A series of exhibitions and events across the district will celebrate the impact of the suffragettes, and mark 100 years since they helped secure the vote for women.

And next month, there will be a major event that will recreate one of the most significant women’s rights moments in Bradford ‘s history.

Suffragettes and Propaganda, which recently opened at Cartwright Hall, examines both the suffragette movement and the backlash to it from the establishment.

The exhibition was created to mark 100 years since Parliament passed a law which allowed some women, and all men, to vote for the first time: the 1918 Representation of the People Act.

Based in the Lister Park gallery’s Cellar Gallery, the exhibition features posters, badges, leaflets, clothes, and weapons the women used for sabotage.

The Cartwright Hall exhibition runs until September, and as well as the historic artefacts on view, there will also be more modern pieces on display, showing how women today are paying tribute to the suffrage campaign.

The modern works include poetry by Bradford’s Amira Khatun, ceramics by Hebden Bridge based Katch Skinner, printmaking by Bradford’s artist Ruth Fettis and the women’s art group she’s been working with, called ‘Of the People’.

Bradford Industrial Museum is also marking 100 years of women having the vote with its Spinning a Yarn exhibition, which looks at the role of women in the UK’s industrial history, including in Bradford’s textile mills. That exhibition also runs until September.

And the Suffragette movement is also soon to be celebrated with an event on Shipley Glen that will re-create a mass rally at the same site 110 years ago.

On May 28, the suffragettes will be remembered with an event called Hats Off Forward Together, marking the march on Shipley Glen that some historians say attracted around 100,000 people.

The event will see people assemble in Roberts Park, Saltaire, at 11.30am before marching on to Shipley Glen, either via the Shipley Glen Tramway or by walking up the footpath.

At the top there will be a “Suffrage to Citizen” celebration to mark 100 years of women getting the vote. There will be entertainment, music, stalls and other family activities.

The event has been organised by Bradford Council and a number of other groups including Saltaire WI, Baildon WI, Irregular Arts and the Shipley Feminist Zealots group.

In the run up to the event, local arts groups will be holding workshops to create suffragette hats and banners that will be used at the celebration.