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Women’s Suffrage in the UK

The Suffragettes were part of the 'Votes for Women' campaign that had long fought for the right of women to vote in the UK. Suffrage means the right to vote in parliamentary and general elections.

INTRODUCTION

She was imprisoned nine time. She once spent the night hidden in parliment to claimit was her address on census. She was killed 1913 Epsom Dherby horse race ,, when she stepped out in front of the King's hoese , to highlight thrìe Suffregette cause.

She was born in privaleged family but rebelled against the conventions of her class and campaigned for better treatment of women,particulary in prison.

Emily Wilding Dvison

She was the leader of the suffragettes movement in the UK. Her campaigns used more extreme methods.

Constance Lytton

Emmeline Pankhurst

The most important suffragettes?

Emmeline formed The Women's Social and Political Union, also called the Suffragettes, in 1903.The Daily Mail newspaper coined the term ‘Suffragettes’They published a newspaper called Votes for Women (20,000 copies a week).

How did she organise the Suffragettes?

From 1908, the WSPU adopted the colour scheme of purple, white and green: purple symbolised dignity, white meant purity, and green stood for hope.

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The colours that represent the suffrage.

The Suffragettes also held demonstrations, and they often broke the law by smashing windows or chaining themselves to fences to protest because the government refused to give women the right to vote.

The Suffragettes use to get their voices heard

In 1918 women in the UK gained the vote. At first, the British government gave women aged over 30 the right to vote, although men could vote when they were 21. Women were finally allowed to vote at the same age as men shortly after Emmeline died on 14 June 1928.

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