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Suffragette teddy bears: WWI & women’s rights
What’s your favourite object connected to women’s history? One of ours is a Bow Bear

Suffragettes’ secret prison diaries: History on toilet paper
Resourceful and heroic – how incarcerated Suffragettes used toilet paper

Are the Suffragettes still relevant today?
Hammers, banners and prison medals: How Suffragettes continue to inspire and provoke

Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst & her ‘militant’ strategy
Interview: Often maligned by historians, feminist and Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst’s story needs much exploration

From prison to parliament: Suffragettes & Holloway
Delve into the history of Holloway prison, and the stories of the Suffragettes imprisoned there

The forgotten Suffragettes & tales of militancy
These four forgotten champions who fought bravely for female suffrage

March of the women: Photographing the Suffragettes
The fight for women’s right to vote as captured by pioneering photographer Christina Broom

A fashion for women's suffrage, via Christina Broom's lens
What do the clothes worn by Christina Broom's protagonists say about them and the period?