Derisively labelled ‘suffragettes’ by Daily Mail journalist Charles E Hands, they formed a new militant wing of the women's suffrage movement. These women staged headline-grabbing stunts ...

At this point they were still calling themselves suffragists, but after a few years of activism the 'Daily Mail' would dub these new, feisty protestors Suffragettes - a derisory, diminutive term ...

In 1910, a branch of the WSPU was founded in York and its members became known as suffragettes. It was the Daily Mail that coined the term suffragette in January 1906 as a term of disrespect ...