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Episode Guide
Episode 3
Series: Suffragettes Forever! The Story of Women and Power
Series Progress: Episode 3 of 3100% Completed
Synopsis
In the final episode, Vickery explores how the Edwardian suffragette movement became a quasi-terrorist organisation enacting a violent campaign - best understood as part of a war still going on today. Vickery brings to life the enemies of female suffrage too, from the golfing prime minister Herbert Asquith, who had nightmares of being stripped naked by angry suffragettes, to the furious anti-suffrage societies and their mass meetings in the Royal Albert Hall. But in reaction to political skulduggery to stop women getting the vote, the suffragettes only intensified their campaign, eventually leading to a political backroom deal that allowed some women the vote. Vickery examines the abusive treatment of the first female MP Lady Astor and the subsequent misogynistic backlash of the 1920s, before looking ahead 50 years to Margaret Thatcher. Was her election a sign of a dream fulfilled, or is this a fight that is still going on today?, The finale recalls how the Edwardian suffragette movement became a quasi-terrorist organization.
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