History, Winning the Vote and was it worth it?

For hundreds of years in Britain men and women fought for the right to vote. But today many people are disillusioned with politics while others look for new beginnings. This talk tells the story of how people – from the Levellers of the Civil War to the Chartists of the nineteenth century and the Suffragettes of the twentieth century, all fought for the right to vote to challenge those with wealth and power. But it also asks what would they think about politics in Britain today?