Pank-a-Squith
''Pank-a-Squith'' was a political board game about the suffragette movement created around 1909. It was created for the British Women's Social and Political Union as a way to generate funds and help spread women's suffrage ideologies. History ''Pank-a-Squith'' was created for the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and produced by a German company around 1909. It was named after two important figures in the British suffrage movement: the suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and British Prime Minister and opponent of women's suffrage, H. H. Asquith. Its name can be read as "Pankhurst vs Asquith," since both individuals were opponents in their views on women's suffrage. Starting in 1909, the game was sold in the WSPU shops in Britain and was used as a way to generate funds for the suffragette movement. ''Pank-a-Squith'' was also first advertised in 1909 in the newspaper, ''Votes for Women''. According to the WSPU in their own advertisement, the game was sold as ...
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Suffragette Movement
A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for women's suffrage, the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, which engaged in direct action and civil disobedience. In 1906, a reporter writing in the ''Daily Mail'' coined the term ''suffragette'' for the WSPU, derived from Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom#Pressure groups, suffragist (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. The militants embraced the new name, even reappropriation, adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU. Women had won the right to vote in several countries by the end of the 19th century; in 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing count ...
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