14 July is Emmeline Pankhurst Day ... After Christabel’s imprisonment, Pankhurst took the WSPU in an increasingly combative direction. The group became famous for smashing windows, cutting ...

I'm Emmeline Pankhurst, and for the first time ever, I, as a woman, have the backing of parliament to vote for who runs the country. This would not have happened without the suffragettes.

Emmeline Pankhurst. Rosa Parks. Marie Curie. Frida Kahlo. Jane Austen. Mary Seacole. All famous women who have changed the course of history. But how about these less-familiar names? Gertrude Erdele.

Ninety years after her death, Emmeline Pankhurst is still the most famous member of the British women’s suffrage movement. We know what she looked like: that high-cheekboned, imperious face ...