“I am ashamed to know where you and Adela stand.”
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland in 1918, partially due to her role in the White Feather Campaign. In 1999, Time named her as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating that "she shaped an idea of women for our time" and "shook society into…
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culture · British suffragette (1858–1928) · suffragette · politician · women's rights activist · human rights defender · writer · feminist · also Emmeline Pankhurst, Emmeline Goulden, Pankhurst
Born 15 July 1858 · Died 14 June 1928 · Q211519
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2026· 2 entries
“If the Bill, in spite of our efforts, is killed by the Government, then ... I have to say there is an end to the truce.”
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2025· 1 entry
BBC: Watch: Life of Emmeline Pankhurst
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2023· 1 entry
The Irish News: Emmeline Pankhurst immortalised by Madame Tussauds for International Women’s Day
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2019· 1 entry
Making her the first woman to be honoured with a statue in the city since Queen Victoria more than 100 years ago
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2018· 2 entries
Yahoo Style UK: As a new statue of Emmeline Pankhurst is being unveiled in Manchester today, here's everything you need to know about her
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Irish Sun: Who was Emmeline Pankhurst? The suffragette leader who was born in Manchester and fought for women’s right to vote
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2006· 1 entry
A blue plaque for Pankhurst and her daughter, Christabel was placed by English Heritage at 50 Clarendon Road, Notting Hill, London W11 3AD, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, where they had lived
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2002· 1 entry
Pankhurst was placed at number 27 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons
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1999· 1 entry
Time named her as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating that "she shaped an idea of women for our time" and "shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back"
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1987· 1 entry
One of her homes in Manchester was opened as the Pankhurst Centre, an all-women gathering space and museum
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1959· 1 entry
Paints her mother as generous and selfless to a fault, offering herself completely to the most noble causes
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1928· 2 entries
Died 1928-06-14.
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“You are unreasonable, always have been & I fear always will be.”
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1926· 1 entry
Pankhurst joined the Conservative Party and two years later ran as a candidate for Parliament in Whitechapel and St George's
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1922· 1 entry
Applied for Canadian "permission to land" (a prerequisite to status as a "British Subject with Canadian Domicile") and rented a house in Toronto, where she moved with her four adopted children
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1918· 2 entries
The Representation of the People Act granted votes to all men over the age of 21 and women over the age of 30
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Partially due to her role in the White Feather Campaign
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1916· 1 entry
Together with the former Secretary of State for Serbia, Čedomilj Mijatović, whose nation had been at the centre of fighting at the start of the war
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1914· 2 entries
Mary Richardson slashed the Velasquez painting Rokeby Venus to protest against Pankhurst's imprisonment
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“s constitution relating to decision-making were void and cancelled the annual meetings. She also insisted that a small committee chosen by the members in attendance be allowed to co-ordinate WSPU activities. Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel were chosen (along with Mabel Tuke and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence) as members of the new committee. Frustrated, several members including Billington-Greig and Charlotte Despard quit to form their own organisation, the Women”
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1913· 1 entry
Several prominent individuals left the WSPU, among them Pankhurst's younger daughters, Adela and Sylvia
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1912· 2 entries
Won Hunger Strike Medal (1912).
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WSPU members adopted arson as another tactic to win the vote
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1909· 2 entries
The hunger strike was added to the WSPU's repertoire of resistance
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As Pankhurst planned a speaking tour of the United States, Henry was paralysed after his spinal cord became inflamed
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1907· 2 entries
Sold her home in Manchester and began an itinerant lifestyle, moving from place to place as she spoke and marched for women's suffrage
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A small group of members led by Teresa Billington-Greig called for more involvement from the rank-and-file suffragettes at the union's annual meetings
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1906· 2 entries
“We are at last recognized as a political party; we are now in the swim of politics, and are a political force.”
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Daily Mail journalist Charles Hands referred to militant women using the diminutive term "suffragette" (rather than the standard "suffragist")
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1904· 1 entry
Pankhurst organised an impromptu protest outside, which was broken up by the Police and moved to the gates of Westminster Abbey
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1903· 1 entry
Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an all-women suffrage advocacy organisation dedicated to "deeds, not words"
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1900· 1 entry
Was elected to the Manchester School Board and saw new examples of women suffering unequal treatment and limited opportunities
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1898· 1 entry
Career landmark: registrar (1898).
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1896· 1 entry
When she and two men violated a court order against ILP meetings at Boggart Hole Clough
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1893· 1 entry
The Pankhursts closed the store and returned to Manchester
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1891· 1 entry
And two years later helped to create the Independent Labour Party (ILP)
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1888· 3 entries
Pankhurst's son Frank developed diphtheria
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Britain's first nationwide coalition of groups advocating women's right to vote, the National Society for Women's Suffrage (NSWS), split after a majority of members decided to accept organisations affiliated with politic
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Pankhurst had met and befriended Keir Hardie, a socialist from Scotland
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1885· 1 entry
The Pankhursts moved to Chorlton-on-Medlock, and their daughter Adela was born
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1882· 1 entry
And their son Henry Francis Robert, nicknamed Frank, in 1884
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1881· 1 entry
The Isle of Man became the first place in the British Isles to grant women the right to vote in Manx national elections (the Isle does not return members to the UK Parliament)
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1870· 1 entry
1886, and 1897 had shown promise, each was defeated
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1858· 1 entry
Born 1858-07-15.
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