1906 WSPU march

Emmeline Pankhurst (WSPU) Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman The 1906 WSPU march on 19 February 1906 was the first march held in London to demand the right to vote for women in the United Kingdom.

[1] Two hundred women from Bow, Bromley, Canning Town and Poplar in the East End marched to Caxton Hall, near the Commons, from St James's Park tube station.

Over the following two hours, the women were allowed to enter in groups of 20 to lobby their MPs.

[3] The Daily Mirror reported the event on page 5: "Voteless Women.

"[4] Emmeline Pankhurst saw the march as the beginning of a militant women's suffrage movement.