Suffragettes | Women recall their struggle to win the vote
CHANNEL | The Light Programme
FIRST BROADCAST | circa 1958
DURATION | 6 minutes 2 seconds
FIRSTBROADCAST
1958
In this short item from 'Woman's Hour', Marjorie Anderson speaks to Winifred Starbuck who, as a schoolgirl, had been enamoured with the suffragette movement. When one of her own school mistresses was dismissed for suspected involvement in suffragette activities, she and her friends took it upon themselves to begin a campaign of disobedience and disruption.
Dame Ethel Smyth remembers a window breaking campaign.
Memories of an aerial leafleting campaign.
Risking arrest to campaign for the tax-paying woman's vote.
The achievements of the suffragette leader are recalled by her daughter.
A suffragette and a photographer remember an eventful court case.

A schoolgirl suffragette.
Memories of a militant suffragette.
Remembering when Emily Davison leapt under the King's horse.
Two eminent peers share their experiences of the suffrage movement.
Two veterans of the suffragette movement talk about the early days of the campaign.
Mrs Pankhurst's chief organiser shares her story.
Joan Bakewell meets a veteran suffragette.
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