My great grandmother, Alice Hawkins, was a suffragette a 100 years ago and was first arrested outside the Houses of Parliament in February 1907 campaining for the right to vote.Arrested ...

In October 1909, the Battle of Newcastle took place when Chancellor David Lloyd George visited the city to deliver a speech ...

arrested, and now faces years in prison on dubious charges. Her freedom is further limited by an asset freeze and travel ban. Help Azza today by telling President al-Sisi that he must drop these ...

After her third arrest May was sentenced to eight months in prison. She went on hunger strike and suffered violent force feeding. Suffragettes were outraged at this treatment of a woman with ...

Graffiti was written on statues of suffragette Millicent Fawcett and South African statesman Jan Christian Smuts during the ...

That was exactly what Jessie Stephen was counting on - because she was dropping bottles of acid over the mail as part of a suffragette campaign for women's rights. It was one of many cases of ...

The suffragette leader had been arrested and sent to Holloway Prison after she attempted to deliver a petition to King George V at Buckingham Palace, sparking a wave of fresh militant action by ...