• The 1906 WSPU march on 19 February 1906 was the first march held in London to demand the right to vote for women in the United Kingdom. Organized by Sylvia...
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    The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in...
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  • Franchise League Women's Social and Political Union Women's Party Events 1906 WSPU march Women's Sunday (1908) Black Friday (1910) Honors Pankhurst Centre (home...
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    14 July 2023. "Richard Pankhurst". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 13 March 2024. Manchester Faces and Places Vol 4 Page 33 (1893) Burton, S: "Relatively...
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    women's rights issues. She also leads and speaks at the London march each year on 8 March for International Women's Day. In 2018 Pankhurst convened the...
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    party affiliation. In 1906, Sylvia Pankhurst started to work full-time for WSPU, with Christabel and their mother. She devised the WSPU logo and various leaflets...
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    Political Union (WSPU), a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, which engaged in direct action and civil disobedience. In 1906, a reporter...
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  • 361–370. JSTOR 41988238. See also: Historical metrology Bekele, Shiferaw (28 March 2018). "In memoriam Richard Pankhurst (1927–2017)". Aethiopica. 20. doi:10...
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    Social and Political Union. By February 1906, she was working only for the WSPU and in 1907 was appointed a WSPU organiser. In 1909, she led a group, including...
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    Retrieved 10 March 2018. "Mrs. Sophia Jane Goulden". The Manx Notebook. 9. 1910. "Person Page - 64293". The Peerage. Retrieved 10 March 2018. Bartley...
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    approach, and other press outlets condemned the breaking of windows by WSPU members. In 1906 Daily Mail journalist Charles Hands referred to militant women using...
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    property, relations between the WSPU and NUWSS remained cordial. When eleven suffragettes were jailed in October 1906 after a protest in the House of...
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    governess. She joined the WSPU in November 1906 and became an officer of the organisation and a chief steward during marches. She soon became known in...
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    Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom (category Use dmy dates from March 2021)
    suffrage by 1906. It was at this point that the militant campaign began with the formation of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). The outbreak...
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    the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), was imprisoned and force-fed for which she received the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal. Born as Jane Beddall...
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    to the WSPU. In January 1911, the WSPU's newspaper, Votes for Women, described the song as "at once a hymn and a call to battle". "The March of the Women"...
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    received the Hunger Strike Medal from the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Cheffins was born in Holborn in Middlesex in 1863, the daughter of Mary...
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  • Dilke on 2 March 1906. The bill, which proposed full adult suffrage, and the right of women to become MPs, was strongly opposed by the WSPU, as a distraction...
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    Society. In July 1906, Blathwayt gave three shillings to Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). She first met Annie Kenney at a WSPU meeting in Bath...
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  • campaigner, an early member of the militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a founder member of the Women's Freedom League (WFL) in 1907. She is...
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    union member, jailed for his support of women's suffrage, and subject of a WSPU pamphlet, "Torture In An English Prison", which described his experience...
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    attended Notting Hill High School between 1898 and 1899. She joined the WSPU in 1906 – she was noted to be very eloquent and she wrote some of Christabel...
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    Violet Aitken (category Use British English from March 2020)
    Social and Political Union (WSPU) of the Pankhursts. In November 1911, she held the bridle of a police horse during a WSPU protest, and was arrested and...
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    Union (WSPU) who received a prison sentence during which she went on hunger strike and was force-fed, for which action she received the WSPU's Hunger...
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    and George, born in 1906. In October 1906 Frank Sproson invited Emmeline Pankhurst of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) to speak at an ILP...
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    Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), who on being imprisoned was force-fed, for which she received the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal 'For Valour'.[citation...
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    organisation. In Autumn 1906, Billington-Greig was tasked with drumming up support for branches of WSPU in Scotland. On 25 April 1906, she unveiled a 'Votes...
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    1903. The WSPU's agenda was one thing and that was to achieve equal franchise for women. The WSPU was known for is militant politics in 1906 were labeled...
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    The WSPU were opening a branch in London and in time their headquarters would move there. From 1906 Tuke became the honorary secretary of the WSPU. Emmeline...
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