Shoulder to Shoulder

1974
1 Seasons
6 Episodes
5 (1)
Ended

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.

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Seasons

6. Sylvia Pankhurst

May 08, 1974

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

5. Outrage

May 01, 1974

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

4. Christabel Pankhurst

April 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...?

3. Lady Constance Lytton

April 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.

2. Annie Kenney

April 10, 1974

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

1. The Pankhursts

April 03, 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.