Suffragettes | Women recall their struggle to win the vote
In Town Tonight | The Suffragette Movement
A suffragette and a photographer remember an eventful court case.
CHANNEL | Home Service
FIRST BROADCAST | 29 January 1955
DURATION | 2 minutes 50 seconds
FIRSTBROADCAST
1955
Synopsis
Una Duval was imprisoned in 1909 after getting into a scuffle with a police officer during the campaign for women's votes. In this discussion with interviewer John Ellison, Mrs Duval is introduced to Arthur Barrett, a photographer whose unusual methods enabled him to take a celebrated photo of the suffragette movement's leading figures, Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, her daughter Christabel Pankhurst and Mrs Flora Drummond.
Did you know?
Flora Drummond (pictured above) was also known as 'The General', due to the military-style uniform she adopted on marches and demonstrations.
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