Emmeline Pankhurst, her eldest daughter Christabel and some local socialist women founded, in 1903, the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). Their goal was to campaign for the parliamentary vote ...

The sorrows and passions of the visionary suffragette and socialist who ‘roused’ London We remember Sylvia Pankhurst today as the suffragette and socialist who took militant feminism to London’s East ...

On International Women’s Day, it’s not uncommon to see celebrations of the groundbreaking activism of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, but a new musical gaining popularity in London puts a lesser known ...

Modern-day activists such as Florence Given joined Madame Tussauds London to unveil its new Emmeline Pankhurst waxwork ahead of International Women’s Day. The leading Suffragette has been immortalised ...

Arising out of the scenes towards the close of the Liberal meeting held on Friday night in the Free-Trade Hall, Miss Christabel Pankhurst, of Manchester, and Miss Annie Kenny, the latter an Oldham ...

She was not the most celebrated suffragette at the time. History is as much about the present as the past Newspapers are about the present not the past. It’s rare for a long-dead historical figure to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new statue of Emmeline Pankhurst is being unveiled in Manchester today [Photo: Getty] A new statue of Emmeline Pankhurst will be ...

Feminism and gender equality have been thrust into the limelight in the past year following the rise of the #MeToo and Time's Up movements. The drive for equality, of course, has been ongoing for ...

Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst raised concerns about phone-tapping in the 1930s, decades before MI5 revealed it had kept her under surveillance. At the time, Pankhurst was a prominent human rights ...

A number of modern-day activists, including Florence Given, joined Madame Tussauds to discuss Suffragette and her work. Madame Tussauds London’s artist, Luisa Compobassi, puts the finishing touches to ...