Suffragette suffragettes chaining themselves to railings, setting fire to post box contents, smashing windows and eventually detonating bombs. Some radical techniques used by the suffragettes were learned from Russian exiles from tsarism who had escaped to England. In 1914, at least seven churches were bombed or set on fire across the United Kingdom, including Westminster Abbey, where an explosion aimed at destroying the 700-year-old Coronation Chair, only caused minor damage. One suffragette, Emily Davison, died under the King's horse, Anmer, at The Derby on 4 June 1913. It is debated whether she was trying to pull down the horse, attach a
Edith Mansell-Moullin ill from lack of food, but then re-imprisoned them as soon as they had sufficiently recovered. That same year, Dr. Mansel Moullin performed surgery on Emily Davison after she was trampled by King George V's horse at The Derby, though he was unable to save her. Mansel Moullin resigned from the WSPU, in part because of its decision to suspend anti-government protests during the war. As a pacifist, Mansel Moullin neither supported the war, nor believed that social responsibility should be suspended. Disturbed by the practice of arresting German mine workers who were working in Welsh mines, causing the minor's