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Documentary series presented by Amanda Vickery. Vickery explores how the Edwardian suffragette movement became a quasi-terrorist organisation enacting a violent campaign.

In the final episode of her story of British women's fight for power, the historian Amanda Vickery explores how the Edwardian suffragette movement became a quasi-terrorist organisation. She asks what they achieved with their violent campaign and argues they are best understood as part of a war still going on today.

Vickery brings to life the enemies of female suffrage too, from the golfing prime minister Herbert Asquith, who had nightmares of being stripped naked by angry suffragettes, to the furious anti-suffrage societies and their mass meetings in the Royal Albert Hall. She describes the political skulduggery to stop women getting the vote and the increasing extremism of the suffragettes in response.

So what did the suffragettes achieve? Vickery describes the political backroom deal that finally allowed some women the vote, the abusive treatment of the first female MP Lady Astor and the misogynistic backlash of the 1920s, revealed through attitudes to a great women's football team. The series concludes looking ahead 50 years after women won the vote to Margaret Thatcher. Was her election a sign that the suffragette dream had been fulfilled, or is this a fight that is still going on today?

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Thu 21 Jun 2018 01:30
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Credits

Presenter Amanda Vickery
Director Rupert Edwards
Series Producer Rupert Edwards
Executive Producer Ross Wilson
Producer Rebecca Burrell

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