Derisively labelled ‘suffragettes’ by Daily Mail journalist Charles E Hands, they formed a new militant wing of the women's suffrage movement. These women staged headline-grabbing stunts ...

The great-granddaughter of leading suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst has said sentences given to several climate protesters are “heavy-handed and disproportionate” ahead of the Court of Appeal ...

In 1910, a branch of the WSPU was founded in York and its members became known as suffragettes. It was the Daily Mail that coined the term suffragette in January 1906 as a term of disrespect ...