst

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Emmeline Pankhurst's former Manchester home

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