Emmeline Pankhurst
Videos
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland in 1918, partially due to her
Pankhurst, c. 1913
Lydia Becker was an early influence on Pankhurst and may have been enamoured of Pankhurst's father
Richard Pankhurst first caught Goulden's eye when she spied his "beautiful hand" opening the door of a taxi as he arrived at a public meeting in 1878
St Luke's Church, Pendleton
White Feather Campaign
Videos
The White Feather Campaign was a prominent enlistment campaign and shaming ritual in Britain during the First World War, in which women gave white feathers to non-enlisting men, symbolising cowardice
Emmeline Pankhurst
…the British suffragette movement and helped women to win the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland in 1918, partially due to her role in the White Feather Campaign. In 1999, Time named her as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating that "she shaped an idea of women for our time" and "shook…
"The White Feather: A Sketch of English Recruiting" (Arnold Bennett, 1914)
Women of Britain Say 'Go!' poster issued in 1915 by the British Parliamentary Recruiting Committee
WWI recruitment poster referring to the German bombardment of Scarborough, invoking the female casualties in the war in order to coax men into enlisting