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Jon Rosebank, Penelope Middelboe
#36 The Pankhursts didn't want the poor to get the vote - Ep 3 Secret History of the Suffragettes
30 minutes Posted Jan 27, 2021 at 8:13 am.
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The WSPU – the Pankhurst Suffragettes - begin in the Manchester Labour Party in the 1890s and learn their publicity-grabbing tactics from Labour. But these tactics turn out to have the worst possible effect – making women’s votes even less likely than before. They are so bad, in fact, it makes you wonder whether the Suffragette leadership had some other agenda.