How The Pankhursts Shaped Women's Suffrage | Christabel and Sylvia Pankhursts | Absolute History

For Christabel and Sylvia, their own sisterhood would be strained to the point of breaking for the suffrage movement.
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  • @IckyNeko
    @IckyNeko4 жыл бұрын

    "Our daughters' daughters will adore us, And they'll sing in grateful chorus, 'Well done, Sister Suffragette!' "

  • @hectorsmommy1717
    @hectorsmommy17174 жыл бұрын

    If you can possibly find it on DVD or streaming, the 1974 BBC mini series "Shoulder to Shoulder" is an excellent dramatization of the British Women's suffrage movement. All these years later the forced feeding that was depicted still is seared in my brain.

  • @MechaJutaro

    @MechaJutaro

    3 жыл бұрын

    Who played Sylvia?

  • @hectorsmommy1717

    @hectorsmommy1717

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MechaJutaro According to IMDB it was Angela Down. Fun fact: Christabel Pankhurst was played by a pre-Rocky Horror Patricia Quinn

  • @billhaywood3503

    @billhaywood3503

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MechaJutaro Angela Down

  • @sirasy
    @sirasy2 жыл бұрын

    GREAT WOMEN! In every town there should be at least a statue or a square or a street dedicated to THEM! Thanks to their courage, now, at least in Europe, we have human rights! Thank You for sharing this video.

  • @amberknight8555
    @amberknight85552 жыл бұрын

    What women of our past sacrificed so we could have rights today, and this is how we thank them.

  • @billhaywood3503
    @billhaywood35033 жыл бұрын

    Sylvia was the hero Christobel was cowardly and hid in Paris Sylvia went on hunger strikes and worked for the rights of poor women==Christobel sent men into the inferno of WWI Sylvia was a pacifist

  • @pally1243
    @pally1243 Жыл бұрын

    What about my Great Grandmother Mrs. P.L.Roy (Lolita Roy)?

  • @ansisaro
    @ansisaro4 жыл бұрын

    the men crying in the comments, omg jajajajaa

  • @fangsilver1977

    @fangsilver1977

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ok. Sexist.

  • @mheartshape6817
    @mheartshape68172 жыл бұрын

    Acountry flourish only when women are on the top of the top llist

  • @pvinmen1612
    @pvinmen16122 жыл бұрын

    💋❤👌

  • @keleighmarie8308
    @keleighmarie83084 жыл бұрын

    Can we talk about how pretty they all were?

  • @azaad8344

    @azaad8344

    3 жыл бұрын

    No....talk about their courage!

  • @davidbrown8303
    @davidbrown83034 жыл бұрын

    They would be turning in their grave if they could see Trump taking away women's rights.

  • @fd3069

    @fd3069

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm sorry, I am not American. I am not aware that woman's human rights were being taken away in America? Are they not allowed to vote?

  • @ladyoflakelure4286

    @ladyoflakelure4286

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bro, grow a set and do some research.

  • @anonuser7157

    @anonuser7157

    Жыл бұрын

    WTF

  • @Impailer67
    @Impailer674 жыл бұрын

    Stop women's suffrage it's just cruel,,,,uh oh the wife just arrived,,gotta go

  • @doclime4792

    @doclime4792

    Жыл бұрын

    This is the kind of joke a woman would post pretending to be a man, if I'm wrong you're welcome.

  • @jamestafiltafish5282
    @jamestafiltafish52824 жыл бұрын

    This is when society started going down hill

  • @ansisaro

    @ansisaro

    4 жыл бұрын

    jajajajajajaja ok jAmes

  • @kaylizzie7890

    @kaylizzie7890

    3 жыл бұрын

    How so?

  • @xx-xn7id

    @xx-xn7id

    3 жыл бұрын

    Is your male ego hurt?

  • @fangsilver1977

    @fangsilver1977

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@xx-xn7id Did your female ego get hurt by his comment?

  • @xx-xn7id

    @xx-xn7id

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@fangsilver1977 Oh my, tryna defend his ego? How romantic.

  • @axelhopfinger533
    @axelhopfinger5334 жыл бұрын

    For Western civilization, everything started to go wrong from there and things just keep going downhill...

  • @chronic_payne5669

    @chronic_payne5669

    4 жыл бұрын

    Because women demanded their equal civil rights?

  • @Alliebaba7782

    @Alliebaba7782

    4 жыл бұрын

    Let's see since that time period we've lowered the infant mortality rate, there's the invention of electricity, industrial revolution, technological revolution, quality of life and lifespan has increased...the almost complete eradication of smallpox, syphilis, typhus, tb. Cleaner living conditions.. yep fall of western civilization alright

  • @axelhopfinger533

    @axelhopfinger533

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Alliebaba7782 That is all merely through advancement of Technology. But socially and culturally , the West is in a downward spiral, if not free fall. And it all began when women got the vote!

  • @alxxksa

    @alxxksa

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@axelhopfinger533 Tell that your mother. Tell that your mother that carried you for 9 months and probably is still taking care of you. Tell her how much you wish she didn't have her current rights.

  • @friedrichengels9216

    @friedrichengels9216

    4 жыл бұрын

    Axel Hopfinger ok male 😂😂🤣