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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.
Seasons
Episode 1
The Pankhursts
1h 15m
1898: 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.
Episode 2
Annie Kenney
1h 15m
1904: Annie Kenney - a mill worker since the age of ten. What has Women's Suffrage to offer her?
Episode 3
Lady Constance Lytton
1h 15m
1908: 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.
Episode 4
Christabel Pankhurst
1h 15m
Black Friday, 18 November 1910. A violent struggle in Parliament Square between suffragettes and police. But why don't the police arrest the suffragettes...?
Episode 5
Outrage
1h 15m
The campaign grows: suffragettes destroy property and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.
Episode 6Latest episode
Sylvia Pankhurst
1h 15m
1914: War is declared, and women still do not have the vote.
