Hyde Park

This guide to Hyde Park returns to 21 June 1908, when tens of thousands of women converged on this lawn from seven different marches, organized by Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union to demand the vote. You'll hear about the banners they carried, the twenty platforms built for eighty speakers, and why they chose a Sunday for their protest. It's a story of how an ordinary royal park became the stage for a defining moment in the fight for the vote.