BBC - Suffragettes Forever! the Story of Women and Power (2015) Part 2

Suffragettes Forever! The Story of Women and Power

Historian Amanda Vickery uncovers the 300 year-long campaign by women for political and sex equality in Britain, revealing the largely forgotten heroines (and a few heroes) who fought for the cause. In this series, historian Amanda Vickery explores why, in the early 20th century, thousands of British women joined a violent militant organisation. In the struggle for women's political rights in Britain, the most iconic are the suffragettes - but for Vickery the story begins long before these Edwardian activists.

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Amanda Vickery examines the development of women's rights during the reign of Queen Victoria, revealing how the spurned mistress of a prime minister won the first piece of modern feminist legislation in the form of child custody rights for mothers. The historian also looks at how an activist got the age of consent raised and helped to overthrow pernicious laws against prostitutes, and explores why a certain Mrs Pankhurst and her daughters decided it was time to resort to deeds not words.

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