Forward sisters!

Much being made of the fact that it was a hundred years ago that for the first time (some) women got the vote.  And we're supposed to be remembering the suffragettes who, history has it, were mainly responsible for bringing this about,  Not too sure it's that simple,  The suffragettes were at the extreme end of a much wider movement arguing for extending the right to vote (usually referred to as suffragists) and who became impatient with what they saw as the lack of progress and decided that direct action was the only way anything was going to get done.  You have to decide for yourself if they were right, but it's certainly arguable that their antics - and in particular the violence they caused - actually set the idea of votes for women back rather then advanced it.