About this episode
► In today's episode of History and Hearsay, we are discussing suffragette hunger strikes AND force feeding!
TIME STAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Women’s Suffrage Unions/Groups
2:24 - From Peaceful to Militant
3:10 - Hunger Strikes & Forced Feedings
5:52 - Lady Constance Lytton
10:48 - The Cat & Mouse Act
13:30 - WWI changes minds
18:09 - The 1918 Act - Men couldn’t vote either!
19:44 - The 1923 Act
► THESE VIDEOS ARE FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY, Based on actual events.
►Sources:
https://www.historyextra.com/period/edwardian/cat-mouse-force-feeding-suffragettes-hunger-strike/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4812186/Hunger-striking-suffragettes-pictured-rare-images.html
https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/case-study-the-right-to-vote/the-right-to-vote/birmingham-and-the-equal-franchise/1918-representation-of-the-people-act/
https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/overview/thevote/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_of_the_People_(Equal_Franchise)_Act_1928
https://www.historyextra.com/period/edwardian/what-life-like-women-edwardian-britain/
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-48459860
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-44210012
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