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
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.
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A suffragette was a member or supporter of the British Women's Social and Political Union, an activist women's group agitating for votes for women, which in the early 20th century broke away from the
Suffragette bombing and arson campaign
…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…
Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst of the WSPU in 1906
De La Rue playing cards back from 1910
Emmeline Pankhurst founded the WSPU in 1903 and became the most prominent of Britain's suffragettes.
Mannequin of Lilian Metge