# Canonical recap data for Women's Suffrage Movement UK (1903)
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slug: wspu-suffrage
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1903/wspu-suffrage"
title: Women's Suffrage Movement UK
subtitle: Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union, launching militant suffragism that forced democratic reform across the Anglophone world.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1903-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1903
decade: 1900
country:
name: United Kingdom
slug: united-kingdom
summaryShort: The women's suffrage movement in Washington was part of the broader Women's suffrage movement in the United States. In the state of Washington, women gained and lost the right to vote repeatedly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
summaryLong: The women's suffrage movement in Washington was part of the broader Women's suffrage movement in the United States. In the state of Washington, women gained and lost the right to vote repeatedly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
lede: In 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union in Manchester, launching a more aggressive campaign for voting rights in Britain. For the next 15 years, suffragettes used civil disobedience, property damage, and hunger strikes to demand the vote—tactics that divided the movement but kept women's suffrage impossible to ignore.
heroImageUrl: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Women_voting%2C_Seattle%2C_1911.jpg/1280px-Women_voting%2C_Seattle%2C_1911.jpg"
heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "Women's suffrage movement in Washington"
importance: 86
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage_movement_in_Washington"
  title: Women's suffrage movement in Washington
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- election
- protest
metaDescription: Emmeline Pankhurst's 1903 WSPU transformed the UK suffrage fight from petitions to direct action, reshaping politics for a generation.
wikidataQid: Q30325201
taxonomy:
domain: social_movement
eventTypes:
- activist_campaign
- protest
canonicalClasses:
- mobilization
- transformation
impactRadius: national
velocity: gradual
predictability: emergent
intentionality: coordinated
domainCoupling: multi_domain
lifecycleClass: growth
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260512145658/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_movement_in_Washington"
  capturedAt: 2026-05-12
  label: Women's suffrage movement in Washington
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage_movement_in_Washington"
