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Forget immersive theatre - the suffragettes were light years ahead with their immersive propaganda. Visitors to the 1909 Women’s Exhibition in Knightsbridge were invited to step inside a prison cell, as Dr Naomi Paxton explains. For more fascinating slices of cultural history, listen to Essential Classics' Time Traveller feature every weekday morning after 10. The music in this clip is Cecile Chaminade's ‘Solitude’, from ‘Poemes provencales’ performed by Peter Jacobs. The image is a composite including an image of Christabel Pankhurst from the LSE Library.