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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.
Ellen Crocker (known as Nelly or Nellie) was born in 1872 in Stogumber, Somerset.Her father was a doctor, and she had a sister, Emma. [1]Crocker joined the suffragette movement but left when her cousin Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and husband Frederick were expelled from the Women's Social and Political Union by the Pankhurts.
[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.
By the end of the year, 240 people had been sent to prison for militant suffragette activities. [1] Christabel Pankhurst set up a new weekly WSPU newspaper at this time named The Suffragette. [19] The newspaper began devoting double-page spreads to reporting the bomb and arson attacks that were now regularly occurring around the country.
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.
Flora McKinnon Drummond (née Gibson; 4 August 1878 – 17 January 1949) was a British suffragette. [1] Nicknamed 'The General' for her habit of leading women's rights marches wearing a military style uniform 'with an officers cap and epaulettes' [2] and riding on a large horse, Drummond was an organiser for the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and was arrested nine times for her ...
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]