Great Pilgrimage
| Great Pilgrimage | |||
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| Part of first-wave feminism | |||
Katherine Harley addresses a meeting at Olton during the Great Pilgrimage. | |||
| Date | 18 June – 26 July 1913 | ||
| Location | Marchers converged on Hyde Park, London, England 51°30′31″N 0°09′49″W / 51.508611°N 0.163611°W | ||
| Caused by | Fight for women's suffrage | ||
| Methods | Demonstrations, marches | ||
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| Lead figures | |||
Millicent Fawcett (NUWSS) Prime Minister H. H. Asquith | |||
The Great Pilgrimage of 1913 was a march in Britain by suffragists campaigning nonviolently for women's suffrage, organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). Women marched to London from all around England and Wales and 50,000 attended a rally in Hyde Park.