In History: Suffragettes speak about direct action and their brutal treatment

In History: Suffragettes speak about direct action and their brutal treatment

9 months, 2 weeks ago

In History: Suffragettes speak about direct action and their brutal treatment

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In History: Suffragettes speak about direct action and their brutal treatment Getty Images "The object was to create an absolutely impossible condition of affairs in the country." In exclusive archive BBC interviews, two activists look back at their turbulent time fighting for women's rights – from window-smashing and arson to hunger strikes and force feeding. I don't like talking about these things… I've never told people – Lilian Lenton In prison she, along with many of her fellow protesters, embarked on a hunger strike. Its founder Emmeline Pankhurst, who had been a member of a Manchester "suffragist" group, had decided it was time for direct action by working-class women in order to secure the vote.

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