Shoulder to Shoulder

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.

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

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.

Black Friday, 18 November 1910. A violent struggle in Parliament Square between suffragettes and police. But why don't the police arrest the suffragettes...?

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

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