Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new statue of Emmeline Pankhurst is being unveiled in Manchester today [Photo: Getty] A new statue of Emmeline Pankhurst will be ...

I'm Emmeline Pankhurst, and for the first time ever, I, as a woman, have the backing of parliament to vote for who runs the country. This would not have happened without the suffragettes. Until now ...

Emmeline Pankhurst, the mother of British suffrage, died eighty-eight years ago today. The feminist, who helped win women the vote, was born Emmeline Goulden in July 14 1858 in Manchester. Her family ...

On International Women’s Day, it’s not uncommon to see celebrations of the groundbreaking activism of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, but a new musical gaining popularity in London puts a lesser known ...

Among the Hollywood stars attending the film premiere of Suffragette this week in London's Leicester Square were some very special guests, with a powerful link to the characters on screen. Helen ...

AS the coffin was carried through London streets watched by a sombre crowd, observers ­likened it to the funeral of a ­general mourned by his army. Yet this was no decorated military ­officer feted ...

Today's Google doodle celebrates the birthday of Emmeline Pankhurst, British political activist, feminist, and leader of the suffragette movement who played a crucial role in winning the vote for ...

SHE was the Suffragette known for militant tactics and hunger strikes in her quest for women's rights. But who was Emmeline Pankhurst and how did she help revolutionise the lives of women and gain ...

A statue of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst has been unveiled at St Peter's Square in front of thousands of people. It is the first statue of a woman in Manchester since Queen Victoria was unveiled in ...

Modern-day activists such as Florence Given joined Madame Tussauds London to unveil its new Emmeline Pankhurst waxwork ahead of International Women’s Day. The leading Suffragette has been immortalised ...

As a new exhibition about women's suffrage opens, Dr Helen Pankhurst, the great granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline, explains why it made her chuckle and recalls the truly damaging tactics of ...