Women's Social and Political Union

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...

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

Throughout London WSPU activists smashed shop windows with hammers.

She was arrested in 1909 for setting a pillar box on fire. She worked for the Women's Social and Political Union , the Writers' Franchise League (which she helped found), the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society

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...

While researching her suffrage play, Votes for Women!, ER became an active member of the suffrage movement. In July 1906 she began attending meetings of the Women's Social and Political Union , and her...

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...

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.

ES joined the Women's Social and Political Union .

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...

HHR began subscribing to the periodical Votes for Women (the journal of the Women's Social and Political Union ) in 1909 (two years after it was launched), and to The Suffragette in 1912. Her interest...

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...

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 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...