Shoulder to Shoulder (1974)
"How women fought for the vote"
Synopsis
Shoulder to Shoulder is a 1974 BBC drama serial created through the collaboration of actress Georgia Brown, filmmaker Midge Mackenzie, and producer Verity Lambert. A dramatisation of the history of the women's suffrage movement in Britain, focusing on the Pankhurst family and their fight for women's right to vote, the six-part series, starring Siân Phillips as Emmeline Pankhurst, is considered a landmark in feminist television drama.
Network
BBC Two
Episodes
The Pankhursts
1898: Dr and Mrs Pankhurst and their four children are living comfortably in Manchester. However, in that year an event occurs which will radically change all their lives.
Annie Kenney
1904: Annie Kenney - a mill worker since the age of ten. What has Women's Suffrage to offer her?
Lady Constance Lytton
1908: Constance Lytton : daughter of the Viceroy of India, she came from one of the leading families in the land. Almost any door was open for her.
Christabel Pankhurst
Black Friday, 18 November 1910. A violent struggle in Parliament Square between suffragettes and police. But why don't the police arrest the suffragettes...?
Outrage
The campaign grows: suffragettes destroy property and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.
Sylvia Pankhurst
1914: War is declared, and women still do not have the vote.
Cast
Details
Original Title
Shoulder to Shoulder
Status
Ended
Seasons
1
Episodes
6
Production
BBC
