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The WSPU for formed
The WSPU was formed in the home of Emmeline Pankhurst. This was after a group of women dediced to lobby political parties to take some practical action to gain the right to vote for women. -
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How WSPU was formed
The WSPU (The Women's Social and Political Union) was formed in the house of Emmeline Pankhurst. -
Members would demand to know
The members of the WSPU demand to know if the women's suffrage was part of the goverment's official party. -
Christabel and Annie question Sir Edward Grey
Chrsitabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenny were given the task of questioning Sir Edward Grey at a public meeting at the free Trade Hall in Manchester. -
Christablel and Annie get arrested
Christablel and Annie got arrested in 1905 when they try to resist police attempts to remove them from the publc meeting. -
Refuse to pay fines
Days after their arrest. Christabel and Annie refused to pay theit large fines imposed upon them in court for allergedly 'assulting' and 'spitting' at the arresting police officers. Both women went to prison. -
Votes for women
Emmeline Pankhurst recorded her aim that 'votes for worme' banners would appear at public meettings whenever a prospective member of government was to speak. -
First suffrage pocession
The first suffrage pocession was held when 400 women decided to march to a meeting at Caxton Hall, London. -
WSPU request an interview
The members requested an interview with the Prime Minister. When the women were told that this was not possible, a deputation from the WSPU marched to his residence at No. 10 downing street. -
William Randall Cremer rose to speak
The resolution, 'that in the opinion of this House it is desirable that sex should cease to be a bar to the exercise of the Parlimentary franchise', was moved and seconded in the House of commoners. However, the member for Shoreditch, Haggerston, the hon. William Randall Cremer rose to speak against it. -
Sylvia Pankhurst in Holloway Prison
When Sylvia Pankhurst served time in Holloway Prison, she described the female 'crinimals' she observed as 'poor sad-faced women...broken down by proverty, sorrow, and overwork'.
