A 1903 penny on view at the British Museum features the words "Votes for Women" letter-stamped by a suffragette over the face of the king. Although the penny was issued in 1903, the vandalism was ...

Rockford residents have a chance to mark a milestone in local history at a riverfront celebration this summer. The Rockford Women’s Suffrage Coalition is scheduled to host a five-year anniversary ...

From gifts and family heirlooms to estate sale finds, our collectors have given us a wonderfully varied group of treasures to review this month, ranging in value up from a pressed glass oil lamp and ...

The first International Women's Day was held on March 19, 1911, to call attention to the fact that women the world over had limited (if any) rights to work, to vote, to be trained, or to hold public ...

A policeman tries to seize a banner from a suffragette during Britain’s Black Friday on Nov. 18, 1910. The Daily Mirror Just days before Black Friday 2023, I learned about the Black Friday of 1910 — ...