In Pictures: Charting protests by suffragettes that helped lead to law change

A suffragette campaigning for the vote in 1908

A suffragette procession passing through Parliament Square, London, in 1908

Flora Drummond, left, giving instructions to suffragettes dressed as prisoners in 1908

Members of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) on a horse-drawn carriage driven by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1910

Suffragette Miss Pankhurst addressing the crowd in Trafalgar Square during a rally

Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst, who was one of Emmeline Pankhurst’s three daughters, at her desk in 1911

Emmeline Pankhurst leaving Bow Street after getting bail on a conspiracy charge in 1912

Suffragette Emily Davison after she was fatally injured by the king’s horse during the Epsom Derby in 1913

Suffragettes during a mass meeting at the Royal Albert Hall in 1913

Emmeline Pankhurst, one of the founding members of the Women’s Social and Political Union, being arrested by police outside Buckingham Palace in 1914, while trying to present a petition to George V

A police officer restraining a demonstrator in 1914 as suffragettes gathered outside Buckingham Palace

A suffragette being arrested by police officers in 1914

Universal adult suffrage came to Britain in 1929 and these women, between the ages of 21 and 28, trooped down to the polling station in Stepney, east London, to vote for the first time

Women’s activist Amika George, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (second left), Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces Lucy Worsley (second right) and Deputy Mayor Justine Simons (right) at the opening of an exhibition in Trafalgar Square to mark the centenary of women’s suffrage