Up the Women

About Up the Women

It's 1910 and we're in Banbury church hall at the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle. Margaret has been to London and discovered the Women's Suffrage movement so she decides they need to set up their own movement and The Banbury Intricate Craft Circle becomes the hilariously ineffectual Banbury Intricate Craft Circle politely request women's Suffrage.

BBC Four's Up the Women is a comedy series. It ran for 2 seasons and 9 episodes between May 2013 and February 2015.

The series is filed under 1910s, women's suffrage, suffragettes, and sitcom. Jessica Hynes appears as Margaret, Vicki Pepperdine as Gwen, Rebecca Front as Helen, and Judy Parfitt as Myrtle.

In the United States it streams on Britbox Apple TV channel.

Parade's End make useful companions to Up the Women.