On Wednesday 4 June 1913, fledgling newsreel cameras captured just over two-and-a-half minutes of British social and sporting history when Emily Davison, a militant activist for womens suffrage, stepped out in front of
Anmer, the Kings horse, sustaining injuries from which she would die four days later. The horses jockey, Herbert Jones, would famously be haunted by that poor womans face and later took his own life.