Wspu

Teresa Billington-Greig - Life
... late 1903 or early 1904, she joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and became one of their travelling speakers ... Later in the same month, Jun 1906, she was sent to organise the WSPU in Scotland and it was here that she married Frederick Lewis Greig in 1907 ... the Pankhursts led to her resignation as a paid WSPU organiser, though she remained in the group as a member until Oct 1907 ...

Rosa May Billinghurst - Politics
... Association before becoming a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1907 ... She took part in the WSPU's march to the Royal Albert Hall in June 1908 and also helped run the group's action in the Haggerston by-election the following month ... founded and was the first secretary of the Greenwich branch of the WSPU and that same year she took part in the 'Black Friday' demonstrations where she was thrown out ...

Sylvia Pankhurst - Suffragism
... Pankhurst started to work full-time with the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) with her sister and her mother ... local campaigning with the East London Federation of the WSPU, rather than leading the national organisation ... Sylvia Pankhurst contributed articles to the WSPU's newspaper, Votes for Women, and in 1911 she published a propagandist history of the WSPU's campaign, The Suffragette The History of the ...

Nellie Hall
... six women who formed the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903 ... Nellie worked for the WSPU in Birmingham from 1911 to 1913 until she was arrested for throwing a brick through the window of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith's car on 21 July ... She was sentenced to three weeks in prison, for which she was awarded a medal by the WSPU but was released after eight days suffering from mumps ...

Women's Social And Political Union - Early Campaigning
... The WSPU changed tactics following the failure of the bill they focused on attacking whichever political party was in government and refused to support any legislation which did not include ... on the phenomenon, Charles Hands, writing in the Daily Mail, for the first time described the WSPU's members as suffragettes ... This split them from the WSPU, which had always accepted the property qualifications which already applied to women's participation in local elections ...