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)

EGB and Esther Roper again offered some support to Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney after their landmark protest at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on 13 October 1905. But in 1906, they and other...

After further government hesitation on the matter of women's suffrage, EP heightened the militancy of WSPU campaigns by explicitly condoning attacks on property.

Some of the WSPU 's meetings and parties were held at Hunt's home, South Lodge in Kensington. In her memoir she gleefully recalls introducing Christabel Pankhurst to Mrs Humphry Ward , author and vocal...

CD became joint honorary secretary of the WSPU , which had recently moved to London from Manchester. (She probably resigned at this time from the Social Democratic Federation ).

In an interview in 1896, SG made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand...

On the eve of her arrest for conspiring to commit damage at the WSPU 's first violent protest (1 March) EP sent out cloak-and-dagger notices planning another militant action.

NJ began her political life as a Tory who thought Socialism deeply shocking, like all or most of the older generation of her very mixed family. She went out canvassing at elections, urging people to...

When she returned to the north after living in Colchester, DM became more actively involved with the formal suffrage movement, particularly the WSPU . Along with Rona Robinson , she was attracted to the ideals...

At the meeting at her mother's home where the Women's Social and Political Union was born, CP was the one who gave the Union the name by which it is known to history.

HSW subscribed to the Women's Social and Political Union 's Votes for Women.

CH was an active member of several suffrage organizations, always aligning herself with the non-militant suffragists. She first belonged to the Women's Social and Political Union , but in 1907 she left to join the...

Throughout London WSPU activists smashed shop windows with hammers.