Centenary of suffragette Emily Davison’s death

A routine account of the 1913 Epsom Derby, one of many horse races that the Topical Budget newsreel covered that year, this film inadvertently made a contribution to the history of the suffragette movement by capturing the moment when activist Emily Davison was trampled by Anmer, King George V’s horse, after she invaded the track.

More archive films like this are available to view on the BFI’s YouTube channel. They are preserved in the vast collections of the BFI National Archive