Women’s Social and Political Union

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Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst and Emmeline Pankhurst

Learn how Constance Lytton campaigned for the women's right to vote despite being from a royal family

Learn how Constance Lytton became Jane Wharton for her struggle for women's right to vote in Britain

Is there a difference between a suffragist and a suffragette?

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Union Jack flag of Great Britain, united kingdom

What’s the Difference Between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?

Women casting their vote in New York City, c. 1920s. At Fifty-sixth and Lexington Avenue, the women voters showed no ignorance or trepidation, but cast their ballots in a businesslike way that bespoke study of suffrage."

Voting in the U.S.A.

Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter, Harriot--from a daguerreotype 1856

Celebrating Elizabeth Cady Stanton at 200

Prominent woman's suffrage advocates parade in an open car supporting the ratification of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote in federal elections. (From left) W.L. Prendergast, W.L. Colt, Doris Stevens, and Alice Paul; c. 1910-15.

Votes for Women

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A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

Diverse elementary school children wearing school uniforms running outside of school. Boys girls

Pro and Con: School Uniforms

A human Inuit skull in a stone chambered cairn in Ilulissat in Greenland. These ancient graves are pre christian and are at least 2000

14 Tough Questions Answered

Santa Claus flying in his sleigh, christmas, reindeer

Was Santa Claus a Real Person?

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10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

Woman tied to a ducking stool, a method of punishment by means of humiliation, beating, or death. (cucking stool)

8 Unusual Punishments Inflicted on Women Throughout History

Title: Senate Square, St. Petersburg, December 14, 1825: repression of the troop mutiny - watercolor by Carl Ivanovitch Kollman, 1825 depicts Decembrist uprising clashing with cavalry, with spectators watching. (new style December 26, 1825) Europe. Saint

8 of the Largest Empires in History

Women’s Social and Political Union: Media

British organization

Learn how Constance Lytton campaigned for the women's right to vote despite being from a royal family

Learn how Constance Lytton campaigned for the women's right to vote despite being from a royal family

The struggle for women's right to vote in British parliamentary elections, part 1.

Video: © UK Parliament Education Service (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Learn how Constance Lytton became Jane Wharton for her struggle for women's right to vote in Britain

Learn how Constance Lytton became Jane Wharton for her struggle for women's right to vote in Britain

The struggle for women's right to vote in British parliamentary elections, part 2.

Video: © UK Parliament Education Service (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Is there a difference between a suffragist and a suffragette?

Is there a difference between a suffragist and a suffragette?

We wouldn't blame you for thinking they were synonyms.

Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst and Emmeline Pankhurst

Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst and Emmeline Pankhurst

Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst (left) and her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst.

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May Sinclair

May Sinclair (left) entering Kensington Women's Social and Political Union shop,...

Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science (TWL.2002.612)

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