In March 1912, over 250 women smashed windows across London in a bold protest for women's suffrage, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, uncover the suffragettes'' daring protest and secret tactics for women's voting in Britain.

Over two evenings in March 1912, more than 250 women – old and young, rich and poor, strong and delicate – were arrested and charged with using hammers and stones to smash the windows of shops and offices across London. The youngest amongst them was 19-year-old teenager glass-breaker and Kent working maid, Ethel Violet Baldock, while the eldest was 79-year-old Mrs Hilda Eliza Brackenbury, owner of suffragette safe house, Mouse Castle, in Campden Hill Square. 

These two evenings would later become known as the Women’s Social and Political Union’s window smashing Great Militant Protest. The protest, driven by WSPU leader Emmeline Pankhurst, was against the government and their refusal to include women in their reform bill, which would give women the right to vote. Secret Missions of the Suffragettes examines these two evenings in great detail, before going on to explore 'behind the scenes' of the movement; the safe houses and rest homes used by the history-shaping women involved, together with stories of the women themselves, as well as their self defense training and use of disguises and alias names, all of which were needed to be a part of such a militant campaign.

Discover their stories, motives, plans, tactics and antics as Jennifer Godfrey explores the connections, friendships and collaborations that would help change the course of history for women in Britain.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Glossary
• PART ONE
  • Chapter 1 A Great Militant Protest
  • Chapter 2 Preliminary Action
  • Chapter 3 Orchestrated Mass Window Smashing
  • Chapter 4 Conspiracy to Incite Others & Christabel Escapes
  • Chapter 5 Scottish Connections & the Holloway Jingles
  • Chapter 6 Protestors from Overseas
  • Chapter 7 Sentencing and Prison Life for the Glassbreakers
  • Chapter 8 Spirit of Loyalty and Love for the Cause
  • Chapter 9 Concerned Relatives, Hunger Striking & Forcible Feeding
  • Chapter 10 Friendships and Connections
  • Additional Images
• PART TWO
  • Chapter 11 Alias Names
  • Chapter 12 Jujitsu and Security Team called ‘The Bodyguard’
  • Chapter 13 Suffragette Surveillance and Suffragette Safe Houses
• Annex 1 List of March 1912 Glassbreakers
• Annex 2 List of Signatories Embroidered onto Cloth/Handkerchiefs by Suffragette Prisoners in Holloway in 1912
• Endnotes