Name/TitleVHS: Rise Up, Women!
About this objectTwelve minute video from the British Pathe News Library and the Production Library, National Film Archive (UK), titled 'Rise Up, Women!: The suffragette campaign in London', narrated by Glenda Jackson MP. The video featured in an exhibition titled 'The Purple, White and Green: suffragettes in London 1906-14' shown at the Museum of London from 15th September 1992 to 13th June 1993.
'Rise Up, Women!' comprises 'Milling the Militants', a short. comic film made in 1913, followed by several short news items about suffragette processions and women's war work.
MakerMuseum of London
MakerBritish Pathe News
Date Made1993
Period1900s-1910s
Place MadeEngland, London
Medium and MaterialsInorganic, plastic
MeasurementsH: 221 x W: 140 x D: 30 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsWomen's suffrage
Subject and Association KeywordsSuffragettes
Subject and Association KeywordsPolitical activism
Subject and Association KeywordsFirst World War
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's war work
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette:
A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, which engaged in direct action and civil disobedience. In 1906, a reporter writing in the Daily Mail coined the term suffragette for the WSPU, derived from suffragistα (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeVHS
Object numberGWL-2024-6-18
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved