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Hunger strikers waving to Christabel Pankhurst from their cells in Holloway Prison, London, 1909. The fourteen suffragettes went on hunger in protest at the government's refusal to treat them as political prisoners. They broke panes in their cell windows in protest against poor ventilation. Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958) was one of the leaders of the British suffragette movement. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/Stapleton Historical Collection)