#34 Getting the vote in 1918 - the secret strategy - Ep 1 The Secret History of the Suffragettes

Mrs Pankhurst claims she won women the vote through ‘marvellous leadership.’ An all-male conference of MPs counters that it gifted women the vote. We reveal that neither is true. The door to women’s suffrage is finally opened in January 1917 through brilliant negotiations behind the scenes by Millicent Fawcett, the president of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage, her female colleagues and the enlightened MPs who work with her. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.