Shoulder to Shoulder - Season 1

First aired: 4/3/1974 6 episodes

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.

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Episodes

Episode 1

1. The Pankhursts

Aired: 4/3/1974

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

2. Annie Kenney

Aired: 4/10/1974

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

Episode 3

3. Lady Constance Lytton

Aired: 4/17/1974

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

4. Christabel Pankhurst

Aired: 4/24/1974

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

5. Outrage

Aired: 5/1/1974

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

Episode 6

6. Sylvia Pankhurst

Aired: 5/8/1974

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