Sally Lindsay: Named the woman of the 20th century, Emily Pankhurst is a famous face the world over. Born in 1858, in industrial Manchester, she formed and led the suffragettes, a women only ...

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.

Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst raised concerns about phone-tapping in the 1930s, decades before MI5 revealed it had kept her under surveillance. At the time, Pankhurst was a prominent human rights ...