Suffragette Movement

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Politics & Society

The women doctors who fought to serve

When the Great War broke out, female doctors were famously told to “go home and sit still”. But a group of remarkable women refused.

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Arts & Culture

Why Emmeline Pankhurst criticised her daughter

An angry telegram from the leader of the Suffragette movement to an Australian Prime Minister sheds new light on her relationship with her daughter, Adela

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