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Women's suffrage

July 2024

  • Josephine Butler

    How Josephine Butler is remembered across the country

  • Eleanor Rathbone, the independent candidate for East Toxteth, Liverpool.

    ‘100% feminist’: how Eleanor Rathbone invented child benefit – and changed women’s lives for ever

June 2024

  • Josephine Butler, sitting at a table writing

    Josephine Butler: the forgotten feminist who fought the UK police – and their genital inspections

    Half a century before women could vote, Butler took on the patriarchy. Since the murder of Sarah Everard, her campaigning has never seemed more relevant

May 2024

  • Louise Jopling in 1890

    Tate Britain acquires first painting by pioneering English female artist overlooked for a century

    Gallery to display first Louise Jopling work acquired for nation as part of new exhibition exploring women artists in British history

February 2024

  • Catherine Bennett

    An all-male byelection ballot in Rochdale? That’s hardly taking the Suffragette line

    Catherine Bennett
    We can tell just how far women have come by examining the 11 candidates

May 2023

  • An English Heritage blue plaque honouring the suffragette Princess Sophia Duleep Singh

    Blue plaques should be for unsung heroines too

  • The unveiling of Sophia Duleep Singh’s blue plaque at Faraday House at Hampton Court on Friday.

    More women needed on London blue plaques, says English Heritage

February 2023

  • Beverley Knight

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Beverley Knight: ‘Prince encouraged me to be bold’

    The singer and musical star on her role as suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in a hip-hop stage show, her contempt for the home secretary and her ambition to play Aretha Franklin

January 2023

  • Students have their bags checked before they sit for entrance exams at Kabul University

    The Guardian view on Afghanistan’s suffering: the war against women

    Editorial: Families are in desperate straits, the security situation is worsening – but the Taliban’s priority is punishing half the population

October 2022

  • Sylvia Pankhurst, right, pictured with her mother Emmeline and sister Christabel at Waterloo station in London in 1911.

    Let’s sing the praises of Sylvia Pankhurst – and honour her with a statue

    Letter: Philippa Clark on the musical about the socialist campaigner and the campaign for a statue of her

September 2022

  • ‘Mangled abomination’ … Golda Schultz annoyed traditionalists with a new arrangement at the Last Night in 2020.

    Anti-empire, anti-fascist, pro-suffragist: the stunning secret life of Proms staple Jerusalem

    Why is Jerusalem lumped in with the jingoism of Last Night of the Proms? William Blake wrote a heretical, anti-establishment anthem that was later gifted to the suffragists and used to rouse fighters in the Spanish civil war

May 2022

  • Gillian Wearing’s 2018 statue of Fawcett

    Famous rallying speech by feminist leader Millicent Fawcett was never made, says new book

  • United we stand … trade union banners in the People’s History Museum in Manchester.

    From Michael Foot’s ‘donkey jacket’ to Barnard Castle beer … inside the People’s History Museum

March 2021

  • The Half-Timer, 1906–1908, Patti Mayor (1872–1962) Harris Museum & Art Gallery © the copyright holder. Photo credit: Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library

    The Great British Art Tour
    The Great British Art Tour: the child labourer who marched with the suffragettes

    With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring hidden gems from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Preston’s Half-Timer by Patti Mayor
  • Women sewing machinists from the Ford Motor Company plant in Dagenham taking strike action in June 1968.

    How can women get equality? Strike!

    Sally Howard
    The domestic burden – heavier in lockdown – falls mainly on female shoulders, yet Iceland’s housewives showed change is possible
  • Rise Up, Women (detail) by Hazel Reeves

    The Great British Art Tour
    The Great British Art Tour: Manchester celebrates 'Our Emmeline', who changed history

    With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Manchester’s Rise Up, Women

February 2021

  • Swiss women voting for the second federal vote on women’s suffrage, 1971.

    From the Guardian archive
    Swiss women get the vote – archive, 1971

    Fifty years ago, women in Switzerland gained the right to vote in federal elections and stand for parliament, after a national referendum

August 2020

  • The Last Night of the Proms, at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

    Proms changes replace jingoism with hope

    Letters: Readers air their views in the debate over the traditional flag-waving anthems Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory

June 2020

  • 16 Jan 1977 – 'Mrs Pankhurst wasn’t just a pretty face’ – the truth about the suffragettes

    From the Observer archive
    From the archive: the truth about the suffragettes, finally revealed in 1977

    Half a century after women over 21 got the vote, Jill Craigie argued that the movement had been maligned and misunderstood by male historians. By Chris Hall

May 2020

  • Millicent Fawcett portrait by Theodore Blake Wirgman

    Portrait of studious woman revealed to be of Millicent Fawcett

    Painting of suffragist working at her desk was misidentified as Royal Holloway ex-principal
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