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The WSPU was formed in the home of Emmeline Pankhurst. This was after a group of women dediced to lobby political parties to take some practical action to gain the right to vote for women.
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The WSPU (The Women's Social and Political Union) was formed in the house of Emmeline Pankhurst.
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The members of the WSPU demand to know if the women's suffrage was part of the goverment's official party.
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Chrsitabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenny were given the task of questioning Sir Edward Grey at a public meeting at the free Trade Hall in Manchester.
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Christablel and Annie got arrested in 1905 when they try to resist police attempts to remove them from the publc meeting.
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Days after their arrest. Christabel and Annie refused to pay theit large fines imposed upon them in court for allergedly 'assulting' and 'spitting' at the arresting police officers. Both women went to prison.
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Emmeline Pankhurst recorded her aim that 'votes for worme' banners would appear at public meettings whenever a prospective member of government was to speak.
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The first suffrage pocession was held when 400 women decided to march to a meeting at Caxton Hall, London.
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The members requested an interview with the Prime Minister. When the women were told that this was not possible, a deputation from the WSPU marched to his residence at No. 10 downing street.
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The resolution, 'that in the opinion of this House it is desirable that sex should cease to be a bar to the exercise of the Parlimentary franchise', was moved and seconded in the House of commoners. However, the member for Shoreditch, Haggerston, the hon. William Randall Cremer rose to speak against it.
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When Sylvia Pankhurst served time in Holloway Prison, she described the female 'crinimals' she observed as 'poor sad-faced women...broken down by proverty, sorrow, and overwork'.
