Suffragette facts for kids
Suffragettes were women in the early 20th century who believed they should have the right to vote (suffrage). This movement happened in the United Kingdom and United States.
For many years women were not allowed to vote, and so they fought for their rights. In their protests, they ended up getting arrested. In the UK, women over 30 got the right to vote in 1918. This was lowered to 21 in 1928. Similar struggles went on in all the English-speaking countries.
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Memorial edition of The Suffragette newspaper dedicated to Emily Davison
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7 October 1913
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Emmeline Pankhurst was the most prominent of Britain's suffragettes.
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Poster by 'A Patriot', showing a suffragette prisoner being force-fed, 1910.
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Memories of Winson Green Sep 18th 1909 ; Illustration from Mabel Cappers WSPU prisoners scrapbook
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19 year old Fay Hubbard selling suffragette papers in New York, 1910
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Pendant presented to Louise Eates in 1909
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Vida Goldstein was the first woman in the British Empire to stand for election to a national parliament.
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Constance, Countess Markievicz, was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons.
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UK WSPU Hunger Strike Medal 30 July 1909 including the bar 'Fed by Force 17 September 1909'. The Medal awarded to Mabel Capper records the first instance of forcible feeding of hunger striking Suffragette prisoners in England at Winson Green Prison in Birmingham.
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Portrait badge of Emmeline Pankhurst (c. 1909) sold in large numbers by the WSPU to raise funds
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1910 Suffragette calendar held in the collections of the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry
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Suffragette Banner (c. 1910)
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Votes for Women poster (1909)
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WSPU poster (1914)
