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Tom Marshall painstakingly colourised these pictures, including some of the most iconic images of the suffragette struggle. Women finally got the vote on February 6 - but only under certain conditions. They had to be either a member of or married to a member of the Local Government Register, a property owner, or a graduate voting in a university constituency.

This only applied to 40 per cent of women - but ten years later the age limit was lowered and they finally had the same voting rights as men. A female munitions worker in a British factory during World War One, which was one of the catalysts for women finally getting the vote. Emmeline Pankhurst in She led the suffragette movement, was arrested repeatedly and force fed when she went on hunger strike.

Emmeline lived until June and lived long enough to see women get equal voting rights to men. Emmeline was setting off for a lecture tour of the US and Canada. A woman peers through a smashed window at Holloway Prison after an explosion at a nearby suffragette safe house. This iconic picture of Emmeline Pankhurst being arrested was taken outside Buckingham Palace after she tried to present a petition to King George V in May Mabel Capper is arrested in Bow Street in She wears the colours of the Women's Social and Political Union with a purple, white and green medal ribbon.

Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, editor of the weekly newspaper, Votes for Women, wrote, 'Purple as everyone knows is the royal colour, it stands for the royal blood that flows in the veins of every suffragette, the instinct of freedom and dignity. White stands for purity in private and public life. Green is the colour of hope and the emblem of spring.