Joan Bakewell chairs a discussion between Lady Asquith and Lady Stocks on the struggle to obtain female enfranchisement at the start of the 20th Century. (1968)
Joan Bakewell chairs a discussion between Lady Asquith and Lady Stocks on the struggle to obtain female enfranchisement at the start of the 20th Century.
Lady Asquith and Lady Stocks were invited to view Votes for Women, a documentary about the story of the suffragettes which included eyewitness reports from people involved in the movement. Lady Asquith and Lady Stocks are critical of the suffragettes, believing they became too militant, preferring instead the non-violent constitutional means of the suffragists. Lady Asquith is especially disapproving, since her father, Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, was targeted by the suffragettes. Despite this, Lady Stocks speaks highly of Emmeline Pankhurst and was one of the few to have heard her speak. (1968)
