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Charlotte Church has joined hundreds of peace campaigners in opposing the ban on Palestine Action. The singer has called the ...
The granddaughter of a leading Suffragette spoke about the issues that women in Bolton face. The Suffragettes fought hard for ...
It almost seems poetic that on the 100th anniversary of voting rights for women in the United States a Black woman became the Democratic nominee for Vice President for the first time in our nation’s ...
Next April, Newfoundland, Canada will mark the 100th anniversary of the vote for women. A theatre group in the island’s capital city of St John’s, want to erect a statue of a Bermudian by ...
They were generally opposed to women’s suffrage, but so were the saloon owners. So were people in mining towns who believed that women, once given the vote, would pass temperance laws," Balik said.
Song Suffragettes celebrates 10 years with Wynonna, female country chart-toppers, more The 10th-anniversary event at Belmont University's Fisher Center celebrated Nashville's Song Suffragettes ...
In exclusive archive BBC interviews, two activists look back at their turbulent time fighting for women's rights – from window-smashing and arson to hunger strikes and force feeding.
Suffragettes had shown they were willing to go to great lengths and make huge sacrifices (including the loss of husbands, inheritance, families and jobs) for their cause.