Votes for Women (AW80)

Number 62 Nelson Street, Manchester, was the home of Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters from 1898 to 1907.
It was here that the very first meeting of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) took place.
The suffragettes, as they came to be known, didn’t shrink from physical confrontation and radical action, dedicated as they were to “deeds, not words”.
Mrs Pankhurst was repeatedly arrested and force-fed when staging hunger strikes in prison, as were her daughters. In 1913 the “Cat and Mouse” Act was introduced – hunger strikers being released until recovered only to be re-arrested.
Thanks in large part to the Pankhursts women obtained equal voting rights with men in 1928.