Stories from St Paul's: Series 6, Episode 5

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Stories from St Paul's: Series 6, Episode 5

On the 7th May 1913, the Suffragettes brought the fight for women’s votes to St Paul’s, when a plot to blow up the Bishop’s throne was narrowly foiled – after a Virger found the ticking bomb at the Cathedral’s east end. 

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