The Body at Carnival Bridge features four women who go against convention to enter professions previously barred to them. As a result, they make deadly enemies...

The first female Members of Parliament challenged polite society’s perception of what an MP should look and sound like...

The 1929 general election became known as the Flapper Election because, for the first time, young women in Britain had the right to vote.

In 1918, women under the age of 30 could stand for Parliament despite not yet having the right to vote in an election...

A reporter coined the term 'suffragette' to mock militant women who demanded the right to vote. But these militant women claimed the word and made it their own...

100 years ago, on 22 September 1921, Margaret Wintringham became the third woman to be elected as a Member of Parliament. She was the first female British-born MP and the first-ever female Liberal MP.

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.

Cryptic ads for abortion pills, claiming to quickly 'correct all irregularities' and 'remove all obstructions' were commonplace in newspapers during the early part of the twentieth century...

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