Images : It is a century since women in England won the vote

Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette leader and founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union, addresses a crowd in Trafalgar Square in 1909



Pankhurst, her sister Mary Jane Clarke, Charlotte Marsh and Jessie Kelly are greeted by crowds after their release from Holloway prison in 1908. Clarke died two years later, a result of being force-fed in prison


The British suffragette Charlotte Despard, a prominent Women's Social and Political Union member, speaking to a crowd in Trafalgar Square, London, in June 1910

Suffragettes during a mass meeting in the Royal Albert Hall, London, in 1913. The venue played host to 25 women’s suffrage meetings, and was called a “Temple of Liberty” by campaigner

A suffragette procession passes through Parliament Square, London, on June 4, 1913 — the same day that Emily Wilding Davison threw herself in front of the king’s horse at the Epsom Derby

A policeman restrains a demonstrator outside Buckingham Palace in May 1914