Awarded to women imprisoned in Holloway for militant suffragette activity, by the Women's Social and Political Union.
Hunger Strike Medal
Awarded by the Women's Social and Political Union to those suffragettes who had gone on hunger strike during their imprisonment.
Katherine Harley
Suffragist who in 1913 organised the Great Pilgrimage, a march along six routes to converge on Hyde Park, London, where a rally in support of women's suffrage was held.
Liber Poenitentialis
Set of 7th-century ecclesiastical laws applied to women – and only women – perfoming acts such as divination, raising storms, or murder by the use of magic.
Manchester Society for Women’s Suffrage
Society whose aim was to obtain the same rights for women to vote for Members of Parliament as those granted to men, formed at a meeting in Manchester in January 1867.
Margaret Sibthorp
Editor of the "pioneering women's periodical" Shafts from 1892 until 1899.
Marion Wallace Dunlop
First suffragette to go on hunger strike, on 5 July 1909.
Married Women’s Property Act 1870
Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed married women to be the legal owners of money they earned and to inherit property.
Mary Bolles
17th-century Yorkshire woman uniquely created a baronetess in her own right.
Mary Taylor
Early advocate for women's rights, born in Gomersal in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, (1817–1893).