After years of campaigning for votes for women, the Suffragettes emerge at the turn of the 20th Century. Their motto, ‘Deeds Not Words’, heralds the start of more radical actions, including fire bombing, civil disobedience and hunger strikes. Emily Davison is a passionate rebel, but she pushes at the limits of what her allies find acceptable. History remembers Emily for her final act, but have we got everything about the story right?
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Further Reading
This script relied on books including Lucy Fisher’s Emily Wilding Davison: The Martyr Suffragette, Maureen Howes’ Emily Wilding Davison: A Suffragette’s Family Album, Antonia Raeburn’s The Militant Suffragettes, and Michael Tanner’s The Suffragette Derby.
The Radical Flank: Curse or Blessing of a Social Movement? was published in the journal of Global Environmental Psychology in 2024.
For more on Just Stop Oil’s protest at Silverstone, see coverage in the BBC and Northampton Chronicle & Echo and Just Stop Oil’s own YouTube channel.
