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Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Woman’s Social Political Union (WSPU) whose leadership group first coined the iconic slogan, “Deeds, Not Words.”
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2020-10-08

For today's in response to the we're sharing images of protest that shaped history, looking at Suffragettes from the Women's Library


Image: Preparation for WSPU rally, 1910, making banners
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2019-09-20

Countdown to 3 days to go! & No.3 of our suffrage timeline: Parliamentary Franchise (Women) Bill is defeated in 1912 by 222 votes to 208, leading to increasingly militant tactics from WSPU – and more hostile anti-suffrage propaganda (image).

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2018-06-07

Lesser-known suffragettes: WSPU members Flora Murray & Louisa Garrett Anderson set up Endell Street Military Hospital in 1915, staffed entirely by suffragettes. On 10 June we're celebrating all the amazing figures who fought so hard for women's suffrage

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2018-05-25

Muriel Wallis was a prominent member of the Women’s Social & Political Union (WSPU) in Nottingham & involved in women's suffrage work, as was her mother Katherine Watson Carey. Both ft. in this photo with father & husband George Henry Wallis, 1st curator of

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2018-02-06