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As the campaign for womens suffrage grew more extreme, so did the violence directed against it. Here, Emelyne Godfrey reveals how suffragettes fought back by mastering an ancient Japanese martial art

Email It took more than 150 years for American and British suffragists to gain women’s right to vote—decades filled with struggle, sacrifice, and fervent attempts to sway public opinion. And those efforts at persuasion didn’t always involve speeches or personal appeals. Suffragists used visual symbolism to help the public envision a world in which women could participate in the political process. Some emblems were savvy ways to help suffragists stick out in a crowd. Others signified the v...

AS INTERNATIONAL Working Women’s Day approaches, it feels timely to reflect upon the myriad ways in which the dissenting histories of women have been censored and obscured, with their commitment and profound contribution to radical social change omitted from our popular narratives of global struggle and erased over time. Even in the most publicly accessible story of women’s activism, that of the women’s suffrage movement, so many voices have been lost or elided, edited out in order to cre...

Simon Webb counters popular view in his book The Suffragette Bombers: Britains Forgotten Terrorists He claims history has been kind to Emmeline Pankhurst and the other leaders of the movement He argues that they carried out a widespread and sustained bombing campaign across the country Activists also carried out arson attacks, including on tea house at Kew Gardens in Richmond, West London