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niyad

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Wed Jul 11, 2018, 12:49 PM Jul 2018

Emily Wilding Davison and the Suffragette banner




Museum of London
Published on May 31, 2013
On the 4th June 1913, the Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was fatally struck down by a horse at the Epsom Derby. In this video Beverly Cook, Curator of Social & Working History looks at the lives of some of the women who embroidered their names on the hunger-strikers banner, currently on display at the Museum of London.
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