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Mothers. Daughters. Rebels. That's the tagline to a new film out today charting the suffragette movement in Britain in the early 20th Century. It stars Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter and Cary Mulligan, but the roots to this Hollywood epic could arguably traced back to places like Leicestershire. In 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst's foundation of the women's social and political union swept across the County and marked the start of a radical new phase in the fight to be allowed to vote. Women here in Leicestershire took to smashing windows and even burning buildings to get their message across.