Shoulder to Shoulder

How women fought for the vote

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.

Genre: Drama,

Actor:

Creator: Midge Mackenzie, Verity Lambert, Georgia Brown,

Country: United Kingdom,

Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: N/A

Duration: 75 minutes

Release: 1974-04-03

Rating: 5

Season 1 - Shoulder to Shoulder
1974-04-03
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.
1974-04-10
1904: Annie Kenney - a mill worker since the age of ten. What has Women's Suffrage to offer her?
1974-04-17
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.
1974-04-24
Black Friday, 18 November 1910. A violent struggle in Parliament Square between suffragettes and police. But why don't the police arrest the suffragettes...?
1974-05-01
The campaign grows: suffragettes destroy property and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.
1974-05-08
1914: War is declared, and women still do not have the vote.