011 - Suffering for Suffrage (feat. Joanne Thomson)

Welcome back for more Under the Kilt action! To kick things off we've got a tidy list of ladies who weren't afraid to make a mess. Outlander's Joanne Thomson joins to sing the praises of some of Scotland's fiercest suffragettes.

Our Guest Joanne Thomson!

Joanne as Amy McCallum, Outlander

Joanne as Mary Leigh, Suffragettes

Joanne in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart

The release of suffragettes Mary Leigh and Edith New from Holloway, 1908

News story on Marion Walace Dunlop, English suffragette

Wee Bessie Watson

'General' Flora Drummond being escorted by police

Mary Phillips under arrest

Grace Cadell, medical practitioner / suffragette

Ethel Moorhead, threw an egg at winston churchill

Agnes Brown - one of the 'Brown Women' who walked from edinburgh to london

Mary Moloney - followed churchill w bell

More on Joanne:

Joanne Thomson is an Actor, Writer and Director from Glasgow, Scotland. Since graduating with a BA in Acting from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland she has also trained with the Groundlings Improv School in Los Angeles. She has worked extensively across the UK as an actor and has directed internationally award-winning theatre. Outlander fans will recognize her as Amy McCallum, first introduced in Season 6. Other projects include feature film Kill, DS Lisa Harvey in The Victim, BAFTA winning drama The Suffragettes and In Plain Sight, which won her 2 Best Actress nominations. For more information check out her website at joannethomson.co.uk

Follow Joanne at @JoanneThomson22 on Instagram and Twitter.

SOURCES: Where are the Women? by Sara Sheridan, Womens Suffrage Scotland wordpress site and others. Full list of sources available on our website.

SOCIALS: Follow Under The Kilt at @underthekiltpod on Twitter & Instagram

CREDITS:

Original Theme: Tyler Collins aka “Two Metre Man”

Additional Music: Garreth Spinn

Original Art: Sarah Cruz

Producers: Kathleen Mueller Mason & Natalie Younger

SPONSORS: Direct sponsorship inquiries and other questions to [email protected]