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Known as \u201cMrs Pankhurst\u2019s bodyguard\u201d, Kitty Marshall was a cricket-ball-wielding, jujitsu-trained suffragette ready to go fist-to-fist with the police in her fight for votes for women. Historian and biographer Emelyne Godfrey tells Ellie Cawthorne more about Kitty\u2019s unorthodox life, and the tense game of cat-and-mouse that suffragettes were locked in with Met police.\n\n(Ad) Emelyne Godfrey is the author of Mrs Pankhurst\u2019s Bodyguard: On the Trail of \u2018Kitty\u2019 Marshall and the Met Police \u2018Cats\u2019 (History Press, 2023). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mrs-Pankhursts-Bodyguard-Marshall-Police/dp/1803991755/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2MBTS4LY5IQJX&keywords=mrs+pankhurst%27s+bodyguard&qid=1689935008&sprefix=mrs+pank%2Caps%2C85&sr=8-1&tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty\n\nThe HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices