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  2. Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    In 1872 the fight for women's suffrage became a national movement with the formation of the National Society for Women's Suffrage and later the more influential National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). As well as in England, women's suffrage movements in Wales, Scotland and other parts of the United Kingdom gained momentum. The ...

  3. Suffragette - Wikipedia

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    At the commencement of World War I, the suffragette movement in Britain moved away from suffrage activities and focused on the war effort, and as a result, hunger strikes largely stopped. [69] In August 1914, the British Government released all prisoners who had been incarcerated for suffrage activities on an amnesty, [ 70 ] with Pankhurst ...

  4. List of suffragists and suffragettes - Wikipedia

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    This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.

  5. Historiography of the Suffragettes - Wikipedia

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    The Historiography of the Suffragette Campaign deals with the various ways Suffragettes are depicted, analysed and debated within historical accounts of their role in the campaign for women's suffrage in early 20th century Britain. The term “Suffragette” refers specifically to British suffragists who campaigned for the rights of women to ...

  6. Women's Social and Political Union - Wikipedia

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    The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom founded in 1903. [1] Known from 1906 as the suffragettes , its membership and policies were tightly controlled by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia .

  7. Black Friday (1910) - Wikipedia

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    The front page of The Daily Mirror, 19 November 1910, showing a suffragette on the ground.. Black Friday was a suffragette demonstration in London on 18 November 1910, in which 300 women marched to the Houses of Parliament as part of their campaign to secure voting rights for women.

  8. Emmeline Pankhurst - Wikipedia

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    Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist [1] who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland.

  9. Women's suffrage - Wikipedia

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    After selling her home, British activist Emmeline Pankhurst travelled constantly, giving speeches throughout Britain and the United States. One of her most famous speeches, Freedom or death, was delivered in Connecticut in 1913. The suffrage movement was a broad one, made up of women and men with a wide range of views.