Women’s Suffrage

Emmeline Pankhurst was one of the founders of the British suffragette movement. Mrs Pankhurst was associated with the struggle for the enfranchisement of women in the period immediately preceding World War I.

First in the series of mini-documentaries on the women and labor leaders in the “We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants” videos.

Silent footage from 1913 of the Suffragette Emily Davidson throwing herself under the Kings horse at the Epsom Derby, England.