Issues

Thank you.
One can only assume the women were part of The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) which was the militant branch of women’s suffrage campaign because of such violent intentions.....but that organisation wasn’t founded until 1903!
The fight for the vote was not solely a ‘white’ concern and all women were included, so it’s likely that non-Caucasian women were involved in suffrage. Around 1910 at its height, the suffrage movement had many Indian members.

‘In 1913 Christabel Pankhurst, co-founder and organising secretary of the WSPU, wrote: ‘If men use explosives and bombs for their own purpose they call it war, and the throwing of a bomb that destroys other people is then described as a glorious and heroic deed. Why should a woman not make use of the same weapons as men?’

I don’t agree with terrorist acts either.

I think the martial arts for women would have been a problem for many viewers, but it’s very interesting to note they were practised by women. A book entitled The Fine Art of Jujutsu was written in 1906 by Emily Diana Watts who taught it, and it’s the first known book on Japanese martial arts written in English by a female writer and teacher. Whilst I think it would be strange to have such a class space above a cafe, that kind of physical activity did obviously occur; whose to say that black women did not participate?

I personally don’t see a problem with the character of Edith (the martial arts/cafe woman) being black and working in a cafe. Coffee houses traditionally were places where political rebellions etc were formulated and, traditionally customers would have sometimes been served by indentured slaves. British society, particularly London, has been ethnically diverse for centuries. Women at the turn of the century, including non-Caucasian women, of low to moderate means (gauging by the size and location of the cafe) would have had to work and working in any kind of eating house would have been an acceptable job.

Exactly. This is what these good, honest, guardians of history / definitely not racists need to understand.

Just wait until the inevitable remake of Zulu comes along and Michael Caine and all the rest of his heroic Imperialist British Empire Officer buddies have been replaced by Michael B Jordan, John David Washington, etc.

When we are all cheering them on as they blast down hordes of white spear wielding savages, they will be spraying out their coffee, proclaiming "No, no, stop the film! This is an affront to historic accuracy! These chaps would have been the blacks and the officers gunning them down would have been white, this is ALL WRONG! For historical accuracy's sake we simply MUST see whites gunning down blacks!!!" but by then it will be too late.

No one will even listen to their genuine argument of the merits of racial segregation of actors for the sacred good of historical accuracy as they will long since have been discredited by any remotely moderate thinking person as racists for moping over the casting in fantasy productions such as this.

One which has the girl from Stranger Things playing the later day fabricated teenage sister of the world's most famous Detective; adapted from a children's novel which itself rips off fictional works from over a century ago.

I just think it was a pretty dress and Millie looked good in it.

Thank you, that’s very insightful.

Here's the cover of the graphic novel adaptation:-
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