International Women's Day Timeline: Suffragettes torch home of MP whose party resisted giving women the vote

The fight for emancipation took a violent turn in 1913 when the home of MP Arthur Du Cros was subject to an arson attack by suffragettes.

This remarkable footage from 100 years ago shows the building almost completely destroyed and its interior still smoldering. Passersby, some appearing to have gone on a walk with their dogs, wander past the front of the house.

Suffragettes had become increasingly frustrated at the Liberal Government's resistance to grant women the vote - a party which Mr Du Cros belonged to.

The campaign for women's suffrage in Great Britain became a national movement in 1872 with the creation of the National Society of Women's Suffrage.

But progress was slow and in 1903 the Women's Social and Political Union held their first meeting marking the beginning of a different type of campaign.

Some suffragettes were prepared to use more militant methods to raise awareness while ‘suffragists’ pursued their cause by marching, lobbying MPs and other peaceful methods.

Led by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, the women chained themselves to railings, went on hunger strikes, smashed windows and rushed out in front of the king's horse - an act which made a martyr out of Emily Davison.