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Educating Britain Suffragettes on the BBC:  Omission/filtering/sanitisation: It is scary to know that prominent Suffragettes were socialists. The BBC is celebrating 100 years since women over 30 and "who met minimum property qualifications" won the right to vote in Britain. I have gone through these three pieces and I have noticed deliberate ommision of what is an integral part of some prominent Suffragettes and the Suffragettes movement: socialism, communism, the Independent Labour Party.   Sylvia Pankhurst  is described as "a  vocal pacifist, anti-fascist and anti-colonialist activist."   In   this introduction (click "more"), and  this one ( recommended to teachers!) claims to be tracing "the history of women's movement in Britain" and "how women won the right to vote. Now, compare the above with Emily Davison   "was a  staunch feminist and passionate Christian , and considered that  socialism  was a moral and pol