Little People, BIG DREAMS - Emmeline Pankhurst

0:00Hi, this is Lila and Dad. Today I'm going to read another great story in this story. It's good. Little people big dreams, Emily and Pankas. Well remembered, because you haven't heard of this lady before, have you? No. This is a learning book. I love these little people big dreams books, because you get to learn so much about somebody that's a really important person, and this one is especially important. We had a super nice message from Paul who said, Hi, our daughter would love for you to read Emily and Pankas from little people big dreams. Her name is Robyn, and she lives in Somerset. So thank you Robyn for asking for such a brilliant suggestion, and I think I'm going to learn something and especially Lila is going to learn something too. Are you ready to learn? I'm ready to learn.

1:03What shall we read this story? What should we say? What do we say? What do we say? Let's read. Do you know who this is? No. Oh wait. No. No. No. This is Emily and Pankas. Emily was born into a very big family in a nice house in Manchester, England. That sounded weird because you just said Emily was born in a very big family. Too much of a pause. Sorry. Emily was born into a big family in a nice house in Manchester, in England. Wow, there's lots of them in this family. So there she is, and then she got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight brothers and sisters, I think. They could be cousins. They could be, but I think they are. A lot of people used to have a very large family's back in those days. Some people still

2:05did. Who? People just did because it was quite difficult to make sure you had enough food for everybody. So people just used to have lots of children to make sure that their children stayed alive for as long as possible. That just be even harder work. It would. Yes. Why would you have more children to make sure they stay alive? Just have like two or three children. Yeah, two or three is good. I think three is a good number. Or four. And then they could be equal. And they could be equal. Oh, that's a very interesting thing that you said they're equal because that's kind of what this is all about. Equivalent. Equivalent, yes. Making sure people are equivalent. That is going to mean something more as we read. At the time that she grew up, life was hard for many people. It doesn't mean anything more in like the world, in the story it's going to mean more. It will do when we read it. At the time she grew up, life was hard for many people. Her parents

3:09did whatever they could to help. And they often brought young Emily in along. Emily learned to read when she was three. And it became her favorite thing to do. I cannot read another eight. You can read. Well, I can read, but not very well. I think you can read great. And different people read in different ways. Some people can read super fast. Some people can read slow. Some people read in a different way. But you can definitely read miss. I can read, but like not big words. I can't read big words. You've heard me reading stories on here for ages. I always get things muddled. Emily learned to read when she was three. And it became her favorite thing to do. She read the newspaper and book after book, drawn to stories of heroes who fought for others. And she dreamt about who she might become. But Emily didn't have many choices because she was a girl. One night, she heard a father say that

4:19it was too bad that she wasn't a boy. She wouldn't go to university or get a job or even vote like her brothers. This sounds like Greek. It sounds like Greece. Oh, because you've been learning about Greece in school. Well, not anymore. But Greece boys got to go to war and then all of the girls got to do is basically just be your mom and cook stuff. Well, this is in England and that's kind of exactly how it was. Yeah. Oh, you know why we did it. Why did you do it? Greeks did it and you know what the Romans did. What did they do? Did what the Greeks did. Okay. And then you know all we did. Did what the Romans did. Did what the Romans did. Yeah. And then you know what we do now? Nothing like we did before. Well, good because some things that we used to do before are not good. So, Emily wouldn't get to vote like her brothers. I wouldn't get to vote like my brothers.

5:21No, and she didn't understand why. What is voting? Do I you... um what's it called? You select a choice. Wow. For like if it was a prime minister or like a... Even if you put it in school or no, you don't get to vote for the king. Oh, it was in the prime minister. Let's say it was a prime minister and... Or even like a school counsellor. Yeah. You might call it people parliament or I don't know like deputy heads. Wow. Yeah. You get to... And what does the vote mean? What do you get to do? So, you select a choice of there might be two people or three or even multiple or several. And you get to choose which one you think is good. Not because it's your favourite because they're

6:24example like Donald Trump. I don't think he's a good example. I don't think we should talk about that. Oh. Some people get very opinionated but I would agree that yeah that's not a good example for anybody about anything at all whatever. Yeah, that's an amazing explanation though. Super. Yeah, you get to choose for somebody not because you think they're your favourite but because you think they're the best choice. So, Emmeline began to read about women's rights and begged her mother to bring her to a meeting that would mean that she could learn more. And there, Emmeline heard that women in England like in many other countries were treated unfairly and they needed the right to vote in order to change things. Why? We give people life because up until very recently, women weren't given the same choices and rights as men which is awful but Emmeline Pancas was

7:29amazingly important. Men wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for us. That's true, but very true. Emmeline knew what she had to do. As soon as she finished school, she began working for women's rights. One of the leaders of the course was a lawyer named Richard. When she was what? So, when she finished school, she began working for women's rights and she met somebody on a course who was a lawyer named Richard, who also believed that women should be equal to men and they fell in love working side-by-side to help women win the right to vote. Emmeline and Richard married and had a family and for many years, they tried to get voting rights for women but nothing changed and then sadly Richard became sick and he died leaving Emmeline with four children very little money and no rights as a woman.

8:29Four children? Yeah. Emmeline had to work very hard to support her family. She didn't stop supporting women's rights though. As soon as it was her daughters, excuse me, soon it was her daughters who begged Emmeline to take them to meetings and they asked why women hadn't... I muddled this up. See, I told you I'd get all muddled sometimes with my words too. Soon it was her daughters who begged Emmeline to take them to meetings and they asked why women had been following unfair rules for so long. This gave Emmeline an idea. She and her daughters became the leaders of a new group of women, a group that would stop following the rules and would fight for their rights and people called them the suffragettes. They started by speaking out on street corners and at fairs and they stood up to protest at big meetings and some people laughed at them but others began to listen what she's doing on the

9:34side of the road on the street here. I think she's standing on a post box. She's standing on a box saying we should be treated the same. Is she? And then on... Does it say that? Oh it doesn't say that but I think that's much she might be saying. What do you think she could be saying? Come with us, save the women's rights. Yeah, definitely. I think that's what she was saying. Even though that doesn't rhyme. I tried to make it rhyme. Oh wow, now they're outside booking in palace. Wait, are they getting arrested? Yes, they are. The government tried to stop them so they fought harder. They marched in the streets, they broke windows. They started fires and they chained themselves to railings. Who did? The suffragettes. Why did they stop fires? To get attention and to be listened to and demand that changes were making because sometimes not all the things that should be happening happen.

10:36So you have to make it happen. Even though some were hurt, others were arrested, more and more women then joined Emily's group and they were braver than anyone had imagined. Yeah, it's cool today. We were making sentences with even though and all the and what did this one start with? Even though some were hurt, others got arrested, more and more women joined the group. Do you want to see if we can change that with different words? What could you say instead of even though? No, so start with even though and then change the other bit. How do you mean? So like even though, but change it to our own words. What just make a completely different sentence? No, start with even though. Even though? Yeah, and then kind of do that but it has to be linked to that. Even though some were hurt, even though windows were broken. Oh, I see what you mean.

11:38Roads were burnt. Roads were burnt. Things were disrupted, disrupted. People got injured. People were inconvenienced and gentlemen were very peeved. Peeved means like they were annoyed. Is that a good change of words? Yeah, I like that. That was a good thing to do. In between spending many days in prison, Emily travelled to the United States and spoke big theaters. People gathered by the thousands to hear. She's saying women are human beings. Or if she was the BFG, women is human beings. Remember from the BFG? I love the Winnie says beans. She told them that she would keep fighting until every woman was free to do the same things as men.

12:44And then a great war broke out and so lots of men went off to fight. Emily encouraged the suffragettes to take over jobs that only men had done before. So what kind of jobs were they be? Like all the jobs? Yeah. It's similar to the Greek society that you mentioned. Men had to go and fight and the girls were left to pick everything out. Sleep and take care of children. Yeah, but the women were stronger than anyone had believed. So here they are in the hospital. They're in the police force now because all the men are gone. After the war, Emily's dream came true. Women would finally get the right to vote. What? You did all of this just to vote? Yeah, but that means that you can do, that you can have a choice and you can decide and you can make a change. And it means that you're

13:48treated the same as everybody else. And by fighting for others, Emily had done what no one thought in any little girl could do. She had become a hero. And then it's got a bit the end where it tells you a bit more about her. So Emily and Pancas was born in 1858. That's a long time ago. And she died in 1928. There she is. Look. There's a picture of her. She was quite old. But also there's a picture of her getting arrested in 1900. Emily Pancas was one of the world's most influential activists who helped British women win the right to vote. Born in Manchester in England, Emily was inspired at a young age by a parent's activism and went to her first meeting about women's rights or suffrage with her mother at the age of 14. She soon began working for suffrage, eventually marrying one of its leaders,

14:54Richard Pancasd. When Richard died unexpectedly, Emily raised their four children and worked whilst continuing to fight for suffrage. Emily and her daughters started a new women's activist group that encouraged women to demand their rights with deeds and not words. Protesting in ways that only men had done before. They were often heard or arrested, but they kept fighting, gaining support worldwide and changing the way that people thought about women. During World War I, Emily's suffrage army stopped protesting and took jobs that the men had left behind, which helped the country and showed how capable women were. The British government gave all women the right to vote shortly after Emily had died, and many other countries followed suit. Waiting until she's died, yes, I agree. Emily's terrorism and leadership changed the minds of an entire nation and

15:59changed the lives of women forever. The word nation? Did you think that was an important thing to learn? Yes. I did too. I do remember reading and learning about her at school, but it's been quite a while since I was at school, so that was good to learn about. And just quite a while. Yes, quite a while, not the most amount of time, but quite a while. But it's also very important to learn about people that change things in the past to make sure that you have a better future, I think. Don't you? Yeah. So, what do we say to Robin for asking for little people to big dreams, Emily and Pankhurst? Thank you. I think we should read more of these because you always get to learn loads and stuff about people. We did a Taylor Swift one, didn't we? We did. We did a Taylor Swift one. We should definitely do some more. What do we say to anyone who might have listened? Thanks for listening. Bye.