Gallery: Suffragette

The Quaker couple worked together to fight for women’s suffrage in Ireland. Thomas published a series of pamphlets in April, May and July 1874 aimed a [...]

Kathleen Lynn was a feminist, socialist and nationalist. A medical doctor, she assisted hunger-striking suffragists. She was chief medical officer in [...]

She was already involved in suffrage activities in Ireland when she met Esther Rope, secretary of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage [...]

She was particularly concerned with the needs and problems of female workers. She helped address inequalities and injustices in training and education [...]

A group of men dressed as women mock the political aspirations of the suffrage movement. Suffragists were often condemned as being 'unwomanly' and a t [...]

Countess Constance Georgina Markievicz [née Gore-Booth] (1868-1927), was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, although she refused [...]

Tod was also a philanthropist, suffragist and unionist. By the time of her death on 8 December 1896, she had done much to deserve the title of 'the mo [...]

An early ‘action’ photo of Margaret ‘Meg’ Connery of the Irish Women's Franchise League, taken on the steps of Lord Iveagh's house in St Stephen's Gre [...]