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Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden; 15 ... 14 June 1928) was a British political activist [1] ... serving for several years on the Salford town council. He was an ...
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928) – a main founder and the leader of the British Suffragette Movement Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960) – campaigner and anti-fascism activist Frances Mary "Fanny" Parker OBE (1875–1924) – New Zealand-born suffragette prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement and repeatedly ...
The 1906 WSPU march on 19 February 1906 was the first march held in London to demand the right to vote for women in the United Kingdom.Organized by Sylvia Pankhurst and Annie Kenney of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), the event saw around 300–400 women march through central London to the House of Commons.
The great-granddaughter of leading suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst has said sentences given to several climate protesters are “heavy-handed and disproportionate” ahead of the Court of Appeal ...
Women's Sunday was a suffragette march and rally held in London on 21 June 1908. Organised by Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) to persuade the Liberal government to support votes for women, it is thought to have been the largest demonstration to be held until then in the country.
WSPU founders Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst. Emmeline Pankhurst was a key figure gaining intense media coverage of the women's suffrage movement. Pankhurst, alongside her two daughters, Christabel and Sylvia, founded and led the Women's Social and Political Union, an organisation that was focused on direct action to win the vote.
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Sylvia Pankhurst: A crusading life, 1882–1960 (Aurum Press, 2003) Holton, Sandra Stanley. "In sorrowful wrath: suffrage militancy and the romantic feminism of Emmeline Pankhurst." in Harold Smith, ed. British feminism in the twentieth century (1990) pp: 7–24. Loades, David, ed. Reader's guide to British history. (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers ...