Women's Social and Political Union

In 1909, during the height of her involvement with the WSPU , Margaret Haig Mackworth (later MHVR ) began publishing articles in praise of militancy in the Western Mail.

DM published the first of her many articles in the WSPU journal Votes for Women. In this piece she covered a Union rally attended by about 50,000 in Huddersfield.

Militant suffragist EPL launched and co-edited the weekly journal Votes for Women with her husband, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence , in 1907. The journal began as the official publication of the militant suffrage organisation, the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)

Charges against the women were dropped owing to pressure from the University Chancellor, the Liberal writer and statesman Lord Morley (now a Viscount), whose speech they had interrupted and who was said to be appalled...

ES committed herself to the suffragist cause by joining the WSPU , after being sent by the Manchester Guardian to cover the annual conference of the National Union of Women Workers at Tunbridge Wells.

KPF 's last official suffrage campaign event was the Right to Serve March, a sad shadow of the glorious suffragette processions, at which the Women's Social and Political Union demonstrated in favour of extending...

BH was the celebrity chosen to perform the daily opening of the Women's Social and Political Union Exhibition at Prince's Skating Rink in London.

Continuing the pattern begun several months previously, Marsden received high praise from Union leaders while she also continued to come under their scrutiny. She was criticised within the movement for her apparent lack of financial...

ES arrived at Esbjerg in Denmark, in which country she was to lecture on behalf of the WSPU about the suffrage movement in England.

This event motivated her to leave the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and join the Women's Social and Political Union . Her true activism, however, began in 1911, when she began working for the...

Among the social reforms she effected, she founded many institutions which would later become commonplace in society: health clinics for mothers and infants with female doctors, a non-profit restaurant or cafeteria, a nursery school, and...

By this date the prospects for female enfranchisement looked more promising than ever before: Parliament was considering the Conciliation Bill, which would allow property-owning women and wives of electors to vote. While the WSPU found...

This organisation arose after serious political differences between SP and the leadership of the WSPU (mainly her mother and sister) resulted in the latter group formally moving its offices out of the East End. It...

CL wrote later that the scales of ignorance began to be lifted from her eyes about the importance of the vote for women when Annie Kenney told her that as a working-class woman she had...

Later, from 1910 to 1913, she was secretary of the Kensington branch of the WSPU . She was present (as reported by Violet Hunt ) at the suffrage meeting in the Albert Hall in early...