Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley

2018 will mark 100 years since women over the age of 30, who owned property, were first allowed to vote in the UK.

Today in Britain this feels like a basic human right, but as Lucy Worsley will reveal in this 90-minute special for BBC One, the battle that women had to wage for this right was complex, hard fought, and by no means certain of success.

The struggle was also about much more than just the Pankhurst Family and Emily Wilding Davison’s fateful collision with the King’s horse. In this film, Lucy is at the heart of the drama, alongside a group of less well-known, but equally astonishing, young working class Suffragettes who decided to go against every rule and expectation that Edwardian society had about them - women like Annie Kenney and Mary Leigh.

Lucy will reveal what it was like for them being tracked by a special police unit, and explore the horrific prison conditions that these women experienced - as well as the dangerous and increasingly violent means to which they resorted to in their fight to gain equality at the ballot box.

Pictured: Lucy Worsley reading Votes For Women

Publicity contact: KD