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Emily Wilding Davison: A Life in Archives

Emily Wilding Davison sometimes worked at the WSPU offices and was a militant suffragette. In 1913 Davison threw herself in front of the Kings Horse at the Epsom Derby. She was clutching a WSPU flag and it is still not known whether she intended to die for the cause of Votes for Women, or whether it was an accident. The WSPU organised a funeral procession commemorating Davison as a martyr for the cause, though the leadership of the organisation was not aware of her intended actions. Footage of the moment Davison ran onto the racetrack at Epsom in June 1913 is available on the BFI channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um9GV... This video draws on the Suffrage Oral histories archive, available here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/collect... Cicely Hale, who worked with Davison, Hale recalls what Davison was like as a person and describes her as a 'fanatic', commenting that no one really knew what she would do next.    • Cicely Hale on Emily Wilding Davison   Grace Roe describes the difficulties in organising Davison’s funeral and how she staged it:    • Grace Roe on Organising Emily Wilding Davi...   Beatrice Ricardo speaks about the way the WSPU turned Emily Wilding Davison’s funeral into positive advertising for the votes for women cause but she shares the opinion of her sister, Cicely Hale, that Davison was a ‘fanatic’:    • Beatrice Ricardo on Emily Wilding Davison ...