Editing Letter bomb (section)

==Use by suffragettes==
{{see also|Suffragette bombing and arson campaign}}
One of, if not the first, groups to consistently use letter bombs on a wide scale were the British [[suffragettes]] of the [[Women's Social and Political Union]] in the years before the [[First World War]].<ref name="Sky" /> The group were the original inventors of a form of letter bomb designed to maim or kill politicians or opponents.<ref name="Sky">{{Cite web |title=Letter bombs and IEDs: Were the suffragettes terrorists? |url=https://news.sky.com/story/women-would-have-got-the-vote-earlier-if-not-for-suffragette-terrorists-11227772 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241227164910/http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-443283 |url-status=live |archive-date=2024-12-27 |access-date=2021-01-08 |website=Sky News |language=en}}</ref> In 1913, numerous letter bombs were sent to politicians such as the [[Chancellor of the Exchequer|Chancellor]] [[David Lloyd George]] and [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[H.H. Asquith]], but they invariably all exploded in post offices, post boxes or in mailbags while in transit across the country.<ref name="Fern">{{Cite book|last=Riddell|first=Fern|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KQWgDwAAQBAJ|title=Death in Ten Minutes: The forgotten life of radical suffragette Kitty Marion|year=2018 |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |isbn=978-1-4736-6621-4|language=en|page=122}}</ref> Suffragettes also once attempted to [[assassinate]] a judge they considered to be anti-[[women's suffrage]], Sir [[Henry Curtis-Bennett (Chief Metropolitan Magistrate)|Henry Curtis-Bennett]], with a letter-bomb made partly out of bullets, but the bomb was intercepted by London postal workers before it could reach him.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Riddell|first=Fern|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KQWgDwAAQBAJ|title=Death in Ten Minutes: The forgotten life of radical suffragette Kitty Marion|year=2018 |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |isbn=978-1-4736-6621-4|language=en|pages=155–156}}</ref>