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Shoulder to Shoulder

How women fought for the vote

Created by Midge MackenzieSiân PhillipsPatricia Quinn
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3 Apr 1974First aired
1Season

The series

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.

Episodes

Season 1 · 6 episodes · 1974

  1. Episode 13 Apr 19741h 15m

    The Pankhursts

    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. Episode 210 Apr 19741h 15m

    Annie Kenney

    1904: Annie Kenney - a mill worker since the age of ten. What has Women's Suffrage to offer her?

  3. Episode 317 Apr 19741h 15m

    Lady Constance Lytton

    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. Episode 424 Apr 19741h 15m

    Christabel Pankhurst

    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. Episode 51 May 19741h 15m

    Outrage

    The campaign grows: suffragettes destroy property and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.

  6. Episode 68 May 19741h 15m

    Sylvia Pankhurst

    1914: War is declared, and women still do not have the vote.

Cast

Siân Phillips

Siân Phillips

Emmeline Pankhurst
Patricia Quinn

Patricia Quinn

Christabel Pankhurst
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