BBC - Suffragettes Forever! the Story of Women and Power (2015) Part 3

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 explores how the Edwardian suffragettes started to employ violence to ensure their message was heard, examining what they achieved with these tactics and arguing they are best understood as part of a war still going on today. The historian also looks at the enemies of women's rights, from prime minister Herbert Asquith to the furious anti-suffrage societies and their mass meetings in the Royal Albert Hall, and describes the political manoeuvring that went on to stop women getting the vote.

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