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Images from the Industrial Revolution, Suffragette Movement,Emmeline Pankhurst, and Child Labour in Great Britain Colored engraving of Peterloo Massacre (1819) by George Cruikshank, 1819; the banner the woman is holding should read: Female Reformers of Roynton, Let us die like men and not be sold like slaves. British women's suffrage leader Emmeline Pankhurst arrested, May 1914 In 1833 the Government passed a Factory Act to improve conditions for children working in factories. Emmeline Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst and Sylvia Pankhurst formed the Women's Social and Political Union to recruit more working class women into the struggle for the vote. Great Britain Industrial Revolution The 1918 Representation of the People Act gave women of property over the age of 30 the right to vote. Full equality for women over the age of 21 began in 1928.
 
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