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Votes for Women in Britain
Protests, hunger strikes, sleep deprivation and prison were endured by suffragettes
"Six men came in, thrust her onto a bed, held her hands and then two doctors came in with a metal instrument to open her teeth, thrust a pipe into her throat and pumped food into her stomach... and so it went on day after day."
Richard Pankhurst talks about the lengths his mother Sylvia Pankhurst went to during the campaign for votes for women, including her attempts at hunger strike as described above. She, along with her mother Emmeline, was one of the leading suffragettes in Britain.
Women in Britain finally got the vote in 1918.
