Women who chained themselves to railings and starved in prison won the vote

From the 1860s, suffragists petitioned peacefully for decades with little result. In 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union under the motto 'deeds, not words': members chained themselves to railings, smashed windows and endured forced feeding on hunger strike. British women over 30 won the vote in 1918, full equal suffrage in 1928 — the year Pankhurst died.

— Diane Atkinson, Rise Up, Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes — Bloomsbury, 2018
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