Votes for women.

The name of Emily Davison is in the news lately.  Never heard of her? She is the lady who was killed when she famously "threw herself under the King's horse" at the 1913 Epsom Derby, and became a martyr of the Suffragette movement.  It is of course the centenary of that event. But does she deserve the title of martyr?  The essence of martyrdom is deliberately giving up your life for a cause, and yet it's long been accepted that she almost certainly didn't mean to kill herself (you don't buy a return ticket if you have no intention of going back) and that she was probably trying to attach something to the King's horse rather than bring it down. No question though that her death significantly raised the profile of the movement. I once worked with a distant relative of Emmeline Pankhurst who had been told that she (Emmeline) described it as "the defining moment".  So maybe it is right to commemorate her death.