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Deeds not words | 1. Battlelines are drawn

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In the opening episode of our new series on the suffragettes, Ellie Cawthorne charts how calls of “votes for women” reached boiling point in Edwardian Britain. Speaking to expert historians, she uncovers how a dynamic new movement was formed to campaign for women’s suffrage using “deeds not words”, and how it would go on to become locked in a bitter war of attrition with the British establishment. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is a history extra production. I'm in London's Hyde Park.

0:44.5

There's dogs running around, catching frisbees, runners in every direction.

0:48.6

But today, we're hunting down the location of a so-called suffragette monster meeting.

0:54.8

And it's the 21st of June, 1908, on a really hot summer's day.

0:59.2

It was a beautiful day. It was an absolutely glorious sunny day.

1:03.9

But this wasn't your average sunny Sunday in the park. This was Women's Sunday,

1:08.3

in which women were coming together to take over London.

1:12.4

Why? To demand their rights to vote.

1:16.3

Thousands of suffragettes had descended on the capital from across the country to take part.

1:21.9

Seven great processions were converging on a hired park from the main railway station.

1:27.1

Balance of filling the air, music.

1:29.5

Wearing a sub-project colour ski badges and brooches and perhaps a sash

1:34.1

or perhaps just wearing purple, white and green flowers.

1:37.3

There are lots of banners on display, calling for votes for women

1:40.0

and remembering famous women from the past.

1:43.0

Shouts, joy, campaigning, people objecting to the campaign.

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