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Suffragette movement


15/11/2006

IN THE early years of the 20th Century, the campaign for women's right to vote intensified with the formation of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).

Led by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Sylvia and Christabel, it sparked a new era of militancy in the women's suffrage movement, which until then had been led by Milicent Garrett Fawcett's National Union of Suffrage Societies.

In the years preceding World War One, the struggle became increasingly violent, and the harsh treatment of imprisoned suffragettes - including forced feeding of women on hunger strike - contributed to growing public sympathy for the cause of women's suffrage.

This photograph, believed to date from 1912, shows a suffragette protesting outside Glossop Town Hall as two policemen look on. The poster she is holding gives details of polling arrangements for a forthcoming election.

Courtesy of Derbyshire Local Studies and www.picturethepast.org.uk


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