Emily Davison: Suffragette Killed by King's Horse at Derby (1913) | British Pathé
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- Prior to the First World War, women's rights were a regular item of Pathé newsreels. One great landmark in the history of Pathé scoops was one of their cameras capturing the extreme sacrifice by the suffragette Emily Davison. In the blink of an eye, Davison runs from the crowds and throws herself under the King's horse. Crowds of people run on to the track to try and help both the fallen rider and Davison. Davison died several days later in hospital.
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5:58 your welcome
So much ignorance on display in these comments.
It's remarkable that 100 years ago, someone in the crowd had a camera phone and was able to stick this footage up on CZcams. Isn' it also strange how people in those days walked so much faster - the pace of life these days is so much slower.
Bro no they didnt stick this up on youtube,youtube didnt even exist back then and the video record vootage is just speed up due to the old cameras
It’s sped up how don’t u understand that
Finally I found him. I found the biggest idiot on Earth.
Greetings. I am 10 years old from the future
Lol
Also to the idiots saying the jockey was killed, he suffered mild concussion for a short while after the incident! However he himself showed respect and honour to Emily Davison, which just shows how powerful and meaningful what she did was!
I can't believe these images were taken 100 years ago to this day...
Nobody ever asks what happened to the jockey. Herbert Jones (1880-1951) spent some time in hospital with concussion and other injuries, but no bones had been broken. He retired from racing in 1923. In 1951 he committed suicide aged 70, not long after the death of his wife.
She attempted to attach a sash on the horse to attract attention towards the women's suffrage. Sorry if I'm being rude, but the jockey is jsut not the importance of this event. This poor woman lost her life due to the inequalities women faced; it shows what women were willing to do to vote. The jockey isn't important in our history in any way.
xXInfinityDiesXx I suppose even if he had died leaving a young family, he just wasn't important to anyone. No doubt his widow would have been pleased that a blow had been struck for emancipation as she struggled to pay the bills & mortgage alone.
xXInfinityDiesXx Check your privilege. She died accidentally.
+AKLDGUY This was 1913 - women were not allowed to own property, they were property themselves. I am not certain, but without a husband, a woman's place in society is even less than when she was owned by her husband. My guess is that if your scenario was the case, she would have been evicted, become destitute and probably even lose her children to the system as she would be unable to care for them, and it being Britain, she likely would end up a prostitute. That, in part, was what the Suffragette Movement was attempting to address and change - that women had rights, starting with the right to vote, that all humans had rights, regardless of gender, regardless of colour.
rareblues78daddy Bad day?
0:13 I didn't know they had cloning technology back then! So cool!!
+endale What about the I-Pad at 1:42?
+logbasher lol classic
+endale I'm guessing it's some viewer thing or early camera, but held just like everyone does these days with Tablets and phones. try and find someone without a hat... bet you can't :D
@@Thunderer0872 lol yeah
Yes they did, but it was only legal to clone pigs back then. Now it's legal to clone anything but mostly they clone sheep.
Can't believe so many of these comments. This women risked and then gave up her life for a cause that so many people take for granted nowadays
She almost killed the jockey too but FUCK THAT GUY right? He was a man and lived during the "wrong" time.
+Robert Garvey Casualty of what was most definitely war.
+Robert Garvey she didn't almost kill the jockey, he was traumatised to the point that he never rode again and he suffered injuries including a concussion but she did not almost kill him however he did commit suicide in 1951 following the death of his wife.
But trying to murder someone?? Horses are extremely dangerous and she could've killed someone.
I fully applaud her for her other activism efforts but violent activism like this is wrong and just ends up with people getting hurt and dieing.
+Dire_Venom people getting hurt yes but shes the only one who died....Plus she died for a cause that has changed millions of lives
She didn't try to pull down the kings horse
+Captain Mossy
The news editors were facist dicks, so, yeah.
She tried to put a scarf on it that said “Votes for Women” but got crushed
@@bintou21 How could that possibly be true, I mean look at how FAST those horses were racing - she had to be deliberately attempting to martyr herself.
No, she didn't, but it was what they first thought. Much like today, journalists went with their first thought or the popular impression at the time.
She bravely, but naively thought she could stick a rosette, ribbon, scarf, or whatever it actually was, on the horse as it passed. I don't think she had actually taken into consideration the speed and power of animals coming towards her. She got herself killed, but it was not intentional. But it made for good press and propaganda for the cause if they slanted it that way.
Nope, just tried to attach a scarf to an animal traveling 40 mph and weighing 1/2 a ton. Which I think was a terrible idea. No way that horse was cold enough to need a scarf at that particular moment.
"There is evidence to suggest that she didn't intentionally kill herself, for example, she had a return ticket home found in her belongings and on the footage of what happened she is standing a bit to the side and attempts to grab the reigns of the horse.... Modern historians agree that Davison was trying to disturb the Derby in order to draw attention to her cause, rather than to commit suicide, and 2013 analysis of newsreel has supported the idea that Davison was reaching up to attach a scarf to the bridle of the King's horse.." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Davison
she killed herself to get publicity for the women rights, suffragette campaign.
This is the exact same thing we have learned in history lol
1:46 wow didnt know there were ipads at this time
Back of a box camera
The lady at 6:18 seems to be delighted for some reason.
@Thane Mac Nice bait m8
@@ember-brandt he's talking about the lady that's laughing kind of in the center lower part
it's a good spot. I watched this moment with suspicion thinking who ever recorded this was probably delighted with the content. That is the true Suffragette right there.
I came from TOWIE to studying Emily Davison and the Suffragette's xx Thanks for the upload xx
And nothing of value was lost.
FiveofHearts1 Excuse me?! She fought for women’s rights! She was a serious badass bitch and she was incredibly brave and courageous!
Thanks Jonathon, you are right and I was wrong. After writing the above, I found a commentary on the appropriate laws!
Best wishes from Warsaw, Poland.
Happily, Anmer was unharmed and raced again several times that season, reappearing at Royal Ascot a couple of weeks after the Derby. He had won at Newmarket in early 1913 (his only racecourse success) and raced again in 1914 (just a few runs) before being retired from racing. In 1916, he was exported to Canada to stand as a stallion and was a successful sire there until the early 1930's, when he died.
I wish I had seen the TV prog about this event. I didn't realise Emily wanted to pin the suffragette's colours to the horse's bridle, NOT to kill herself. The jockey never got over seeing her face as she approached.
A train driver friend spoke of a suicide who stood in the middle of train tracks, and their eyes locked- the driver can never ''un-see'' the victim's face either. Very sad.
In those days , Before the great war ... The British Bobby ( Policeman ) was cloned in a secret factory in Hampshire . These law enforcers were fed on Black Pudding and Stout as seen in this footage .
clever response there. round of applause for coming up with something so original
A year later WW1 starts, in which 11 million men lay down their lives for women and their country. Such a horrible war
GiRLS she is the reason we have the same rights as men respect that she gave up her life for us to have a better life !
Seriously?
***** She was fighting for women's right to vote, which is a right that men had but not women in 1913, so yeah, she was fighting for the same rights.
J.3mma Elizabeth It's a shame we have feminism nowadays...
Ok... I'm French, I'm searching English heroes, and some comments are just... Incredible but not in the good meaning... The suffragettes are admirable, in England women have the right to vote like men in 1928, in France (you know the country of men's rights :P ;) ) it's only in 1944 !! So be proud of the progress of your country because you are in the first country of the earth to have this beginig of equality... ;) Sorry if my English isn't correct. ^^'
Ima lad and even I agree with that ☺️
only thing i remember from 9th grade history
Lol, mines 6 grade
Disgraceful! She nearly killed a damn good horse.
+John Kelly
I was mad too but I realise that this was necessary, without it, England and many other countries, wouldn't have equal rights. But I did feel sorry for the horse
+Pixle Pixie fuck the horse but this was not necessary, it was good feminists like mary wollstonecraft that changed history.
Calm yourselves guys its my view on things I don't want to start an arguement
John Kelly Im really fucking hoping your being sarcastic. If not, fuck you.
John Kelly fucking men that’s the thing you never went through this and then you act like it’s all a joke fuck off
'Herbert Jones, the jockey who was riding the horse, suffered a mild concussion in the incident, but was "haunted by that poor woman's face" for much longer. In 1928, at the funeral of Emmeline Pankhurst, Jones laid a wreath "to do honour to the memory of Mrs Pankhurst and Miss Emily Davison". In 1951, his son found Herbert Jones dead in a gas-filled kitchen, having committed suicide.' Excerpt from wikipedia.
One of the kids in my class while we watched this: SHE NEEDS SOME MILK
I did that
Send that kid to hell
@Kota Hyatt indeed, I was
No apology needed! Just correcting you since I had my A-level exam on this only a few days ago.
after comparing i prefer the susan b anthony approach, where the only victim was the federal agent who was embarrassed to have to arrest her, while the jockey here (acording to wikipedia anyway) was so haunted by this incident he eventually commited suicide, plus susan b anthony ended up on a coin.
At 6:08.
and you think about all the stuff that happens these days ON CAMERA
Before America commercialized sports. Beautiful. I miss it.
I remember watching this footage as a child and I recall the shocking impact which, IMO, was made somehow worse by the lack of dubbed in 'sound'. This is an opinion but I believe the horse was trying to jump over the lady but, of course, it was far too late for that and in so doing the terrified horse somehow half jumped which made the dreadful impact even more catastrophic, if I may use that word. It was most certainly ill-advised and seemingly appeared almost suicidal in intent, and in actuality. I won't dwell on the what ifs and on the obvious debates here about the reasoning behind her calamitous decision to act in this manner. I just found the whole thing so awfully sad and an appalling waste of life including the poor jockey who years later killed himself. All we have is our time here on this Earth and it goes away so fast so peace be upon you wherever you are.
Hers was a noble cause and I fully support her
@@AcidOllie Yes, it was a noble cause and the poor woman paid the ultimate price.
@@AcidOllie yeah, she got us so far eh
how society has changed, if this happened nowadays everyone would stand there with their cameras filming it and do nothing to help!
Nostalgic Chassidic Music You make a good point, but I think that people would do a little more. Plus, filming it would enable people to view it all over the world.
You included?
That was really scary!
Herbert Jones rode Anmer in the Derby. He was involved in a collision with Emily Davison, the suffragette, who died four days later from a head injury and internal injuries on June 8, 1913. Jones suffered significant injuries himself, including mild concussion. Some claim that Miss Davison was trying to disturb the derby rather than kill herself.
I hope the horse was ok....
This has got to be one of the very first fail videos.
I noticed that too, a time traveller filming the Kings arrival
Was not familiar with her until seeing this newsreel.
The Wikipedia article on Emily Davison has a lot of good information. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Davison
A key section:
"Like other acts of suffragette militancy, Davison’s actions divided public opinion, some admiring her courage, others decrying the disruption of sport, the injury to the jockey, or the slight to the King.[21] But the direct consequence was to galvanise male political support for suffrage, in the form of the Northern Men's Federation for Women's Suffrage."
She paid a high price but furthered the advancement of women.
@Nicholas Nelson she didn't mean to. A return ticket was found on her. She had also been training to pin flags on running horses at a farm near her home. She wanted the flag of the WSPU to be on the kings horse. She underestimated the speed and force of the horse coming around the bend.
She doesn't "throw herself under the kings horse". She's not being like a suicide bomber, killing herself to prove a point. She ran out and attempted to attach a "votes for women" scarf to the King's horse, but she misjudged the speed and was trampled over instead. Being killed was a complete accident!
where is this banner thing coming from
wait a minute, pause at 6.09 when she tries to grab the horse, because there is a small black box that quickly doesn't show the quick frame of her grabbing the horse, it blocks out her head and part of the horse?
Being polite to people and admitting you're wrong! That's not how this place works!
She had something in her hand that I think she was trying to pin onto the kings horse but instead misjudged how fast the horse was going and ended up being hit
This women played a part in why you grandmother,mother, sister and daughter has had it more easy, show some respect!
00:13 Did every policeman have a moustache back then?
@Duncan Sands Found the meninist
Not at all, you did the right thing. As a historian myself I would have done the same thing!
I was rather hoping you might have some films from Bristol but I suppose I will have to wait for that!
Regards from Calabria, Italy!
Yes, you are right, PA systems existed in 1913 - there was one on the Titanic for example BUT there was no commentary on races at this time. Therefore the evidence is that it was coincidence that she hit the king's horse.
Not only did she buy a ticket home but she even planned a few days away in France after the event. I think that this was a practicle joke gone wrong. I don't even think she meant to put it on the Kiing's horse due to the difficulty of identifying it, I think any horse would have done.
R.I.P Emily Davison AND Herbert Jones
R.I.P Herbert Jones.
the poor thing and everyone thought it was on perpose but it was her trying to put the banner on the horse so sad :( ;(
I know someone died and all but...isn't it wonderful how the majority of the people watching rushed to her and the horse riders aid instead of leaving it to a small "medical team" to deal with
I don't quite understand your point. If I were in a crowd and someone did this, I would rush to them as well.
Broken Doll Nowadays, the most of the public wouldn't be allowed (or want to go) anywhere near because the staff would be dealing with it
And now Emily Davison has a road named after her - Emily Davison Drive. It's near Tattenham Corner train station, a petrol station and some shops.
SlypherSpoons Shut up before you pollute the world with your stupidity again.
SlypherSpoons She's got bigger balls than you'll ever have. I can't see such a coward as yourself going to prison to fight for injustice.
Emily Davison did not commit suicide. She was meant to run onto the pitch and throw a suffragettes banner over the kings horse but failed and got trampled on and she died accidentally. She did not do this on purpose.
The year was 1913...
Makes a lot of sense if you believe in bad luck.
+GameCheater803
Yup
she never want to kill herself!!!!! she wanted to attach a scarf on to the kings horses bridle ffs xxx
OMG, that was really clever!!!
Just watched the Claire Balding programme on this really interesting that she was trying to petition the king in the fight for votes for women by attaching a suffragette scarf to the kings horse
i fully respect her, i had to do an assessment on her at school a few weeks ago! than k you may you rest in peace :)
O.K. I am grateful that her _sacrifice_ lead to more equality for women, but all I see here is an incredibly foolhardy act that got her killed and endangered the lives of others. She did not think this one through.
MySuperDub Your blatant arrogance and stupidity in this comment really does shine through. Nobody gave a -shit- about women’s rights except for the two small groups of early stage feminists. People did NOT listen, and she made a very dangerous stand. It went wrong, but she helped millions and millions of females in today’s society.
She was trying to put banner on it not kill herself
I accept that as an argument and you have answered my question. Nonetheless I do not see how holding these two views are incompatible.
I personally don't think Emily Davison was on a suicide mission, nor do i think she was attempting to pull down the king's horse, as it says in the news reel caption. I saw the channel 4 programme last night, and they have restored the footage and it shows her holding out something in her out scteched left arm, (they think a silk scarf). None of us will ever know for sure why she 'bobbed' under the railing and did what she did, but one things for sure, it ended in a true tragedy.
Ouch
oh my god.
There are many reasons for and against her being a martyr or just it being her trying to stop Anmer.
100 years today !!
she didn't intend to die she was taking a stand for women, to prove a point. the only reason she died was because of her injures two days after not on the actual day of the derby. she was trying to put a banner on the kings horse to show that women have power she had been practicing this for months before but when it came to it she miss judged it and this caused her to get injured and result in her death.
I hope the horse and the rider were ok.
THiS IS A VERY iMPORTANT MOMENT
There is no evidence that she allowed herself to be killed but there is evidence that it was an accident. She had a return ticket home as well as a ticket to a dance that evening. She was due to visit her sister in France later that month. Finally, as can be seen in the film, there is no way that she could have known which horse belonged to the king - there was no commentary, radio and she was not in the stands. I believe it was a prank that went wrong.
Sorry for taking 10 years to reply. You're missing something obvious - the jockey was wearing the King's colours. The point of jockeys' silks is they are bright and distinctive. No other stable would have silks remotely resembling the King's colours. Also, and I don't know this for sure, the bridle of the King's horse was likely very distinctive. Even the colour of the horse would have guided her to the King's horse. This footage is monochrome, but people saw in colour back then, just like we do today.
@@fluchterschoen There is nothing wrong with taking ten years to reply! I was not aware of the jockey's silks. However, I still think that she went there to protest, not to kill herself.
@@VanlifewithAlan I agree totally with you then. She went to protest, not to die. I do think her protest was exploiting the fact of the King's horse being present, for added press attention.
Amen!
SORRY - HUMBLE APOLOGY - You are correct, it was the Reform Act of 1918 which abolished the property qualification and not the Reform Act of 1884 as I suggested above.
I shall of course be paying serious compensation to anyone who did not vote and could have voted between 1884 and 1918 if only they had bothered to buy a house as a result of the misinformation I wrote earilier!!
Great place Bristol!! I am sure its history is very interesting!!
00:18 seconds...Im sorry, but I..."mustache" you a question.....
Yes.
So many amazing moustaches 0:13
I don't want to make something light of all this but did someone else notice 3:05 it looks like the Thompson brothers from Tintin?
Well he wouldn't have won much anyway considering that horse was near the back haha
me too
channel 4 racing brought me here
better fps than my Samsung
You have more in common with them than you thought then.
She must have been so devoted to her cause to do such a thing for Pankhurst.
What a mad old bat. I'm glad to see they finished the race.
I have studied this matter, and when you look at it, it may have been due to the government being intimidated.
In the paper today it says they found proof she wasnt trying to kill herself like they all claimed she had, and she wasn't trying to pull down the kings horse, she was trying to pin a badge on him as he went round but of course a stupid stunt failed and she died, as if u wouldnt expect that running in front of horses
Anmer was up and running soon enough :)
reading all these comments made me think that men way of thinking isn't different nowadays from 1013's
+Isabella Sammartino Yep. Nothing has changed except spelling and grammar.
+gumenski If you mean I wrote wrong this comment, I'm sorry but I'm not english/american. I'm from Italy... do you speak italian?
and idiots still running in front of fast objects to sue the other person
maybe sacrifici themselves for a noble reason....or your macchiamo can't show you the huge her courage?? Only mean boys can do it?
+Isabella Sammartino just make sure you got dashcam
one day save your life fiancially can trust any bum looking at your car while driving and jumping in front trying to claim you hit them and then sue
you'll thank me later
Emily Davison was trying to place a flag with women’s rights on the kings horse but she fell off. She wasn’t trying to pull down the kings horse.
Yes you are right and I was wrong. I have published my humble apology but if this is insufficient I shall repeat an even more humble apology.
I did this in O level history. I forgot!
Emmeline Pankhurst's daughter Christabel did dish out white feathers under the banner of the women's suffrage movement and was also a supporter of mass conscription. Her two younger sisters took the opposite view though.
Still, it was filmed with a potato, and to call it "HD" is misleading.
the card says suffragette killed in attempt to pull down kings horse, like they could have atlas putter name there
i believe people who actually know about politics should only know and she did she was very intelligent
RIP
i think it was a bit of both she ridked her life and in my opinion she should have tried to put thhe banner from the side of the horse because you should know if a horse is coming at 35kmh youve got no chance
The King lost?
He might be a Time Traveller. O_O
Hi-tech film analysis suggests Emily Davison's motives when she collided with the king's horse in 1913 were misunderstood
Vanessa Thorpe
Sun 26 May 2013 00.00 BST
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As an emblem of women's emancipation Emily Wilding Davison has always been controversial. The suffragette who was fatally injured at the Epsom racecourse during the Derby 100 years ago under the hooves of the king's horse has been saluted by some as a brave martyr and attacked by others as an irresponsible anarchist. Now detailed analysis of film footage of the incident has shed new light on the contentious moments on 4 June 1913 that were to go down in the history of political protest.
Despite the fact that film technology was in its early days, the incident was captured on three newsreel cameras and a new study of the images has shown that the 40-year-old campaigner was not, as assumed, attempting to pull down Anmer, the royal racehorse, but in fact reaching up to attach a scarf to its bridle.
The analysis, carried out by a team of investigators for a television documentary to be screened tonight on Channel 4, also indicates that the position of Davison before she stepped out on to the track would have given her a clear view of the oncoming race, contrary to the argument that she ran out recklessly to kill herself.
Presenter Clare Balding and investigators Stephen Cole and Mike Dixon returned to the original nitrate film stocks taken on the day and transferred them to a digital format. This was done so that they could be cleaned and so that new software could cross-reference the three different camera angles.
"It has been such an extraordinary adventure to discover more about her, about what she stood for, about the suffragette movement," said Balding this weekend on her work with the team making Secrets of a Suffragette.
"It is hugely significant as a moment in history, a moment that absolutely sums up the desperation of women in this country who wanted the vote."
Historians have suggested that Davison was trying to attach a flag to King George V's horse and police reports suggested two flags were found on her body. Some witnesses believed she was trying to cross the track, thinking the horses had passed by, others believed she had tried to pull down Anmer. The fact that she was carrying a return train ticket from Epsom and had holiday plans with her sister in the near future have also caused some historians to claim that she had no intention of killing herself.
In 2011 the horse-racing historian Michael Tanner argued that as Davison was standing in crowds on the inside of the bend at Tattenham Corner it would have been impossible for her to see the king's horse.
But new cross-referencing between the cameras has revealed, say the C4 programme makers, that Davison was closer to the start of Tattenham Corner than thought and so had a better line of sight. In this position she could have seen and singled out Anmer.
Historians have suggested that Davison and other suffragettes were seen "practising" at grabbing horses in the park near her mother's house and that they then drew lots to determine who should go to the Derby.
After colliding with Anmer, Davison collapsed unconscious on the track. The horse went over, but then rose, completing the race without a jockey. Davison died of her injuries four days later in Epsom Cottage Hospital.
At the funeral of the leading suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in 1928, the jockey who had ridden Anmer that day, Herbert Jones, laid a wreath "to do honour to the memory of Mrs Pankhurst and Miss Emily Davison". Jones had suffered a mild concussion in the 1913 collision, but afterwards claimed he was "haunted by that poor woman's face".
In 1951, his son found Jones dead in a gas-filled kitchen. The jockey had killed himself.
I hate modern life.
that's the way to deal with them.