“How women fought for the vote”
Shoulder to Shoulder is a 1974 BBC drama serial created through the collaboration of actress Georgia Brown, filmmaker Midge Mackenzie, and producer Verity Lambert. 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, the six-part series, starring Siân Phillips as Emmeline Pankhurst, is considered a landmark in feminist television drama.
1 season · 6 episodes
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.
S1 E1The Pankhursts
Apr 3, 197475 min
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.
S1 E2Annie Kenney
Apr 10, 197475 min
1904: Annie Kenney - a mill worker since the age of ten. What has Women's Suffrage to offer her?
S1 E3Lady Constance Lytton
Apr 17, 197475 min
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.
S1 E4Christabel Pankhurst
Apr 24, 197475 min
Black Friday, 18 November 1910. A violent struggle in Parliament Square between suffragettes and police. But why don't the police arrest the suffragettes...?
S1 E5Outrage
May 1, 197475 min
The campaign grows: suffragettes destroy property and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.
S1 E6Sylvia Pankhurst
May 8, 197475 min
1914: War is declared, and women still do not have the vote.
Siân Phillips
Emmeline Pankhurst
Patricia Quinn
Christabel Pankhurst
Georgia Brown
Annie Kenney
Angela Down
Sylvia Pankhurst
Sally Miles
Flora Drummond
Sheila Allen
Mrs Pethick-Lawrence
Maureen Pryor
Dr Ethel Smyth
Fulton Mackay
Keir Hardie
Ronald Hines
Mr Pethick-Lawrence
Robert Hardy
Asquith
Michael Gough
Dr Richard Pankhurst
Lans Traverse
Zellie Emerson
