Picture tells story of Titanic survivor and suffragette

Elsie Bowerman worked with Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union, survived the sinking of the Titanic and went on to become a women's rights campaigner and the first female barrister at the Old Bailey.

She served throughout World War Two with the Women's Royal Voluntary Service.

Now a portrait of her is to be sold - by an auctioneer who discovered when researching the picture that his own great-great-grandfather had been in the same Titanic lifeboat with her.

She was born in Tunbridge Wells in Kent and lived most of her life in St Leonards in East Sussex.

South East Today's Ian Palmer spoke to the auctioneer Tim Medhurst and author and historian Helena Wojtczak.

Archive footage courtesy of British Pathe.