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Creator Kate Prince and star Beverley Knight on how their new Sylvia Pankhurst musical will resonate in the age of Brexit

Is it millions of marchers with clever signs and slogans, or does effective protest take more than just raised voices and collective outrage?

Why Sylvia Matters How many of you about to read this have heard of Sylvia Pankhurst? Our guess is, not many. She seems to have fallen through the cracks of socialist and suffragette movement literature. Her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst and sister, Christabel Pankhurst are still looked up to as leaders in the suffragette movement. What […]

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

BBC Hulton Picture Library What was Emmeline Pankhurst’s family like? Both of Emmeline Pankhurst’s parents were abolitionists. Her father was on a committee that welcomed American abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher to England, while her mother read her bedtime stories from Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Both also supported equal suffrage. Her parents’ dedication to ending social injustices likely shaped her own commitment to the women’s suffrage movement. Why was Emmeline Pankhurst so influential? ...

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...

Comments International Womens Day, March 8, celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. Here IrishCentral looks at the inspiring lives of some of Irelands fiercest females. In 1976, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote, "Well-behaved women seldom make history…" and this could not be truer for the cast of characters found in Irish history. All these women threw away social norms, lead the life they wanted and achieved what they set out to, even when they w...