Violent Campaigns of the Suffragettes

Violent tactics of the suffragettes

• disruption of meetings
  • suffragettes would sit in at Liberal meetings and disrupt them, standing up or shouting. This sometimes led to arrests and eventually all women were banned from Liberal meetings.

• chained themselves to railings

• shouting suffragette slogans at Westminster

• attacking - sometimes burning - the houses of leading politicians
  • in 1913…