Emily Davison
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Emily Wilding Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union and a militant fighter for
Emily Davison wearing her Holloway brooch and hunger strike medal, c. 1910–1912
Davison in 1908
A suffragette being force-fed in Holloway prison, c. 1911
Davison in 1912 or 1913
Suffragettes in Great Britain and Ireland orchestrated a bombing and arson campaign between the years 1912 and 1914. The campaign was instigated by the Women's Social and Political Union, and was a pa
Emily Davison
…She soon became known in the organisation for her militant action; her tactics included breaking windows, throwing stones, setting fire to postboxes, planting bombs and, on three occasions, hiding overnight in the Palace of Westminster—including on the night of the 1911 census. Her funeral on 14 June 1913 was…
Two suffragette bombs, which were defused before they could detonate, on display at the City of London Police Museum in 2019
Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst
This letter box in Newport, Wales, was one of many that were booby trapped by suffragettes in 1913.
In April 1913 a bomb was planted in the public street outside the Bank of England.