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Radio 3,2 mins

Suffragettes on roller skates

Essential Classics

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The ‘Votes for Women’ movement was incredibly creative in the strategies it employed to get its message through to those in power. But where did roller skating come into the equation? Dr Naomi Paxton has the answer. 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 Valse carnavalesque for two pianos, Op.73 performed by Bengt Forsberg and Peter Jablonski. The image is composite of images from the LSE Library and the Internet Archive Book Images collection.

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