Days in the Life at the Guardian: 6 November 1908

During the 57-year editorship of CP Scott, the Manchester Guardian carried coverage of the suffragette movement, led by women's groups demanding the vote. In 1908, a decade before they would finally succeed, Emmeline Pankhurst and other suffragettes were imprisoned in London after trying to enter the Houses of Parliament. A storm of protest ensued – some of it from anti-suffrage campaigners, appalled by the very idea of women being allowed to vote. Interestingly, the Guardian gave space to both sides.