Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

Almost one hundred years ago, British women led a hard-fought campaign to gain the right to vote—and this is their story.

Britain's women's suffrage campaign began in the nineteenth century, but the twentieth century ushered in a more militant campaign. On June 30, 1908, two schoolteachers broke windows at 10 Downing Street to protest being turned away from Parliament, and when Parliament dissolved without passing the Conciliation Bill, the Women's Social and Political Union (W.S.P.U.) led t...