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100 years on, Woman’s Hour takes a look at the year 1913 and what it meant to the suffrage movement both in the UK and abroad. Jenni Murray is joined by a panel of experts, as they discuss why the year before World War broke out was a revolutionary one for the women’s movement.Ìý

The Panel:

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Dr Sonja Tiernan, Dept of History and Politics at Liverpool Hope University

Prof Krista Cowman, Professor of History at Lincoln University

Dr Diane Atkinson, Suffragette Historian and Biographer

Dr Claire Eustance, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of GreenwichÌýÌýÌý

Elizabeth Crawford, Suffrage Historian

Katy Archer, Director of People’s History Museum

Emmeline Pankhurst was in and out of prison, the Cat and Mouse Act was passed by Parliament, Irish Home Rule was being debated in the House of Commons, a huge suffragette rally was organised in Hyde Park in London, and World War I loomed on the horizon. The panel discuss whether the British nation was ‘under siege’ in 1913, and to what extent this affected and shaped the suffrage movement.

Emily Wilding Davison is the most famous suffragette to die after the famous incident at the Epsom Derby. But who were the other suffragettes who died for the cause, and why are they not remembered?

The panel discusses how the suffragettes were PR pioneers, and whether they were indeed the first movement to really understand the power of mass marketing.

Whilst many British women won the right to vote in 1918 (though not all until 1928), other women around the world were in wildly different stages of their fight. We take a closer look at other countries and see at what point their journey was on, marching towards suffrage around the globe.

The panel reflects on what they would fight for now, as suffragettes in a modern world.