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A political history of Britain in the places where it happened: parliament and palace, courts and counting houses, and the streets where people pushed back.
The militant suffragette leader, commemorated in a garden beside the Parliament she besieged.
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Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903 and led the campaign that made Westminster its target: deputations that tried to force their way into the Palace, broken windows, arrests, hunger strikes and the forcible feeding that followed them. The memorial went up in 1930, a bronze by Arthur George Walker, and was later extended to take in her daughter Christabel. As sculpture it is unremarkable. As political geography it is superb, standing in sight of the building she spent years making uncomfortable - and it makes a pair with Millicent Fawcett across the road in Parliament Square, the constitutional campaigner and the militant one, the same aim pursued in ways that could not be reconciled.
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