The first woman to be commemorated with a statue in Parliament Square was the suffragist campaigner Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett...

In my novel, The Suffragette’s Daughter, a murder takes place in 1920 in the real-life location of the Basingstoke Canal as it runs through Crookham. When I wrote this book, I had no idea that a tragic murder had taken place there in 1925…

On 21st May 1914, Emmeline Pankhurst was arrested at the gates of Buckingham Palace. She was trying to lead a delegation to see King George V - but more than 2,000 police officers were sent to stop her.

In the early part of the twentieth century, the establishment used mocking cartoons and posters to undermine the suffragettes. But the suffragettes fought back with their own imagery, and the tables were turned…

The extraordinary life of the Indian Princess who fought for equality. The goddaughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh marched alongside Emmeline Pankhurst, demanding the vote for women...

In 1909, four suffragettes chained themselves to statues in the Palace of Westminster to protest against a law banning disorderly conduct inside the Palace while Parliament was in session...

In The Suffragette’s Daughter, Iris Woodmore is a young journalist who turns sleuth. The novel is set in 1920, and there were no female detectives in the British police force at this time. But all that was about to change…

Considered a royal rebel, Queen Victoria's fourth daughter Princess Louise was an advocate of women’s rights and supported the suffrage movement...

In my novel, The Suffragette’s Daughter, the fictional Mrs Sybil Siddons becomes the third woman to take a seat in the House of Commons when she wins a by-election in 1920. But who were the first women to enter Parliament...

Despite significant reforms in 1918 and 1919, the fight for equal representation was far from over, and this was certainly true when it came to women serving as jurors...