A pictorial history of the Suffragette movement.
Circa 1900: Male and female members of the women's suffrage movement on a protest march through London.
In 1903 the Women's Social and Political Union was founded by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia. The members became better known as the Suffragettes.
Getty Images / F. J. Mortimer
1908: Suffragettes picketing Holloway Prison, London, while Emmeline Pankhurst was imprisoned there.
Pankhurst was imprisoned for the first time in February 1908 after she tried to enter the House of Commons to protest, and would go on to be incarcerated six more times.
Getty Images Hulton Archive
1908: Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 - 1928, centre), and her daughter Christabel Harriette (1880 - 1958), third from left), are welcomed by friends and supporters upon their release.
The WPSU started handing out medals to women who were imprisoned trying to win votes.
Getty Images Topical Press Agency
1908: Jennie Baines addresses a mass rally of Suffragettes at Trafalgar Square, London.
Baines would later be sentenced to seven months' hard labour. She was released a few days later in poor health: like many, the Government didn't want her to become a martyr to the cause.
Getty Images Topical Press Agency
