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Emily Wilding Davison and the Suffragette banner
Museum of London
Published on May 31, 2013
On the 4th June 1913, the Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was fatally struck down by a horse at the Epsom Derby. In this video Beverly Cook, Curator of Social & Working History looks at the lives of some of the women who embroidered their names on the hunger-strikers banner, currently on display at the Museum of London.
