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 ...

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 ...

And, in a particularly tender moment, Clarice gifted Lucille a silver medal which revealed her involvement in the suffragette movement. Engraved with the words ‘Hunger Strike’, the medal was ...

Gathered on College Green on Saturday morning, a group of mothers led by Mothers Manifesto will refuse to eat and urge ...

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 ...