Suffragettes - 2018 - 7/10

Historian Lucy Worsley follows the path from suffragist to suffragette to modern “equality.”
A fifty year trail of escalating confrontation, imprisonment, torture, terrorism.
The media of the day, newspapers, is utilized by both camps, government sycophants and rowdy womenfolk.

Peaceful protest, campaigning, petition and public sympathy go for naught.
And yet, when blood is the argument, politicians notice. Ever was it so.
Worsley’s mannerisms and make-up are toned down in this.
Actors voice diary entries and speeches in the increasingly deadly struggle.
Modern protesters could learn a thing or two from an earlier version of the gentle sex.