You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else. In fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under.”Emmeline Pankhurst, November 1913
On the anniversary of her birth on 15 July 1858, relive the pandemonium of pioneer suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst’s arrest at Buckingham Palace in 1914. Cinema was born just as the campaign for women’s votes was gathering momentum and early newsreels such as this documented the struggle. Pankhurst was determined to petition the King directly, but only got as far as the palace gates before the police apprehended her.
