Women's Social and Political Union

She already thought of herself as a Radical and was sorry when Sigi failed owing to the splitting of the progressive vote. Her work for him included holding a hostile crowd with her words while...

Early in the war, particularly up to the end of 1914, members of the mainstream suffrage movementt—with the notable exception of the WSPU —were united in their desire for peace. The immediate reaction of the...

CLtook the plunge, not only of joining the WSPU , but also of volunteering to be one of the next deputation to the Prime Minister (Herbert Henry Asquith ), which would in all...

While the WSPU 's recruitment increased during 1907, its governing members began to disagree over its direction: one party wanted the Union to be run democratically with a constitution, while the other, headed by Emmeline

KPF was present at Black Friday when a Women's Social and Political Union deputation was violently attacked by police.

CP , Emmeline Pankhurst , and Flora Drummond organized a rush on the House of Commons to begin at this time, infuriating members of the NUWSS by their militant WSPU tactics.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...