Women's football teams enjoyed great success in the first decades of the twentieth century. But in 1921, the Football Association introduced a ban that stayed in place for 50 years...

Newspaper reports of the force-feeding of suffragettes on hunger strikes caused outrage at the time. Public opinion began to turn in favour of the suffragettes and against the government.

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

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…

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...

Inspiration for The Suffragette's Daughter struck in the summer of 2018, on a guided tour of the Houses of Parliament...