On 3 March 1912, police issued a warning to national museums including the British Museum (Natural History), as the Natural History Museum was then known, that the risk of violent protest by ...
Because the women were so well-dressed the police had not suspected them of being suffragettes. From the depths of her fur coat, Duleep Singh unfurled a banner saying ‘Give Women the Vote’.
“That interesting section of the city once described as Hell’s Kitchen, but henceforth to be known to the police as Suffragette Slope, was the life of the primaries yesterday,” read a newspa ...
The suffragettes supported his campaign as a result ... Hundreds were badly hurt, and the police violence resulted in some deaths. This day became later known as Black Friday.
London, 21 May 1914 - Violent scenes took place today outside the gates of Buckingham Palace as a group of several hundred suffragettes became involved in an altercation with the police.
The great-granddaughter of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst described the sentences given to several climate protesters as ...
shoved in front of police horses, then imprisoned and force-fed by doctors, as she outlined in harrowing detail in her book on the Suffragette movement. This forcible feeding involved “a tube ...
The great-granddaughter of a Suffragette has likened Just Stop Oil ... while the cost to the Metropolitan Police was more than £1.1 million. Just Stop Oil protesters have also attempted to ...
One of the most controversial incidents of the suffrage campaign in Scotland was the appearance in March 1914 of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst at St Andrew’s Halls. The meeting was organised by the WSPU, but ...
Ahead of their appeal, the M25 protesters gain the support of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst's great-granddaughter.