This newsreel shows a suffragette march in London. This clip (especially 04:13 - 04:55) shows that Nationalist and Liberals were not the only opponents Unionists and Conservatives faced. Both Andrew Bonar Law (leader of the Conservative opposition) and Sir Edward Carson (leader of the Irish Unionists) opposed votes for women and this was the reason why suffragettes called for their arrest. However, neither Herbert Asquith (the Liberal Prime Minister) nor John Redmond (leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party) would come out in favour of votes for women. It was not until November 1918 that women were given the vote.

Notice the three men on pavement who face the camera and then repeatedly walk into shot three times between 04.15 and 4.51 mins. Bonar Law was the British Conservative Party leader at this time and later Prime Minister. Edward Carson was leader of the Ulster Unionists.

• The History Learning Site
• The Lewiston Daily Sun- Nov 27, 1913
• Libraries NI- Ireland's Suffragettes: The Women Who Fought for the Vote
• Century Ireland 1913-1923 - Sheehy-Skeffington Imprisioned