2-378-079 - Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images

The suffragette housemaid, 1908. A suffragette wearing a pinafore advertising a protest on London's Victoria Embankment. The campaign to secure the vote for women in Britain saw women adopting a range of protests, direct action and civil disobedience, for which many were imprisoned. Partial suffrage was achieved in 1918, with all women finally gaining the right to vote ten years later, in 1928.