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 ...

Eleven suffragettes were arrested and taken to Newcastle Prison, where they went on hunger strike. The prison opened in 1828 ...

In the summer of 1909, she and 111 other suffragettes were arrested. In jail, she declared herself a political prisoner, refused nourishment and was force fed twice daily — some fifty-five times.

Many arrests were made and the police were aided ... Armed with eggs filled with red and yellow paint, the suffragettes pelted the police leaving them with the appearance of being of being covered ...

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 ...

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 ...

Statue of suffragette Millicent Fawcett defaced as trans rights protesters march on London - The Met Police has launched an ...