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The Suffragettes was a British movement in the early 20th century which campaigned for women's rights, particularly the right to vote.
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In 1906, the First Doctor and Steven Taylor worked with the Suffragette Ruby Watkins to stop a group of aliens from interfering in Earth history. The three later stumbled across a Suffragette protest which Ruby had been planning to attend before she'd become entangled in the alien plot. (AUDIO: Peace in Our Time [+]Loading...["Peace in Our Time (audio story)"])
In 1912, the First Doctor, Steven Taylor and Vicki Pallister met the suffragette Constance Arden. Vicki later attended a rally with Arden. (AUDIO: The Suffering [+]Loading...["The Suffering (audio story)"])
Constance Harding was a suffragette whom the Seventh Doctor met while he was living as a human in England in 1913. (PROSE: Human Nature [+]Loading...["Human Nature (novel)"])
The Eighth Doctor claimed to have chained the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst to the railings outside 10 Downing Street. (PROSE: Casualties of War [+]Loading...["Casualties of War (novel)"]) The Tenth Doctor later claimed that Pankhurst had stolen his laser spanner. (TV: Smith and Jones [+]Loading...["Smith and Jones (TV story)"])