Up and About | Elizabeth Dean

In this brief extract from a longer programme, 'Up and About' marks the 50th anniversary of the act that gave women the vote. Richard Hemingway hears from Elizabeth Dean, a former-suffragette in her nineties from Manchester, who reveals that the campaign for universal suffrage wasn't just a middle-class pursuit. For women such as Mrs Dean, gaining the right to vote was part of a wider objective to avoid being just 'child-bearing machines' like her mother, who died in her late-thirties after having eight children.