Margaret Damer Dawson & The Women’s Police Service

The world was very different in 1914. Women were not permitted into some professions and most married women were not allowed to work at all, plus, no woman could vote. Yet in this time, before Britain joined the War, Margaret Damer Dawson founded the Women’s Police Service. The children in Year 3 of St Paul’s Primary School in Brighton: those who are 7 and 8, undertook a special project to explore how women came to join the Women’s Police Service, and all about Margaret Damer Dawson, who was actually born in Hove. They looked at the life of this extraordinary pioneer, and also the other women whose spirit changed history, and paved the way for women to be accepted in the Police Force today. This film is the result of their work. With gratitude to all the people that contributed and made this film possible