Suffragette actions were not terrorism

A woman looks through a window in a house near Holloway prison broken by the blast after the suffragettes tried to blow the prison up.• In her excellent review of BBC One’s Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley (G2, 5 June), Julia Raeside avoids the most problematic aspect of the film: calling the more extreme violence that some of the women engaged in “terrorism”.What the film did not state was that, unlike so many of today’s terrorists, the suffragettes aimed to kill no o