This is our showcase walk. Our owner  and walks guide Ian is a leading expert on all matters Suffragette, and his novel Suffragette Autumn Women’s Spring is highly regarded.

Much of the Suffragettes’ fight for “Votes for Women,” took place in Central London. We show you where it all happened, amidst some of London’s most famous landmarks including Horseguards Parade, Downing Street & the Houses of Parliament.

We start by telling you how the Suffragettes got started and how they had to survive  an early split in their party. And we show you the very railings to which women famously chained themselves. We see the spot where many of the biggest protest marches started, and then head through Horseguards Parade to see a back view of No.10 before heading along the street where so much Suffragette action took place. Marches, stone-throwing, propaganda, police brutality, it all happened here. There’s other interesting feminist history too such as the Women of World War 2 memorial. We then see Westminster’s most recent memorial, to the leader of the largest of the law abiding Suffragist parties, whose sister was one of the most famous Suffragettes of them all.

We show you a large number of photographs from the times, which bring the streets of Edwardian London to life. We tell you all about the big events and major characters involved. Brave women, scheming politicians, great marches & speeches, violence, arson, prison, force feeding, the Pankhursts, Asquith, Churchill, Lloyd-George, it’s all here. We tell you a shocking, unknown story about Mr Churchill’s views on women gaining the vote.

We finish outside the Houses of Parliament, where you hear how women finally gained the vote.

Start: Embankment underground station
Finish: Mrs Pankhurst’s statue outside Parliament or Westminster underground station