Tag: Suffrage Records and researchReform: Violence and the struggle for suffrageThursday 23 January 2020The campaign for women’s suffrage is often characterised by its militant factions and leaders...Records and researchFrom Peterloo to the Pankhursts: A new way of exploring 19th-century radical historyMonday 5 August 2019On 16th August 1819 more than 60,000 men, women and children arrived at St...Records and research‘Plucky Pioneers’: the 1918 General ElectionFriday 21 December 2018On December 6 1918 the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) publication ‘The Common...Records and researchWomen’s place in ParliamentWednesday 21 November 2018Women’s participation in politics has been a hot topic this year: organisations across the...Records and researchThe 1913 Suffrage Pilgrimage: peaceful protest and local disorderThursday 15 November 2018On 26 July 1913 – in a year more often associated with Suffragette militancy and the...Records and researchThe Peterloo MassacreMonday 29 October 2018This Friday sees the release of director Mike Leigh’s film ‘Peterloo’, which dramatises the events of...Archives and archivistsEmmeline Pankhurst memorialWednesday 24 October 2018One of the highlights of the suffrage centenary so far has been the unveiling...Records and researchMyth-busting the women’s suffrage movementThursday 11 October 2018Visit our free exhibition, open until Friday 26 October: Suffragettes vs the State There...Records and researchSuffragette outrage and prayers at St Paul’sTuesday 21 August 2018Westminster Abbey. St Martin in the Fields. St George’s Hanover Square. St John the...Records and research100neHundred: dancing to remember the fight for the voteThursday 19 July 2018Emily Wilding Davison is one of the most remembered figures of the women’s suffrage...Records and researchAlice Hawkins, suffragette and working womanMonday 2 July 2018Today marks 90 years since the passing of the 1928 Representation of the People...Records and research‘Raided!!’ London headquarters of the Women’s Social and Political UnionWednesday 13 June 2018The headquarters of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the militant strand of... 1 2 3 »