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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • Society The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (known as "suffragists"; defunct) The Women's Social and Political Union (known as "suffragettes";...
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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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    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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    Teresa Billington-Greig (category Women's Social and Political Union)
    who was one of the founders of the Women's Freedom League in 1907. She had left the Women's Social and Political Union - also known as the WSPU – as she...
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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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  • List of suffragette bombings (category Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom)
    out by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the suffragette bombing and arson campaign...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Parliamentary Bills and holding meetings to explain and promote their aims. In 1903 the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU, the "suffragettes"), who wished to...
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  • Sister Suffragette (category Women's suffrage)
    and composed by the Sherman Brothers. The lyrics mention Emmeline Pankhurst, who with her daughters Christabel and Sylvia founded the Women's Social and...
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    Charlotte Despard (category Women's Social and Political Union)
    in a wide range of political organizations over the course of her life, including among others the Women's Social and Political Union, Humanitarian League...
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  • women's suffrage. In 1903 a number of members of the NUWSS broke away and, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, formed the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)...
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    Flora Murray (category 20th-century Scottish women medical doctors)
    pioneer, and a member of the Women's Social and Political Union suffragettes. From 1914 to the end of her life, she lived with her partner and fellow doctor...
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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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    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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