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The headquarters were located in the east end of London. Sylvia Pankhurst and Lady Sybil Smith were determined that the Suffragettes' campaign should continue, and in February 1913 opened a permanent East End headquarters at Roman Road .

Sylvia Pankhurst's policy was to combine large scale public demonstrations with public militancy. She herself went under a sucession of arrests, hunger and thirst strikes and forcible feedings. East London federation of the WSPU (The Women's Social and Political Union) was formally instituted on 27th May 1913 in order to unite the local branches and unlike its parent organisation had a demecratic structure.

In the Summer of 1913 the ELF held two mass demonstrations in Trafalgar Square. Sylvia Pankhurst accrued considerable publicity for her subsequent hunger and thirst strikes. By the end of January 1914, the ELF had been