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Emily Davison wearing her Holloway brooch and hunger strike medal, c. 1910–1912. Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century.
"The 1913 Death of Emily Wilding Davison was a Key Moment in the Ongoing Struggle for Gender Equality in the UK". Democratic Audit; Tanner, Michael (2013). The Suffragette Derby. London: The Robson Press. ISBN 978-1-8495-4518-1. Thorpe, Vanessa (26 May 2013). "Truth Behind the Death of Suffragette Emily Davison is Finally Revealed".
Constance 'Joan' Beauchamp (1 November 1890 – 1964) was a prominent anti-World War I campaigner, suffragette and co-founder of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
One great landmark in the history of Pathe scoops was one of their cameras capturing the extreme sacrifice by the suffragette Emily Davison. In the blink of an eye, Davison runs from the crowds and throws herself under the King's horse. Crowds of people run on to the track to try and help both the fallen rider and Davison.
Billinghurst represented herself in court to plead the case for women's suffrage. [9] Her defence titled "The Guilt Lies on the Shoulders of the Government" was published in The Suffragette. [10] She subsequently went on a hunger strike, and was force-fed along with the other imprisoned suffragettes participating in the strike. She became so ...
The WSPU stopped publishing The Suffragette, and in April 1915 it launched a new journal, Britannia. While the majority of WSPU members supported the war, a small number formed the Suffragettes of the Women's Social Political Union (SWSPU) and the Independent Women's Social and Political Union (IWSPU), led by Charlotte Marsh , and including ...
Betzy Kjelsberg (1866–1950) – co-founder of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (1884), the National Association for Women's Suffrage (1885) Gina Krog (1847–1916) – co-founder of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights; Ragna Nielsen (1845–1924) – chairperson of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights
Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1926) – member of the executive committee of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and co-secretary of the Manchester and Salford Women's Trade Union Council; Gerald Gould (1885–1936) – writer, known as a journalist, reviewer, essayist, and poet; co-founder of United Suffragists