Shoulder to Shoulder — Season 1
How women fought for the vote
About this season
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.
Episodes (6)
1. The Pankhursts
Aired 3 April 1974 • 75 min
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.
2. Annie Kenney
Aired 10 April 1974 • 75 min
1904: Annie Kenney - a mill worker since the age of ten. What has Women's Suffrage to offer her?
3. Lady Constance Lytton
Aired 17 April 1974 • 75 min
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.
4. Christabel Pankhurst
Aired 24 April 1974 • 75 min
Black 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
Aired 1 May 1974 • 75 min
The campaign grows: suffragettes destroy property and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.
6. Sylvia Pankhurst
Aired 8 May 1974 • 75 min
1914: War is declared, and women still do not have the vote.