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Tees and sees apply. This is a History Extra production. You found me in Parliament Square and it's a scene that you probably would

recognize from the evening news. Just over there is where the political correspondence

file their reports on their latest happenings from Westminster and behind me is

Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament but it's also the site of one of the darkest episodes of suffragette history.

On the 18th of November, 1910, a date which became known as Black Friday, 300 suffragettes marched on Parliament.

Arriving here at Parliament Square just after one o'clock, they had an axe to grind.

Earlier that year, a bill had been floated in Parliament, which if passed

would grant some women the right to vote. And this was a bill that would have aimed

to enfranchise around a million women.

It's a bit of a drop in the ocean, but it's nonetheless a step in the right direction.

But just as things were looking promising, Prime Minister Asquith called an election, squashing any chance of the

conciliation bill being passed. And Mrs. Pancras was furious. She said,

right, we are going to take action.

So she led a group of 300 women from Paxton Hall in Westminster to the

Houses of Parliament.

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