Suffrage 100 Rise Up Women: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

After 50 years of campaigning some British women were finally granted the vote in the UK and more history was made when Lady Nancy Astor became the first female MP in the House of Commons in 1919. A century on, listen to historian Diane Atkinson reflect on the daring, often violent struggle women undertook to break into an exclusively male political system. Find out more here.