Suffragettes: 90th anniversary of right to vote

Emmeline Pankhurst adresses a crowd in 1911. She was one of the founding members of the British suffragette movement Photograph: Getty

Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel wearing prison uniforms during a spell in jail Photograph: Getty

A suffragette under arrest in Dundee circa 1910. Scotland's first suffrage movements emerged in the late 1860s but peaceful protest achieved only minor change until the early 1900s when activists took a militant approach Photograph: Getty

Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested at a protest outside Buckingham Palace. Her tactics for drawing attention to the suffragette cause led her to jail several times Photograph: Unknown

Emmeline Pankhurst leaves the court at Epsom in February 1913 with James Murray, a former MP who stood bail for her. She went on hunger strike several times during imprisonment Photograph: Getty

Sylvia Pankhurst, daughter of founding suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, takes a break from painting the front of the Women's Social Defence League premises in Bow Road, east London, to address a crowd Photograph: Getty

A suffragette selling a newsheet outside Bow Street magistrates court in May 1913, where some suffragettes were being tried Photograph: Getty

Two suffragettes selling The Suffragette at the Henley Regatta in July 1913 Photograph: Getty

A woman reading the Suffragette on an open-top London bus. The movement was born out of women's social and economic frustration Photograph: Getty

Women with sandwich boards advertising a suffragettes' meeting Photograph: N Miller/Getty

Suffragette Annie Kenney is arrested during a demonstration. She was credited with encouraging militant suffragettes when she heckled Winston Churchill at a meeting in 1905. She was subsequently imprisoned Photograph: Getty

A woman restrained by three policemen during disturbances outside Buckingham Palace. Suffragettes turned to direct action, such as chaining themselves to railings and smashing windows Photograph: Getty

A woman peers through a shattered window in Holloway prison after suffragettes caused an explosion at the jail in 1913 Photograph: Getty

Emily Davison is fatally injured trying to stop the king's horse, Amner, at the Epsom Derby in June 1913 Photograph: Arthur Barrett/Getty

Crowds line Emily Davison's funeral procession. Some eyewitnesses believed she had been trying to cross the track, believing all the horses had passed, though others said she had tried to pull down the king's horse Photograph: Getty

The front page of The Suffragette newspaper depicts Emily Davison as an angel on 13th June 1913 Photograph: Sean Sexton/Getty

Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst in a polling booth circa 1910. In 1918 parliament granted the vote to women over 30 who were householders, the wives of householders, occupiers of property with an annual rent of £5, and graduates of British universities Photograph: PA