An article from The Guardian on the suffrage movement in the UK. Like the American movement, the British had a militant and a peaceful wing. However, the militants were much more violent in the UK. It's also interesting that the militants embraced the term "suffragettes" while the peaceful activists still referred to themselves as "suffragists." The author makes an important point that this piece of history is often sanitised, if not completely overlooked.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/06/1910s-suffragettes-suffragists-fern-riddell
I thought this article was really interesting as well! I think it's curious how although both women in Britain and the US were met with violence, the suffragists in the US never felt compelled to get as violent as the suffragettes. A lot of them were pacifists, but I still think it took a lot of restraint to not meet violence with violence.
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