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A Long and Illustrious History › The 20th Century
Who was Emmeline Pankhurst?
- The first woman elected to the House of Commons
- A pioneer of women's education in the Victorian era
- The first female Prime Minister of the UK
- A leader of the Suffragette movement who campaigned for women's votes
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Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903 and became the most prominent leader of the militant wing of the suffragette movement. Her activism, including repeated imprisonment and hunger strikes, helped push women's suffrage to the top of the political agenda.