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In this series, historian Amanda Vickery explores why, in the early 20th century, thousands of British women joined a violent militant organization. The suffragette campaign was the conclusion of a fight that women, rich and poor, had been pursuing for hundreds of years against a system that gave men complete legal, political, and physical control over the other half of the population. In Part 1, Vickery examines how revolutionary politics of the...