Repeatedly targeted. And 100 years after some women won the right to vote, we look back at their Extraordinary Campaign and its legacy. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news. Chelsea will not be sacking manager antonio conte, despite mounting pressure following back to back league defeats. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Former executives at the failed construction and services giant carillion have apologised for the compa nys collapse. But they denied claims by mps that they were asleep at the wheel. The firm which employed 20,000 people in the uk went into liquidation last month. Today the companys former directors faced a committee of mps to explain what theyd known about its financial position. Our Business Editor simonjack reports. Summoned to westminster carillions top brass. Philip green was chairman of the board when the company collapsed, and he started with an apology. I would say i am deeply sorry for the impact that the colla pse deeply sorry for the impac
Ted coming up in just a few minutes. Erosion is also a problem along the northern jersey shore. The erosion is digging quite a path there along the beach. The fishing pier is damaged because of jose. Strong surf has been pounding. The far ends of the peer with were collapsed. They were rebuilt after hurricane sandy. This is a live look over center city. Islands in the caribbean are bracing for Hurricane Maria. People are scrambling for gas as they wait for maria, more than 60,000 customers are still without power following hurricane irma. Glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking Hurricane Maria and the effects of jose and what hell have on our area. A lot to talk about. Yeah. We certainly do. Lets start with the immediate threat. This is due to jose. You can see some of the outer bands. They are moving northeast to southwest. You can see they are coming right down from long island and not making a lot of progress to the west towards the philadelphia area. The center of the storm is pretty
, vamps and tramps, new essays which came out in 1994, the birds a study of Alfred Hitchcock published by the british film institute. Great road burns, Camille Paglia reads 43 of the worlds best poems and glaring images of the books she was here last year with five years ago including a journey through art from egypt to star wars. She is here this evening with her seventh book, free women free men. Sex, gender feminism. A cycle selection of her most notable lectures on the subject. Her third essay collection will be out by year from this fall from pantheon, a publisher expense publishing her work since sexual persona. She was contributor for salon. Com, beginning with its debut issue in 1995, written numerous articles on art, literature, feminism, religion, education and politics or publication around the world. Its a pleasure to thank you all for being here and now please join me in welcoming back to seattle Camille Paglia. [applause] hello. I dont know which microphone to use first b
Womens Voting Rights in the following years, especially africanamericans in the south and native americans. She also describes the fits that describes the difficulties faced by women running for office. Describes the difficulties faced by women running for office. Our speaker is the interim chair of the Women Studies Department at the university of maryland, and also a professor of history. I think several of you heard her speak a year ago about the Suffrage Movement in the context of the house. At the time she said she was doing research on how women got the vote. It was clear from your response you do too. Thank you so much for that introduction and the indentation. And the invitation. Thank you to everybody at the Smithsonian Associates who made this and taking care of the logistics. The 19th amendment, which was the womens suffrage amendment finally made it through congress in june of 1919 and ratified by three quarters of the state in august of 1920 and no stage could deny the vot