Who Do You Think You Are? Series 15, Episode 1: Michelle Keegan

[DavidJP]

Hi all,

Just come across the fact that the first episode of series 15 is to be broadcast tomorrow!

Details here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007t575/broadcasts/upcoming


It is Michelle Keegan's episode which apparently features a connection to the suffragettes.

Broadcast tomorrow (Weds 6th June) 9.00pm on BBC1, the link above also shows broadcast details for Wales & Scotland!

Kind regards

David

[chirp]

Thank you for that David. I realised that I wouldn't be able to see the programme tonight here in Scotland but it was only when I saw your post and followed the link I learned of the transmission for us WDYTYA addicts north of the border.

[StanleysChesterton]

Just spotted this, only missed the first half
Telly's intermittent, but luckily it worked! 

But I have no idea ..... who she is .... what the story was up to this point.

Oh well... better to watch half an hour and not know what's going on than to miss it all

[sleepybarb]

No I didn’t know who she was either,but it was quite interesting. Especially the Suffragette part .
    Barb

[Mart 'n' Al]

Celebrities certainly aren't what they were.

Martin

[jaywit]

At least this one was different.

Agreed 'celebrity ' is stretching it a bit but she did have an interesting and very different family history.

The church was outstanding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Stefano_(Genoa)

[Rishile]

I was a little confused about this one.  It was advertised as being about the Suffragettes but her Great Grandmother was shown on the census as a Suffragist.  It was assumed that this meant she was a Suffragette and a piece followed about the Suffragettes. 

I thought the aim was the same for Suffragettes and Suffragists but Suffragists were not militant and didn't break the law.  Why was it assumed that she was militant and the census was wrong?

Rishile

[Gan Yam]

I was a little confused about this one.  It was advertised as being about the Suffragettes but her Great Grandmother was shown on the census as a Suffragist.  It was assumed that this meant she was a Suffragette and a piece followed about the Suffragettes. 

I thought the aim was the same for Suffragettes and Suffragists but Suffragists were not militant and didn't break the law.  Why was it assumed that she was militant and the census was wrong?

Rishile

I thought exactly the same and some how because Emmaline Pankhurst was the registrar for her grandmother's birth, her gt gran became a militant suffragette!

[halhawk]

I thought exactly the same and some how because Emmaline Pankhurst was the registrar for her grandmother's birth, her gt gran became a militant suffragette!

I suspect the programme was making use of the fact that most people will have heard of the Suffragettes, and that there was the useful link to Emmeline to attach the story to.  I think that not even all members of the WSPU would have called themselves Suffragettes, and probably some women who were not WSPU might have qualified as Suffragettes under the 'popular' definition of the time.

I just did 2 quick searches of the 1911 census using just the keyword 'suffragist' and then 'suffragette', and there looks to be some interesting entries there.  When I have more time I'll look in more detail.  One thing that interests me is how many men may have recorded their wives/sisters/daughters as suffragist/suffragettes.  (BTW don't try 'suffrage' as a keyword - there was a street in Smethwick, Worcs called Suffrage Street! )