National heroines the Suffragettes, particularly the elder Pankhurt's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), were responsible for approximately 1000 bombing and arson attacks just FYI.
Thinking back to when the judge who was justifying PA's continued proscription stated that they aren't like the suffragettes. And that's correct, but not in the way she thought lmao.
October 2, 2026 at 12:51 PM
National heroines the Suffragettes, particularly the elder Pankhurt's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), were responsible for approximately 1000 bombing and arson attacks just FYI.
private stairs leading from a postern gate. Later it was used as a store for the royal wardrobe. From 1870 to 1967 the Crown Jewels were displayed here.On 1st February 1913, Leonora Cohen, a member of the Women's Social & Political Union (WSPU), born Hunslet, Leeds concealed an iron bar under her
October 1, 2026 at 2:35 PM
private stairs leading from a postern gate. Later it was used as a store for the royal wardrobe. From 1870 to 1967 the Crown Jewels were displayed here.On 1st February 1913, Leonora Cohen, a member of the Women's Social & Political Union (WSPU), born Hunslet, Leeds concealed an iron bar under her
The comparison highlights a massive difference in scale: the "No Farmers, No Food" movement represents a global reliance on agriculture affecting all 8 billion people on Earth, whereas the British Suffragette movement (specifically the WSPU) had a core membership estimated in the tens of thousands.
October 1, 2026 at 7:32 AM
The comparison highlights a massive difference in scale: the "No Farmers, No Food" movement represents a global reliance on agriculture affecting all 8 billion people on Earth, whereas the British Suffragette movement (specifically the WSPU) had a core membership estimated in the tens of thousands.
signed an open letter to Emmeline Pankhurst, explaining their disquiet with the way Women’s Social and Political Union was run.
Emmeline and her daughter, Christabel, had suspended the WSPU constitution and took direct control of the WSPU.
Emmeline and her daughter, Christabel, had suspended the WSPU constitution and took direct control of the WSPU.
September 28, 2026 at 3:04 PM
signed an open letter to Emmeline Pankhurst, explaining their disquiet with the way Women’s Social and Political Union was run.
Emmeline and her daughter, Christabel, had suspended the WSPU constitution and took direct control of the WSPU.
Emmeline and her daughter, Christabel, had suspended the WSPU constitution and took direct control of the WSPU.
She designed the WSPU logo, leaflets and many banners and posters. She painted portraits of working women, and wrote for the suffragette press. She was arrested for protests loads of times, and went on repeated hunger strike.
September 27, 2026 at 9:17 PM
She designed the WSPU logo, leaflets and many banners and posters. She painted portraits of working women, and wrote for the suffragette press. She was arrested for protests loads of times, and went on repeated hunger strike.
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Image Credit: Ethel Smyth at a WSPU Meeting in 1912, via LSE Women’s Library Flickr.
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September 26, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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Image Credit: Ethel Smyth at a WSPU Meeting in 1912, via LSE Women’s Library Flickr.
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22 September 1880. Christabel Pankhurst, a leading figure in the Suffragette movement, was born in Manchester. She was the co-founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and helped direct its militant actions from 1912 to 1913 while in exile in France.
September 22, 2026 at 8:10 AM
22 September 1880. Christabel Pankhurst, a leading figure in the Suffragette movement, was born in Manchester. She was the co-founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and helped direct its militant actions from 1912 to 1913 while in exile in France.
22 September 1880 Christabel Pankhurst was born in Old Trafford. She co-founded the Women’s Social & Political Union to campaign for the vote for women, with motto ‘deeds not words’. Actions of the WSPU became more violent, with Pankhurst directing bombing and arson campaigns.
September 22, 2026 at 7:47 AM
22 September 1880 Christabel Pankhurst was born in Old Trafford. She co-founded the Women’s Social & Political Union to campaign for the vote for women, with motto ‘deeds not words’. Actions of the WSPU became more violent, with Pankhurst directing bombing and arson campaigns.
WSPU banner at Monument
1913
1913
September 6, 2026 at 10:22 AM
WSPU banner at Monument
1913
1913
In several different ways - Ireland and Unionist subversion of the British state most of all, but also there was a lot of - often successful - industrial militancy (the coal miners’ strike of 1912 is quite an event). And the WSPU was on a radicalisation spiral. It’s quite like 1972-76.
September 6, 2026 at 8:09 AM
In several different ways - Ireland and Unionist subversion of the British state most of all, but also there was a lot of - often successful - industrial militancy (the coal miners’ strike of 1912 is quite an event). And the WSPU was on a radicalisation spiral. It’s quite like 1972-76.
The fires were extinguished pretty easily, and no-one was ever caught or prosecuted. It’s widely believed that the WSPU arson campaign was led by this woman: Christabel Pankhurst 🔥🔥🔥🔥…
September 5, 2026 at 6:38 AM
The fires were extinguished pretty easily, and no-one was ever caught or prosecuted. It’s widely believed that the WSPU arson campaign was led by this woman: Christabel Pankhurst 🔥🔥🔥🔥…
Who would carry out such a heinous crime?
Well, the next morning, Votes for Women and other suffrage pamphlets were found attached to trees in the grounds with ladies’ hatpins, alongside discarded petrol cans 🔥🔥🔥…
Well, the next morning, Votes for Women and other suffrage pamphlets were found attached to trees in the grounds with ladies’ hatpins, alongside discarded petrol cans 🔥🔥🔥…
September 5, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Who would carry out such a heinous crime?
Well, the next morning, Votes for Women and other suffrage pamphlets were found attached to trees in the grounds with ladies’ hatpins, alongside discarded petrol cans 🔥🔥🔥…
Well, the next morning, Votes for Women and other suffrage pamphlets were found attached to trees in the grounds with ladies’ hatpins, alongside discarded petrol cans 🔥🔥🔥…
The Pankhurst sisters - suffragettes who changed Britain - pvsmagazine.com/sword/the-pa... - Discover how the Pankhurst sisters and the WSPU fought for womens suffrage in Britain, reshaping politics and inspiring global equality. #feminism #Freedom #Manchester #Pankhurst #Suffragette #votesforwomen
Pankhurst Sisters – Emmeline, Christabel And Sylvia
Emmeline Pankhurst founded the WSPU, but her daughters Christabel and Sylvia took very different paths. The Pankhurst family story and their fight for votes
pvsmagazine.com
September 3, 2026 at 9:48 AM
The Pankhurst sisters - suffragettes who changed Britain - pvsmagazine.com/sword/the-pa... - Discover how the Pankhurst sisters and the WSPU fought for womens suffrage in Britain, reshaping politics and inspiring global equality. #feminism #Freedom #Manchester #Pankhurst #Suffragette #votesforwomen
A thread of numismatic objects that is in no way related to any numismatic news from today.
Crown with Suffragette countermark minted under Victoria I, 1892/ca. 1905, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Crown with Suffragette countermark minted under Victoria I, 1892/ca. 1905, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
September 3, 2026 at 1:59 AM
A thread of numismatic objects that is in no way related to any numismatic news from today.
Crown with Suffragette countermark minted under Victoria I, 1892/ca. 1905, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Crown with Suffragette countermark minted under Victoria I, 1892/ca. 1905, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
4/7 Keynes went on to say: ''A party which would discuss these things openly & wisely at its meetings would discover a new and living interest in the electorate—because politics would be dealing once more with matters about which every one wants to know & which deeply affect every one's own life'.
August 20, 2026 at 8:28 PM
4/7 Keynes went on to say: ''A party which would discuss these things openly & wisely at its meetings would discover a new and living interest in the electorate—because politics would be dealing once more with matters about which every one wants to know & which deeply affect every one's own life'.
1857 Cawnpore
1881 Alexander II assassination
1882 Phoenix Park murders
1886 Haymarket
1892 Frick shooting
1896 Ottoman Bank raid
1903 Salonika bombings
1912 WSPU arson
1919 Spartacist rising
1920 Wall St bombing
1925 Sofia cathedral
1934 Asturias
1881 Alexander II assassination
1882 Phoenix Park murders
1886 Haymarket
1892 Frick shooting
1896 Ottoman Bank raid
1903 Salonika bombings
1912 WSPU arson
1919 Spartacist rising
1920 Wall St bombing
1925 Sofia cathedral
1934 Asturias
August 13, 2026 at 2:28 PM
1857 Cawnpore
1881 Alexander II assassination
1882 Phoenix Park murders
1886 Haymarket
1892 Frick shooting
1896 Ottoman Bank raid
1903 Salonika bombings
1912 WSPU arson
1919 Spartacist rising
1920 Wall St bombing
1925 Sofia cathedral
1934 Asturias
1881 Alexander II assassination
1882 Phoenix Park murders
1886 Haymarket
1892 Frick shooting
1896 Ottoman Bank raid
1903 Salonika bombings
1912 WSPU arson
1919 Spartacist rising
1920 Wall St bombing
1925 Sofia cathedral
1934 Asturias
"Durch Hämmer in weiblicher Hand gingen damals die Schaufenster zahlloser Geschäfte zu Bruch. Die WSPU hatte zur "window smashing campaign" aufgerufen, ganze Straßenzüge wurden zum Glassplittermeer."
August 6, 2026 at 8:49 PM
"Durch Hämmer in weiblicher Hand gingen damals die Schaufenster zahlloser Geschäfte zu Bruch. Die WSPU hatte zur "window smashing campaign" aufgerufen, ganze Straßenzüge wurden zum Glassplittermeer."
"1903 gründete Emmeline Pankhurst dann die Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). "Taten, nicht Worte!" war nun das Motto."
August 6, 2026 at 8:47 PM
"1903 gründete Emmeline Pankhurst dann die Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). "Taten, nicht Worte!" war nun das Motto."
Die WSPU: Der militante Flügel der Suffragetten-Bewegung:
"Sie ketteten sich an Zäunen und Gebäuden fest, organisierten Blockaden & unangemeldete Demonstrationen. Sie provozierten, um verhaftet zu werden, und schlachteten das dann öffentlichkeitswirksam aus."
"Sie ketteten sich an Zäunen und Gebäuden fest, organisierten Blockaden & unangemeldete Demonstrationen. Sie provozierten, um verhaftet zu werden, und schlachteten das dann öffentlichkeitswirksam aus."
August 6, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Die WSPU: Der militante Flügel der Suffragetten-Bewegung:
"Sie ketteten sich an Zäunen und Gebäuden fest, organisierten Blockaden & unangemeldete Demonstrationen. Sie provozierten, um verhaftet zu werden, und schlachteten das dann öffentlichkeitswirksam aus."
"Sie ketteten sich an Zäunen und Gebäuden fest, organisierten Blockaden & unangemeldete Demonstrationen. Sie provozierten, um verhaftet zu werden, und schlachteten das dann öffentlichkeitswirksam aus."
"1898 gründete ... [Emmeline Pankhurst] ... in Manchester die Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Anders als andere Suffragetten setzte Pankhurst .... auf völlig neue Methoden: Sie entwickelte Protestformen, die ... sie zur Symbolfigur eines militanten Frauen-Widerstandes machen sollten."
August 6, 2026 at 8:32 PM
"1898 gründete ... [Emmeline Pankhurst] ... in Manchester die Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Anders als andere Suffragetten setzte Pankhurst .... auf völlig neue Methoden: Sie entwickelte Protestformen, die ... sie zur Symbolfigur eines militanten Frauen-Widerstandes machen sollten."
Como xeito de promover a súa causa, as sufraxistas crearon e promoveron varios xogos de mesa, unha tarefa na que destacou a WSPU de Emmeline Pankhurst.
Fai un tempo fixen unha escolma guiado polo libro "Ladronas victorianas"
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Fai un tempo fixen unha escolma guiado polo libro "Ladronas victorianas"
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August 6, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Como xeito de promover a súa causa, as sufraxistas crearon e promoveron varios xogos de mesa, unha tarefa na que destacou a WSPU de Emmeline Pankhurst.
Fai un tempo fixen unha escolma guiado polo libro "Ladronas victorianas"
iusnaufragii.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/j...
Fai un tempo fixen unha escolma guiado polo libro "Ladronas victorianas"
iusnaufragii.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/j...
Scottish activist Flora Drummond was a fearless operational leader of the British militant suffragette movement.
Nicknamed "The General," she famously marshaled massive #WomensRights parades thru London & Edinburgh on horseback & wearing a military-style uniform. She was born #OTD in 1878.
Nicknamed "The General," she famously marshaled massive #WomensRights parades thru London & Edinburgh on horseback & wearing a military-style uniform. She was born #OTD in 1878.
August 4, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Scottish activist Flora Drummond was a fearless operational leader of the British militant suffragette movement.
Nicknamed "The General," she famously marshaled massive #WomensRights parades thru London & Edinburgh on horseback & wearing a military-style uniform. She was born #OTD in 1878.
Nicknamed "The General," she famously marshaled massive #WomensRights parades thru London & Edinburgh on horseback & wearing a military-style uniform. She was born #OTD in 1878.