Shoulder to Shoulder
“How women fought for the vote”
Shoulder to Shoulder is a 1974 BBC drama serial created through the collaboration of actress Georgia Brown, filmmaker Midge Mackenzie, and producer Verity Lambert. A dramatisation of the history of the women's suffrage movement in Britain, focusing on the Pankhurst family and their fight for women's right to vote, the six-part series, starring Siân Phillips as Emmeline Pankhurst, is considered a landmark in feminist television drama.
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A dramatisation of the history of the women's suffrage movement in Britain, focusing on the Pankhurst family and their fight for women's right to vote.
1.The Pankhursts
03-04-197475m1898: Dr and Mrs Pankhurst and their four children are living comfortably in Manchester. However, in that year an event occurs which will radically change all their lives.
2.Annie Kenney
10-04-197475m1904: Annie Kenney - a mill worker since the age of ten. What has Women's Suffrage to offer her?
3.Lady Constance Lytton
17-04-197475m1908: Constance Lytton : daughter of the Viceroy of India, she came from one of the leading families in the land. Almost any door was open for her.
4.Christabel Pankhurst
24-04-197475mBlack Friday, 18 November 1910. A violent struggle in Parliament Square between suffragettes and police. But why don't the police arrest the suffragettes...?
5.Outrage
01-05-197475mThe campaign grows: suffragettes destroy property and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.
6.Sylvia Pankhurst
08-05-197475m1914: War is declared, and women still do not have the vote.
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