Shoulder to Shoulder Season 1 Plot
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.
Season 1 Episodes
6 episodes
1
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.
2
Annie Kenney
1904: Annie Kenney - a mill worker since the age of ten. What has Women's Suffrage to offer her?
3
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.
4
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...?
5
Outrage
The campaign grows: suffragettes destroy property and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.
6
Sylvia Pankhurst
1914: War is declared, and women still do not have the vote.