Ruth, Lucy and Anne-Marie talk about their radical ancestors and particular sources of inspiration from the suffragette movement.
Suffragettes
The Suffragette Arboretum, Batheaston
The Blathwayt family created a place of recovery for over 60 women imprisoned for their political activism at their country residence Eagle House, in Batheaston.
Rose Lamartine Yates
Rose Lamartine Yates was an English social campaigner and suffragette. Together with her lawyer husband she worked for female suffrage from 1908 and during the First World War, and was willing to suffer arrest and incarceration for her beliefs.