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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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  • The Independent Women's Social and Political Union (IWSPU, often known as the Independent WSPU) was a women's suffrage organisation active in the United...
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    Sophia Duleep Singh (category 19th-century Indian women)
    other women's suffrage groups, including the Women's Social and Political Union. Sophia Duleep Singh was born on 8 August 1876 in Belgravia and lived...
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    Suffragette (category History of women in the United Kingdom)
    British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, which engaged in direct action and civil...
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    members of the Women's Social and Political Union, for breaking windows as a form of protest during their campaign for votes for women. The term toffee...
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  • founded the unsuccessful Women's Franchise League, and in October 1903 she founded the better-known Women's Social and Political Union (later dubbed 'suffragettes'...
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    Emily Davison (category British women activists)
    fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for...
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    Christabel Pankhurst (category Women's Social and Political Union)
    suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she directed its militant actions from exile in France...
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    formation of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 led to a suspension of party politics, including the...
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  • Society, founded 1888 Women's Social and Political Union (1903–1917), a major suffrage organization in the United Kingdom Yugoslav Women's Alliance, founded...
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    Adela Pankhurst (category Women's Social and Political Union)
    a British-born suffragette who worked as a political organiser for the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in Scotland. In 1914 she moved to Australia...
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    women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. The MPU had branches across the UK. Men who wished to support The Women's Social and Political Union...
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    Emmeline Pankhurst (category Women's Social and Political Union)
    Manchester's workhouses. In 1903, Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an all-women suffrage advocacy organisation dedicated to "deeds...
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  • Court Judge and MP for Kensington North, introduced a private member's Women's Suffrage Bill. On 15 July 1909, Women's Social and Political Union activists...
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    Black Friday (1910) (category Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom)
    would be dissolved on 28 November. The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) saw the move as a betrayal and organised a protest march to parliament...
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    Pank-a-Squith (category Women's Social and Political Union)
    was a political board game about the suffragette movement created around 1909. It was created for the British Women's Social and Political Union as a way...
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    Lucy Burns (category Women's Social and Political Union)
    Votes for Women, and joined a protest on June 29, 1909, where she was arrested. Burns was later employed by the Women's Social and Political Union as a salaried...
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  • Women's Party was a minor political party in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst when they dissolved the Women's Social...
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    Rising in Dublin, and in Belfast—as a trade union secretary, women's suffragist, and socialist party member—a lifelong social and political activist. In March...
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    sexual equality. It was founded by former members of the Women's Social and Political Union after the Pankhursts decided to rule without democratic support...
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    Marion Wallace Dunlop (category 19th-century Scottish women artists)
    in July 1909 for militancy. She was at the centre of the Women's Social and Political Union and designed some of the most influential processions of the...
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    (1881–1943), suffragette organiser with the Women's Social and Political Union Catherine Christian (1901–1985), novelist and supporter of the Girl Guide movement...
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  • Social media use in politics refers to the use of online social media platforms in political processes and activities. Political processes and activities...
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    instigated by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), and was a part of their wider campaign for women's suffrage. The campaign, led by key WSPU...
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    and the Working Women's Political Association, a local women's suffrage group which later folded into a branch of the Women's Social and Political Union...
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  • Georgiana Solomon (category British women philanthropists)
    suffragettes; as members of the Women's Social and Political Union, they were imprisoned during the campaign for women's suffrage for breaking the windows...
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    Annie Kenney (category Women's Social and Political Union)
    English working-class suffragette and socialist feminist who became a leading figure in the Women's Social and Political Union. She co-founded its first branch...
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    Millicent Fawcett (category International Alliance of Women people)
    herself from the militancy and direct actions of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), which she believed would harm women's chances of winning the...
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    of the women's section of the BUF. Mary Sophia Allen OBE was a former branch leader of the West of England Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)....
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    members of the Women's Social and Political Union during 1913/14. The term derives from a portmanteau of suffragette and jiu-jitsu and was first coined...
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