The Suffragettes 

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So proud that New Zealand was the first country for votes for women. We may be a small country but have a big heart

This has over 100k vies from being used in schools 100%

International Women's Day today 8 March 2022 My thoughts, gratitutide and admiration go to all those incredibly fierce and brave Women who fought, went through torture and died for the Liberation of Women. Thank you to all of you!

some are here for school, which is amazing. sadly, the country I'm from in mid europe, not once in any school or study place the word feminism or suffragette was used, ever, not once came such a word out of any teachers mouth. an absolute atrocity! what kind of school system is that...

Thanks for posting this docu. We should never forget our history

i love the action of the suffragettes and how hard working they were. i would be a suffragette if i could but women can vote. Saudi Arabia women still can not vote and it has been nearly a hundred years. come on women we can do it! fight! i look up to you Emmeline Pankhurst! thank you

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Excellent documentary ! Pity more people don't vote instead of being apathetic - need to see what women went through to gain the vote

1.14 I mean a bit off topic but look at that wonderful British weather 😂

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Thank you once again Tony . Much appreciated . It is amazing really that in 1902 Australia was the 1st Country that allowed Women to vote and also at a federal level. Considering that in 1901 Australia had just celebrated Confederation.

Shouldn't be forgotten that they were only asking for well to do women get the vote. Pankhurst and her class. The working class women of the campaign were supporting that unselfishly.

I would love to own an original votes for women pin from that era . Beautifully made documentary. It was suffragette movement that got me interested in history when I was little .

Happy to see this-I feel that those who support womans rights will remember what many who pushed them by, some strongly than others and still some require rights in countries-this can be looked at as a stage in womans rights,thanks❤👌

I never actually learnt about any of this at school, I switched school at the wrong time and completely missed it, so films like this I find really helpful, Thank you Alan. If anyone can suggest any good websites to check out in relation to the Suffragette movement I would be really grateful if you could post them below for me

awesome research. thanks

very touching documentry, after watching the documentry "Scandalous women of 19th century" very sensitive. thanx for uploading

thank you my son watched this and learned alot

Learnt about the suffragettes at school...force feeding was shown in a video a lot of people gagged It was also done through the nose as it was considered too easy to bite and also the gag reflex I saw the notes one person described saying they felt "great pain in the throat and breast" There was a risk of the tube going to the lungs as well One highborn wasn't force fed because she had a heart condition she later disguised herself as working class was arrested again and force fed

Amazing women,defining times. We owe them a debt of gratitude.

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thank you so much, Dr Brown, for uploading this video. it helped me greatly

Thank you very much for your documentary on Sophia Duleep Singh. Brilliant! Never knew she existed but I do now & will pass it on especially to friends with young children or who have contact with children & young people.

Amazing what bravery those women showed back then good for them

here from a history lesson :)

This is amazing, thank you.

WOW! Now I understand Kellie-Jay Keen a little bit more. She is resurecting the suffragette flag and entire campaign as women are loosing our fundamental rights today. These women paid too high of a price for our rights, they fought very hard and made profound sacrifices for us, we will not just hand over our rights to single sex spaces and sports. May the suffragettes and suffragists rest peacefully in power.

my great great grandad was Thorley Smith - Wigans Labour mp in the time of the suffragettes and he was the first mp to agree with the movement :)

God Bless these women 🙏

9:36 why are there no board games like this nowadays? this is epic, I wanna play. can somebody pls produce it again? that'd be the coolest, most unboring board game ever!

Hello Mr Alan Brown What was the short term significance of the suffragette campaign in bringing about change to the role and status of women in the years 1903-1923. Do you think they played a dramatic role I think the militancy action was the main reason because it attracted a lot of media attention. I dont really see how World war one was the main reason with out their tactics they would have never been able to be noticed in the first place.

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What a struggle to fight for

Never mentioned that the Suffragette movement basically came from the anarchist movement and the violent protest was a variation of anarchist 'propaganda of the deed'. Emma Goldman rules!

It is interesting to compare this campaign with those of the early Labour movement which was happening around the same time. The middleclass suffragists were outraged at their treatment by the police and prisons - rough handling by the police and forced feeding of hunger strikers in prison. Well what happened to the working class labour movement? Their protests were met with armed soldiers and police (e.g. the South Wales steel strikes) and about 10 male strikers were killed. Also males who breached prison discipline (e.g. staging a hunger strike) could expect a flogging. Odd how the suffragettes never demanded equality in these matters!

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These are the idols young girls should have. The woman that sadly had to turn a certain way in order to make these men listen by doing actions that men would understand and listen too. Bless them all ! They faught so hard for us

wow very nice

Tony, we love you, miss you and thank you.

fun fact : you read the comment (now wheres my like)

Is it possible to have the tapescript of this video? thank you!

Don’t the colours also symbolise Give Women The Vote (green, white, violet)?

could someone give me the source, year and name of the program leader? I am writing a rapport on the womens right.

shut the front door

Tony Benn 😍😍

A brilliant documentary - thank you!

11 May 2014. Then the very next year the doors were opened to a flood of those who would take us back to the 7th century for women.

The real feminism.

I'm glad we chose the second woman for President in just 16 years of indepedence in my country

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Hello sir, I was wondering if you could provide more information on the source of this video. I have shown it to my 12th Grade world history class, and we were trying to examine this piece for bias, historical perspective, and message. My students would like to know more about where and when this documentary was produced. I understand from the watermark it was a BBC production, but I can;t seem to locate any more information on this particular documentary. Thanks in advance, James Chagnon History/English instructor Springfield Collegiate Institute Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada

That is why ever woman should vote after what their sister fought and died for. Girl power

Kindness must have the luxury of civilization. But kindness had to wait for the establishment of civilization through violence. The domain of men and the domain of women. Two domains by way of nature fusing together with two domains by process of mind. It took violence to establish leisure and it took leisure to provide the luxury of thought.

you know that women learned judo to protect themseleves from the police

anyone here beacuse of their English teacher

This really helped me thank you

sweet good luck

Keep up the great work

Can this be trusted? How about other BBC docs?

why don't people remember the suffragists they where a much bigger organisation and did much more for women's rights

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What year was this made?

Where were these women when racism was attacking black women and their children ?

Are we going to leave it to Sadiq Khan ???????????

Everyone should vote!

Hi Alan, i'm just wondering where you got this documentary from? What tv channel it was on, just for referencing on one of my university essays

Year 8 online school

...you must dig down deep though all the lies......to find the truth....

I wish they’d show this to kids at school instead of the gender nonsense

Hi

They were so brave.

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I REALLY get annoyed with people, and it's usually women, telling me I must vote. I will vote, if I choose to. It's no one else's business whether I do,or not.

LONG LIVE EQUALITY GLOBALLY.

Women don't have full equality? We do in the U.S. what differs in Britain?

We females owe a lot to them my great and great great grandmothers were all for womens rights

Well what do you know they held their meeting on 10th of October 1903.....

*Uhm, i was sent here by my history teacher but this is long* *Ive watched longer but im not very interested*

Why so biased... Also, the comment at the end saying women still don't have equal rights is a load of rubbish, if anything they are benefited by universities and jobs because of their gender, this needs to be stopped and because people don't want to be sexist they pick the women over the men despite the fact that the men may be better for the job.

0:16 -- Roy Hattersley: "The suffragettes are the only protest movement in the history of Great Britain that have actually succeeded by violence." You have got to be kidding me. Does the word 'oversimplification" mean anything to you? The struggle for female suffrage was an incredibly complicated movement, playing itself out all over England from about 1860 to 1918. The role which violence played (during a brief period from 1908-1914), and what it achieved, is not at all obvious. You can make a much more convincing argument that the massive violence and slaughter of World War I, women's contribution to the war effort, and the parliamentary finesse of the NUWSS, was far more effective in getting women the vote, than any of the amateur violence practiced by the WSPU. it can be argued, in addition, that the violence of the WSPU did women's suffrage more harm than good.

white for purity ? wtf

Sheila Hancock: awful.

middle class reactionaries