Podcasts Culture Arts & Ideas New Research into the UK Women's Suffrage Movement.

New Research into the UK Women's Suffrage Movement.

Published: March 8, 2018, 10:45 p.m.

How did interior design help gain women the vote? Were arson attacks justified? Who took part in a six-week march? What role did an Indian princess play? \nHelen Pankhurst, Jane Robinson, Fern Ridell, Shahida Rahman and Miranda Garrett discuss the history of women's suffrage with Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough in this centenary year of the Bill which gave some women the right to vote.

Fern Riddell is the author of Death in 10 Minutes - Kitty Marion: Activist, Arsonist, Suffragette\nHelen Pankhurst is the author of Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women\u2019s Rights, Then and Now. \nJane Robinson has written Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote. \nMiranda Garrett is co-editor with Zo\xeb Thomas of Suffrage and the Arts: Visual Culture, Politics and Enterprise