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🗓️ 19 June 2024
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0:00.0 | Find out more about the dramatic story of the suffragette campaign with our new podcast series deeds not words |
0:06.3 | Episodes release weekly on the history extra feed or subscribe to history extra plus on Apple to access all episodes ad free now. |
0:14.0 | This is a History Extra production. So as you can see, the sun's streaming in, it's a beautiful day. It's a lovely feeling what you get when you're in here. |
0:34.0 | Always makes my skin gone edge that this room was probably the place where this life |
0:39.8 | changing movement started. It feels very tranquil in here. It does feel very tranquil in here and |
0:45.3 | actually I think it would have been just the ideal place for plotting and planning and |
0:49.3 | having ideas. Yeah a very peaceful setting for the beginning of quite a radical movement. |
0:55.6 | Absolutely. |
0:57.6 | Welcome to episode two of Deeds Not Words from History Extra. |
1:07.0 | Today we're returning to the very beginning of the suffragette movement to meet the family at its very heart. I'm Ellicordon and you've just found me in a |
1:16.7 | sun-drenched and very historically significant sitting room in Manchester. A Victorian relic now nestled among a looming |
1:25.3 | modern hospital complex. This was once the home of the Pankhurst family and is now |
1:31.0 | the Pankhurst Centre and I was there to chat to Heritage Manager Emma McBeth. |
1:37.0 | So we are currently in the parlour at 62 Nelson Street which was the home of the Pankhurst family between about 1898 to |
1:45.6 | 1997 and it's where the very first meeting of the women's social and political union started. |
1:51.3 | The WSPU was the organization that would later become infamous under another |
1:56.4 | name, the suffragettes. |
1:59.4 | So we're talking 1903, just the 10th of October, the day before Emily in Pankhurst has sent a |
2:04.6 | missive out to some friends to say women we must do this work ourselves so come |
2:09.2 | around tomorrow and we'll get it started essentially I'm paraphrasing. |
2:14.0 | Then basically the next day we don't know exactly the time but the next day there is a meeting |
2:19.0 | and we think it's in this room the parlour because this is the space where Emmeline did her work. It's got three big gothic |
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