They endured violence and cruelty to further the cause of votes and equality for women. Ahead of the release of the movie Suffragette, we asked writers to reflect on the meanings and modern relevance of the militants’ direct action

27 Badass Ladies Who Secured Your Right to Vote

So many of the social life's aspects have changed for women in the years. Starting with the right for education and ending with gender equality - all of this didn't happen overnight, and many badass women had to sacrifice their personal lives for a greater cause. Women's Equality Day celebrated on August 26th in the US, commemorates the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote. It was certified in 1920, despite being introduced many years earlier in 1878, and since 1972, every president has published a proclamation for Women's Equality Day. Only because of the strong women in history we have reached this point in our society.

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A new book on Manchester's army of radical women is not just to read, its writer Michael Herbert tells Bernadette Hyland. It's a manual for action by the women of today

To coincide with the nationwide release of the film Suffragette, the official watchlist containing details of over 1,300 suffragette arrests has been published online by Ancestry, in association with The National Archives. Digitised from the original record held at The National Archives in Kew, the online collection – England, Suffragettes Arrested, 1906-1914 – lists the names […]

Purple for loyalty, white for purity and green for hope: this was style as propaganda.

Kate Sheppard, English-born activist, who was a leader in the woman suffrage movement in New Zealand. She was instrumental in making New Zealand the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote (1893). Learn more about Sheppard’s life and career.

One hundred years ago today, Tuesday February 6, Parliament passed the Representation of The People Act which gave women the right to vote. ANDY SMART looks at how they got there

Among the women to sit for Broom were Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Wilding Davidson, along with members of the royal family.

As people go to the polls all over the United Kingdom, many will remember the sacrifices of the suffragettes who […]

In these fascinating photos, some of the brave women are pictured posing in their cell in Holloway Prison, London - whilst others are seen gaunt and frail after a hunger strike.

In images of suffragists marching in formation, their bright clothing contrasts sharply with the crowds of men in dark-colored suits who line the sidewalks. This visual contrast--between women and men, bright and dark, order and disorder--conveyed hope and possibility: How might women improve politics if they get the right to vote?

Modern day surveillance photography started in Britain in 1913 with an unassuming prison van parked in the exercise yard of Holloway Prison. We only know the occupant of the van as Mr. Barrett, a…

Sylvia Pankhurst's legacy in Bow, East London: East London Federation of Suffragettes, The Mother's Arms, Toy Factory, Arbers Dreadnought.

In these fascinating photos, some of the brave women are pictured posing in their cell in Holloway Prison, London - whilst others are seen gaunt and frail after a hunger strike.

Feminism - Suffrage, Equality, Activism: These debates and discussions culminated in the first women’s rights convention, held in July 1848 in the small town of Seneca Falls, New York. It was a spur-of-the-moment idea that sprang up during a social gathering of Lucretia Mott, a Quaker preacher and veteran social activist, Martha Wright (Mott’s sister), Mary Ann McClintock, Jane Hunt, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the wife of an abolitionist and the only non-Quaker in the group. The convention was planned with five days’ notice, publicized only by a small unsigned advertisement in a local newspaper. Stanton drew up the “Declaration of Sentiments” that guided the

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The top books and films for children and adults about the 72-year fight for women's suffrage in the United States.