TowerToo - August 2013 Biteback Publishing

The Suffragette Derby Michael Tanner

The Suffragette Derby
Michael Tanner


Hardback | Aug 2013 | The Robson Press | 9781849545181 | 320pp | 235x191mm | GEN | AUD$39.99, NZD$47.99

On Wednesday 4 June 1913, fledgling newsreel cameras captured just over two-and-a-half minutes of British social and sporting history when Emily Davison, a militant activist for women's suffrage, stepped out in front of Anmer, the King's horse, sustaining injuries from which she would die four days later. The horse's jockey, Herbert Jones, would famously be "haunted by that poor woman's face" and later took his own life.