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The suffrage national movement achieved women's right to vote in the UK in 1918 and 1928. The movement's key figures – Millicent Fawcett, and the Pankhursts – have been heralded in portraiture and statues since, but a great many of women activists were also artists too. From the early twentieth century, art in the form of postcards, banners and cartoons gave a visual element to the campaign.
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Emmeline Pankhurst's Arrest at Buckingham Palace unknown artist
National Portrait Gallery, London
Suffragette Committee Meeting Daily Mirror (active since 1903)