A statue commemorating suffragette Emily Davison was unveiled in her hometown of Morpeth, Northumberland, on 11 September 2018.
On 11 September 2018, a bronze statue of Emily Wilding Davison was unveiled in Morpeth, Northumberland, near the town's shopping centre, in recognition of her connection to the town where her family lived and where she was ultimately buried. The unveiling formed part of a wider wave of public commemorations across Britain marking the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which had granted some women the right to vote.
The statue depicts Davison in motion, evoking her activism and her fateful actions at the 1913 Epsom Derby, and serves as a permanent, publicly accessible tribute to her role in the suffrage movement. Its installation reflected a broader reassessment in British public memory of the militant suffragettes, moving from earlier characterisations of figures like Davison as reckless extremists toward recognition as courageous campaigners for fundamental democratic rights.
The Morpeth statue joined a small number of public monuments to individual suffragettes erected in the UK around this centenary period, helping to anchor Davison's legacy in physical, civic space more than a century after her death, and ensuring that new generations encountering the statue would learn of her story and sacrifice.