In response, in 1909, imprisoned suffragettes began to refuse food, a strategy known as a ‘hunger strike’. Marion Wallace Dunlop of the WSPU became the first imprisoned suffragette to go on ...

And, in a particularly tender moment, Clarice gifted Lucille a silver medal which revealed her involvement in the suffragette movement. Engraved with the words ‘Hunger Strike’, the medal was ...

One of the tactics used to gain maximum publicity for the cause by suffragettes was the use of hunger strike. This policy was implemented in English prisons from July 1909; as the historian ...

This is the second release of new findings published in the book. Militant suffragettes including Sylvia Pankhurst and Emily Davison routinely went on hunger strike and gained publicity from inside ...

From 1913, surveillance photos of suffragette inmates at Holloway exercising in the yard were taken by the Home Office. Despite obvious emaciation and weakness brought about by her hunger strike ...

Similar medals were handed out by the Emmeline Pankhurst-founded Women’s Social and Political Union to suffragettes who had been imprisoned, particularly those who had been on hunger strike.

One of the tactics used to gain maximum publicity for the cause by suffragettes was the use of hunger strike. This policy was implemented in English prisons from July 1909; as the historian ...

Fife mill worker and trade union activist, Janet McCallum, was jailed for scaling a statue of Richard the Lionheart during a Votes for ...