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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.
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.
The purpose of a very special episode is generally to raise awareness of an issue and encourage those affected to seek help if necessary. For example, the Diff'rent Strokes episode "The Bicycle Man", in the same year it was released, influenced a child in La Porte, Indiana, to inform his mother of a pedophile in the area, and the LaPorte police department credited the episode for the man's ...
She did not mention this episode in her life until she saw, for the first time, her photograph in the Sunday Times. She reported that she considered herself as unimportant in the suffragette movement, although she had met Olive Hockin (Number 2), Margaret Macfarlane (Number 3) and Jane Short (Number 6). Her story became a source of pride to her ...
Margaret Rose "Midge" MacKenzie, (6 March 1938 – 28 January 2004) was a London-born writer and filmmaker who first become known for producing Robert Joffrey's multimedia ballet Astarte with the Joffrey Ballet, and Women Talking, a documentary with interviews of Kate Millett, Betty Friedan and other leading figures in the US women's liberation movement.
Watson was born at 11 Vennel, Edinburgh on 13 July 1900, the daughter of Agnes Newton and Horatio Watson, [1] a bookbinder for George Watson's printing company. [2] Watson was encouraged to take up piping at the age of seven or eight as her parents hoped it would strengthen her lungs against tuberculosis after her aunt Margaret died of the disease.
The WSPU stopped publishing The Suffragette, and in April 1915 it launched a new journal, Britannia. While the majority of WSPU members supported the war, a small number formed the Suffragettes of the Women's Social Political Union (SWSPU) and the Independent Women's Social and Political Union (IWSPU), led by Charlotte Marsh , and including ...
Suffs is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Shaina Taub, based on suffragists and the American women's suffrage movement, focusing primarily on the historical events leading up to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920 that gave some women the right to vote.