No Man Shall Protect Us: The Hidden History of the Suffragette Bodyguards

In 1913/14, the most radical women’s rights activists in England formed a secret society to protect their sister suffragettes from assault and arrest. They…

This documentary is by the folk behind the fab Suffrajitsu comic series (mentioned here before) –  and deals with the real-life squad of jujitsu master bodyguard women who have gotten shamefully little attention in most coverage of the UK Suffragette movement.

(seriously, I wanted so bad for them to pop up in that Suffragette movie starring Meryl Streep)