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Remembering suffragette Emily Davison, who threw herself under the King's horse at Epsom On June 4, 1913, Emily Davison ran out onto the track at the Epsom Derby and was trampled to death by King George V's horse Anmer — and the whole thing was captured on film. A British suffragist who led several historic campaigns in the early 1900s, Davison had become increasingly militant in the years before her death and began using radical tactics like hunger strikes and arson to get her message across.⁠ ⁠ Many saw her death as a final act of protest, and for decades Davison has been hailed as a martyr of the suffragist movement. However, some say Davison wasn't staging a political act of self-harm by running onto the track, but was instead attempting to tie a suffragist scarf or flag to the horse. Indeed, police later found two flags and a return train ticket on her body after she died. Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for v...