A RARE suffragette medal, awarded to a women's movement ... It goes under the hammer at a militaria sale at Tennants' auction centre on June 26. The medal was awarded to Catherine Tolson, from ...

It also helped them live on through history. Say ‘suffragette’ and what do you see? Long skirt, high-collared blouse and a tricolour sash reading ‘Votes For Women’. Little did they know ...

Our collections contain primary source material relating to the campaign for women’s suffrage. The majority of this collection forms part of the Women’s Library, whose roots are founded in the ...

100 years ago British women finally won the right to vote.* The incredible work of the suffragettes – ordinary women who stopped at nothing to get their voices heard – paved the way for a century of ...

In fact, much of their labour went unrecognised and unpaid by society. A suffragette wasn’t a choice but a necessity for many women in the United Kingdom. For centuries women’s rights had been ...

Think of Winnifred Banks (Glynis Johns) in Disney’s Mary Poppins, striding through her living room in that iconic purple sash and belting out the lyrics to Sister Suffragette. “Our daughters ...

COURT REPORTER:'Campaigning to change this fact, the Suffragettes. COURT REPORTER:'At the head of the Suffragettes is one Emmeline Pankhurst.' COURT REPORTER:On trial here for the charge of ...

shawls and suffragette sashes to choose from. It was from 1898 to 1908 that 62 Nelson Street was the home to the Pankhurst ...

Sash windows, soft furnishings and suffragette costumes were damaged during Tuesday's break-in, said Ms Heath, who estimated the cost of the damage at about £15,000. She said she was called to ...

A defiant letter by a suffragette about being force-fed during a prison hunger strike has gone on display The "barely decipherable" note was penned by Charlotte Marsh, one of the first prisoners ...