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The sitcom is set in 1910 and focuses on the women of the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle and their level of commitment to the women's suffrage movement. [1] Having seen the Women's suffrage movement in London, Margaret (Jessica Hynes) returns to Banbury and asks the ladies of her local craft circle to support the cause.
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.
Press Cuttings (1909), subtitled A Topical Sketch Compiled from the Editorial and Correspondence Columns of the Daily Papers, is a play by George Bernard Shaw.It is a farcical comedy about the suffragettes' campaign for votes for women in Britain.
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 ...
Called "Special Effort and Special Self-Denial Week", there was an aim of raising £100,000, part of which was put towards "a procession on May 28, the largest and the most beautiful that has ever passed through the streets of London Town." [21] The week of 20 March 1911. In February, the suffragette paper Votes for Women stated: "The week of ...
[14] [1] Much focus is therefore placed on how militancy alienated the British public by making the campaign appear “absurd”, and presenting women as too emotional and irrational to participate in politics. [15] Suffragette historian Paula Bartley also presents a constitutionalist analysis in her account of the actions of Suffragettes.
The Suffragette replaced Votes for Women as the paper of the WSPU. [11] In 1938 Pethick-Lawrence published her memoirs, which discuss the radicalization of the suffrage movement just before the First World War. [12] She was involved in the setting up of the Suffragette Fellowship with Edith How-Martyn to document the movement. [13]
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.