Women over 30 were finally granted the right to vote in 1918 and ten years later, the Representation of the People Act was amended to allow everyone over the age of 21 to vote. Prime Minister Herbert Asquith declared his support of women's suffrage in 1916. They were soon dubbed 'suffragettes' by the Daily Mail.ДЄnother group, the WomenвЂ™s Freedom League (WFL), was set up a year later byВ Charlotte Despard and Teresa Billington-Grieg, and wereВ somewhere in between the other two groups in regards to their approach.Д«ut the onset of World War One changed the minds of many opposed to suffrage. Anmer, the KingвЂ™s horse, struck Emily with his chest and pitched onto its head while the jockey, Herbert Jones. They included large rallies and hunger strikes. 4 June 1913 was the day of the Epsom Derby and at 15.10, just after the leading horses had rounded Tattenham Corner, Emily Wilding Davison, a militant suffragette, ran out from under the railings and into path of two trailing horses. Frederick and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence funded the office accommodation in the early days. moved to London in 1906, and opened a national headquarters at 4, ClementвЂ™s Inn. The union's motto wasВ 'Deeds not Words' and many of their actions were considered extreme by the population. The вЂSuffragettesвЂ™ adopted the term and used it for their militant newspaper, вЂThe SuffragetteвЂ™, launched in the summer of 1912. TheyВ stayed away from violence.Д«ut Emmeline Pankhurst, who was then a member of the NUWSS, decided to employ more direct and militant tactics, leading her to set up theВ Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1906 with her two daughters,В Sylvia and Christabel. The visitor gained access because she knew and used the pseudonym or alias Richardson had within the militant campaign. 11, recorded in her autobiography Laugh a Defiance (1953) that whilst she was in hiding from the police a female visitor came to see her. They were known as 'suffragists', as theyВ believed in enfranchising women by peaceful means such as protests and petitions. Suffragette Mary Richardson, pictured above as no.

Millicent Garrett Fawcett lead theВ The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), which was set up in 1897. In 1866, a womenвЂ™s suffrage committee was formed in London, which soon sparked other groups being set up in other areas, such as theВ Manchester National Society for WomenвЂ™s Suffrage. The women's suffrage movement began in the mid-1800s as organised campaigns began to take place across the UK afterВ Mary Smith delivered the first women's suffrage petition to parliament. Other members of the WSPU hold newspapers and pamphlets as young boys stand next to them Colorized photo of Ned Parfett, best known as the Titanic paperboy with news of the disaster outside the White Star Line offices at Oceanic House on.

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