In response, in 1909, imprisoned suffragettes began to refuse food, a strategy known as a ‘hunger strike’. Marion Wallace Dunlop of the WSPU became the first imprisoned suffragette to go on ...

This is the second release of new findings published in the book. Militant suffragettes including Sylvia Pankhurst and Emily Davison routinely went on hunger strike and gained publicity from inside ...

One of the tactics used to gain maximum publicity for the cause by suffragettes was the use of hunger strike. This policy was implemented in English prisons from July 1909; as the historian ...

Sentences varied; Barrett got nine months. She went on hunger strike and after five days was released to a suffragette nursing home to recover. When she returned to Holloway Prison, she started ...

From 1913, surveillance photos of suffragette inmates at Holloway exercising in the yard were taken by the Home Office. Despite obvious emaciation and weakness brought about by her hunger strike ...

Gathered on College Green on Saturday morning, a group of mothers led by Mothers Manifesto will refuse to eat and urge government action through what they call a “powerful” act of protest. Those who ...

One of the tactics used to gain maximum publicity for the cause by suffragettes was the use of hunger strike. This policy was implemented in English prisons from July 1909; as the historian ...