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Emmeline Pankhurst is regarded as one of the most important figures in modern British history.  She knew from a young age that she wanted to improve women’s lives by allowing them to gain education and the right to vote. She was the leader of suffragettes, who was frustrated by the lack of progress of suffragists’ peaceful actions, so she decided to resort to more radical means. As the founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) she didn’t fear militant tactics, including acts of vandalism. In 1912, she smashed the Prime Minister’s windows in Downing Street. Emmeline was regularly arrested and sent to prison. Every time she got arrested she said: “We don’t want to break laws, we want to make new laws.” Her husband was a lawyer who supported his wife. Two of their daughters joined the movement and were known for their persistence.

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One of  Emmeliene Pankhurst’s daughters, Christabel, known for being one of the bravest leaders, had a nickname “the Queen of the Mob”. As a co‑founder of the WSPU, she directed the campaign that included mass rallies and hunger strikes. Christabel advocated the use of militant tactics to win the vote for women in England.  Not only was she an artist who designed the posters and signs but she was also the editor of The Suffragette newspaper. She appeared to be one of the first activists to get arrested and go to prison by shouting demands at the Liberal Party in 1905. Then she joined hunger strikers. Her case gained much media interest.

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Emily was arrested multiple times for obstruction and stone throwing. She was a very dedicated member of the WSPU.  On Derby day June 4, 1913 Emily Davison was knocked down by the King’s horse when she stepped in front of it, which was captured on the cameras. Unfortunately, she was fatally wounded.  First, her intentions were pretty unclear. Some claimed that was suicide, some others that she wanted to bring down the King’s horse to draw the King’s attention to women’s issues. There is one more explanation for her action, which seems most relevant. Emily intended to attach a kind of a scarf with the “Votes for Women” note on the King’s horse.

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Millicent Fawcett concentrated her efforts on improving educational opportunities for women and studied medicine herself. She didn’t much approve of the violent tactics of suffragettes. She believed that women could achieve the right to vote through peaceful means such as petitioning. She was the founder of the first English university colleges for women. With the great support of her husband, she delivered a speech in Parliament on the subject of women suffrage. Later, she devoted more time to social and political work and she focused on chasing and stigmatising men who abused women.

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Meet the woman who introduced Japanese martial arts to suffragettes to help them resist the police. As a professional jiu‑jitsu instructor, Edith Garrund trained the WSPU’s bodyguards in self‑defence, teaching them how to put up a fight using their knees, elbows and… umbrellas. Rarely did she show up in public for fear she might get arrested. She was active in planning and training “jiujitsuffragettes”, as some newspapers called them. Training sessions locations had to change regularly to avoid detection. Edith, who introduced jiu‑jitsu to the suffragette cause, was honoured with a plaque on her  house in London.

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Ethel was a professional musician and composer but she gave up music for two years to support the suffragette movement. She composed “March of the Women”, the suffragettes’ anthem. She is one of the most accomplished British female composers who created a series of operas. From 1911 to 1913 she was deeply involved with the WSPU and at times she was one of the 100 feminists who were arrested for breaking windows in 1912. After this incident she spent two months in prison.