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Shoulder to Shoulder is a 1974 BBC television serial relating the history of the women's suffrage movement, created by script editor Midge Mackenzie, producer Verity Lambert and actor Georgia Brown. It was broadcast on BBC2 between 3 April and 8 May 1974.
Up the Women is a BBC television sitcom created, written by and starring Jessica Hynes.It was first broadcast on BBC Four on 30 May 2013. The sitcom is about a group of women in 1910 who form a Women's Suffrage movement.
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Elizabeth Bellamy becomes involved in the Suffragette movement and she joins a group of militant suffragettes. She is participating in an attack on a government minister's London home. Elizabeth is arrested, along with her innocent housemaid Rose. Julius Karekin, who exiting the MP's house, finds Elizabeth's card. Julius Karekin (born 1875) is ...
The women formed a new body, the Suffragettes of the WSPU. [2] In the general election of 1918, in which for the first time, limited female suffrage was granted, Lamartine Yates was adopted as Labour candidate for the Wimbledon constituency, but both she and the Liberal candidate withdrew shortly before polling. [12]
Mary Ann Aldham signed the Suffragette Handkerchief, Holloway 1912.. After joining the Women's Social and Political Union in about 1908 Aldham was arrested at least seven times: [1] on 14 October 1908 and 19 November 1908 (as Mary Ann Mitchell Oldham); [7] 22 November 1911; 7 March 1912; 19 March 1912; 17 November 1913 and 4 May 1914. [8]
The Suffrage Special envoys outside Washington, D.C., on their return in May 1916. The Suffrage Special was an event created by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in 1916. The Suffrage Special toured the "free states" which had already allowed women's suffrage in the United States. The delegates were raising awareness of the national ...
The Thomson sisters were active members of the Edinburgh WSPU and were involved in protests in London and Scotland. On 21 November 1911, they were among the 223 protesters arrested at a WSPU demonstration at the House of Commons, to which they had travelled with other women from the Edinburgh branch, including Jessie C. Methven, Edith Hudson, Alice Shipley and Mrs N Grieve. [2]