Mary Anne Baikie

[1] This followed a preliminary meeting at the home of James and Bina Cursiter, when Chrystal Macmillan, the suffragist champion of women's rights to a university education, had visited in Orkney, a month before.

Baikie suggested that the "Orcadian's high intelligence will recognise the justice of the claim of women for political recognition, and will heartily support the cause".

[5] By June 1910, Baikie was also developing a local Tankerness group, and an onerous 10 day tour by Wilhemina Hay Lamond (later known as Elizabeth Abbott) from the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage,[4] with meetings with fishermen at the pier, and in drawing-room groups, in Holm, Westray, Stronsay, Sanday (and North Ronaldsay), Kirkwall, Shapinsay, Rousay, Deerness, and Stromness); Lamond also aimed to visit remote Fair Isle.

[7] In December 1911, Baikie convened another public meeting (including a social soireé) where she explained the Conciliation Bill and suffragist position, reported as "a brilliant speech, characterised by a sweet spirit of reasonableness, which was as convincing as it was enjoyable.

[9] A special "Orcadian Banner" designed by local artist, Stanley Cursiter and Shetlander Christina Jamieson was carried at the Coronation Procession in London by Baikie's niece, Miss Courtenay,[10] with the other representative groups of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.

[4] In November 1912, local paper The Orcadian dedicated a large section of its news to Baikie's explanation, at a crowded meeting in the Albert Temperance Hotel, Kirkwall, of the various Parliamentary mechanics of the draft Reform Bill (an Act to extend the male electorate but not to include women).

"[12] Other speakers mentioned the Scandinavian "blood" of Orcadians as Denmark or Norway, women already had the vote, and could soon stand for public office on the same conditions as men.

The film was written by Orkney-based journalist Fiona Grahame, painted and animated by Martin Laird, with a musical score by James Watson and narration by Kim Foden.