Sarah Chapman
One of the leaders of the matchgirls’ strike of 1888.
Act of Supremacy 1534
Act of Parliament acknowledging King Henry VIII as the supreme leader of the Church of England.
Mary Bolles
17th-century Yorkshire woman uniquely created a baronetess in her own right.
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.
Flapper
Term used to describe a sub-culture of young women in the aftermath of the First World War, intent on pleasure and flouting conventional standards of behaviour.
Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928
Act of the UK Parliament that gave equal voting rights to men and women.
Holloway Brooch
Awarded to women imprisoned in Holloway for militant suffragette activity, by the Women’s Social and Political Union.
Marion Wallace Dunlop
First suffragette to go on hunger strike, on 5 July 1909.
Hunger Strike Medal
Awarded by the Women’s Social and Political Union to those suffragettes who had gone on hunger strike during their imprisonment.
The Vote (newspaper)
Suffragette newspaper published from 1909 until 1933.