A new analysis of YouGov Profiles data from nearly 16,000 people reveals that Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the Suffragette movement, is the historical figure most particularly admired by women in Britain. With a correlation score of 6.0 Pankhurst is the model historical figure for women, ahead of the next four figures who score between 2.9 and 3.4.

American civil rights activist Rosa Parks; British WWI nurse Edith Cavell; Mary Seacole, nurse in the Crimean War; and Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, are also particular heroes of British women.