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Let us know what you think. The March of the Women. They called this song a hymn, a call to battle.

They called this song a hymn, A Call to Battle.

Day Methel Smyth composed it in 1910,

and Cecily Hamilton wrote the lyrics.

Both women were part of Britain's women's suffrage movement, and this song became the anthem.

In the early 20th century, women across the United Kingdom went to battle to fight for their right to vote and

some even gave their lives.

Emily Wilding Davison was fatally injured during the famous Derby horse race.

Some say she was trying to attach a flag to the King's horse

to highlight the women's cause.

And then, in 1918, the battle was won. Some, although not all British women got their right to vote.

To mark their campaign and others by women the world over in the past century I've been speaking

with some remarkable women whose own stories made history.

I'm Lee's Doucette and in the next five weeks on the BBC World Service you'll hear stories from Iceland, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Liberia.

But we start in Belfast, in Northern Ireland to meet Monica

MacWilliams. Monica was one of the few women at the table

with many men during the negotiations which led to the Good Friday

Agreement of 1998.

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