The March of the Women

A BBC drama from 1974 highlights the tensions in writing feminist history.

June Purvis | Published in 30 Oct 2014

'Shoulder to Shoulder': Siân Phillips plays Emmeline Pankhurst in the BBC dramaIt is 40 years since Shoulder to Shoulder, a six-part BBC TV drama series about the suffragettes of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), was first screened.

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