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Mary Richardson (Sara Delgado & Patricia De la Osa)

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Mary Richardson (Sara Delgado & Patricia De la Osa)

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Mrs Pankhurst (a woman that tried to produced justice for womanhood) was murdered by the Government. The Rokeby Venus (that was painted by Velazquez) was damaged by Mary Richardson in revenge of the murder. Mary Richardson was sentenced to six months in prison.

In a statement to the Women’s Social and Political Union Mary is explained the sentence that was written by Mary Richardson at a letter she left next to the painting: “I have tried to destroy the image of the most beautiful woman in mythological history as a protest against the Government of the destruction of Mrs. Pankhurst, who is the most beautiful character in modern history.

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In early 1913 “Bodyguard” was founded by WSPU (Women Social Political Union). The role of this institution was to protect Emmeline Pankhurst and other suffragettes from assaults and attacks.

It’s origin was done in a meeting where Garrud spoked. Jujitsu was learned to fight and defend herself against the people who attacked the suffragettes.

During Black Friday 300 suffragettes were attacked by the police. They weren’t allowed to enter the House of Commons and a riot was produced near the demonstration.

Bodyguards also organized and helped suffragettes to escape from the police. Several violence actions were produced by the Bodyguards to fight against the police.

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The Suffragettes were accused of being “unladylike” and “unnatural” by the British government, since their form of thinking wasn’t quite developed at that time.

Most of this thought was caused by the fact that the Suffragettes made acts of vandalism and bombings of multiple important buildings in the United Kingdom, which were thought of being unfemenine and masculine acts by the eyes of the British.

It was also thought that it made the average British man more femenine due to aforementioned thought of the Suffragettes committing more “masculine” actions.

Another accusation made towards the members of the group was that they thought they were “the women that failed the goal of marriage and motherhood”, which was obviously not correct.

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Suffragettes were conscious of the need to attract attention, and tactics became increasingly spectacular thanks to the suffragettes.

Many suffragette proclamations were launched over London by Muriel Matters. Two suffragettes had themselves mailed to Downing Street to present a petition to the Prime Minister. Marion Wallace Dunlop sneaked into Parliament and engraved a passage from the Bill of Rights in a corridor, while the display case containing the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London was destroyed by Leonora Cohen. One of these actions had a tragic ending: Emily Wilding Davidson was killed by the King's horse in 1913 when he tried to hang a suffragette ribbon on her during the Epsom Derby.

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In October 1906 many women from the WSPU were to be arrested in the House of Commons.

Muriel Matters made complaints to London. Marion Wallace Dunlop was placed in Parliament and a passage from the Bill of Rights was hung in a corridor, while Leonora Cohen destroyed the glass case containing the joys of the Crown in the Tower of London. One of these actions had a tragic end: Emily Wilding Davidson will die in 1913.
That day there was a lot of violence in the UK by the authorities.

That fact marked a before and after in the history of the United Kingdom, and shamed the society of the time.

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The Cat and Mouse Act was done to try to stop the suffragettes from becoming martyrs.
The prisoners, rather than being fed-force in the prison, weren't to then be released once they became extremely weak to prevent them dying in custody. This effectively allowed the government to claim that it was not responsible for any harm or death.
During the recovery period, any law-breaking by the part of the suffragette would put them straight back in prison. The time spent out of prison recovering was not counted as time making prison sentences. Once recovered, they would be returned to prison to continue their sentence. This meant that suffragettes could be repeatedly released and imprisoned.

Àlex Bermúdez Rodríguez

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Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) 

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Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) 

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The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was founded in 1903 by the political activist Emmeline Pankhhurst with her daughters Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst, in Manchester.

It was a political movement and leading militant organization campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom.

The WSPU became known for civil disobedience and direct action  because they were fighting to obtain women’s suffrage by all means necessary:

The throwing stones, hunger strikes, arson of unoccupied churches and smashing windows were included in the group’s tactics diverged from the NUWSS.

To summarize it is eye opening to see the extreme actions which the women participated in, in order to gain women’s suffrage. The organization shows that any means are needed to be used by a person in order to change social norms.

Clàudia Armora and Hebe Martí.

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Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) 

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Alex Pretel and Charlie Beaumont(Right to vote)

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Alex Pretel and Charlie Beaumont(Right to vote)

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An electoral law reform was considered in 1917 in the UK with the principal objective of finishing the first world war.

In 1884, only rich men could vote, which meant that more than 40% of the British people couldn’t vote.

The right at the suffrage was given to all the men older 21 and to the women older 30 in the rule that it was passed in the February of 1918

10 years later the law that guaranteed the universal suffrage for all the people older 21 years in the UK was passed by the British parliament, this made that more than 15 million women could vote

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These women were always discriminated against because of her ideas, so, a lot of demonstrations were committed by them.

Even so they were ignored by society. Between 1912 and 1914 the suffragettes tried to capt their attention by orchestrating a bombing and arson campaign. This campaign was instigated by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). This movement targeted the government, churches, and infrastructure…

At least 5 people were killed by these terrorist attacks, and at least 24 people were injured. The campaign was halted in August 1914 without accomplishing their goals.

Sometimes the violence must be permitted to get the freedom that we all need.

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Women was were second-class citizens in the Britain. Derisively ‘suffragettes’ by Daily Mail journalist Charles E Hands, they formed a new militant wing of the women's suffrage movement. These women were staged headline-grabbing stunts, chaining themselves to they was railings and attacking property. Women had argued for and won new rights in the 19th Century.

However, without the vote campaigners thought there was little incentive for politicians to improve the lot of women further.

Kristian L and Íker C

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Not all the suffragettes were white women. Black women were also involved in this movement. There were many women living in the UK that were born in Africa or India. So, basically, they were treated worse than white women.

On 1910 ( November 18 ) more than 300 women did a demonstration in front of the Houses of Parliament, because they wanted the right of the vote. A lot of these women were black women, who also complained for the way that the were treated. This day is known as the “Black Friday”.

This day has this name because the Metropolitan Police exercised a lot of violence against these women.
Two suffragettes were killed during this day. Emmeline Pankhurst sister, Mary Clarke, was there during the demonstration, and she saw everything that the police did.

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Hunger strike was used as a way of demonstration for many suffragettes, after they were sentenced to long sentences for minor offences such as protesting, resisting arrest, or smashing a window. However, after the Cat and the Mouse act of 1913 (which theoretically was issued to solve this problem), many women were forced to eat.  An important Lady (Lady Constance Lytton) disguised as a poor women to gather evidence of this fact. The next statement was collected: "Lytton was held down by wardresses as the doctor inserted a four-foot-long tube down her throat. A few seconds after the tube was down, she vomitted all over her hair, her clothes and the wall, yet the task continued until all the liquid had been emptied into her stomach. As the doctor left ‘he gave me a slap on the cheek". After it was found out that she was an important lady in the city, this activity was forbidden to be carried out to women.