Episode 2: Women and suffragettes
In this episode, detective Jackie heads into the streets of Islington to uncover the story of women’s emancipation told through the people and places in the borough. With the help of the Islington Guides, her travels take her from a familiar local pub to the site of a notorious prison as she hears about amazing women from Shakespearean times to the modern era. Her journey ends with the explosive events around the women’s suffragette movement. The evidence is everywhere, if you know where to look.
Stops on the trail include:
Dame Alice Owen pub, St John Street: named after a philanthropist who pushed the boundaries of convention to leave a remarkable legacy which continues almost 500 years since her birth.
Statue of Mary Wollstonecraft, Newington Green: Controversy has longs surrounded the life and works of radical thinker and mother of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft. It is natural therefore that her statue is similarly divisive. What makes it quite so unusual?
Site of Holloway prison: Hundreds of suffragettes were incarcerated here during the fight for women’s emancipation. We hear about Islington women who were at the forefront of the campaign and about Constance Markievicz the first woman elected to Parliament.
Site of Lyons Tea House, the Angel: Situated in one of the early 20th century buildings at the Angel, the Lyons tea shop offered liberation for women in all sorts of ways, from work to social gatherings and one unexpected indispensable facility...
Islington guides, in order of appearance: Jane Parker · Alan Travis · Johannah Barrett · Oonagh Gay
Produced, mixed and scripted by: Jackie Imas and Hannah Grieve
Presented by: Islington Guided Walks and City St George's, University of London
To book a walk or find out more, visit Islington Guided Walks
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