2. Today’s lesson
We are consolidating our knowledge and understanding of
the role of the Suffragists to the campaign for women’s
suffrage
By the end of today’s lesson I should be able to:
1) Describe the campaign action used by the Suffragists.
2) Analyse the impact of the Suffragist Campaigns
Today’s lesson involves:
Note taking
Historiography task
3. The Suffragists
The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies was formed in 1897.
It was a merger or groups that had been campaigning for women to get
the vote since the 1860’s.
They later became known as the Suffragists they were led by Millicent
Fawcett.
Do you think it is better to protest peacefully or violently?
4. Methods used by the Suffragists
The Suffragists used a variety of
peaceful campaign methods to
win backing for their campaign.
They produced leaflets,
newspapers, took part in
marches, started petitions and
spoke directly to MPs.
One example of a march was a
huge march in Edinburgh in
1909.
5. Methods used by the Suffragists
The Suffragists also got involved in party
political actions. They supported the
Labour Party’s ‘Votes for all’ campaign.
They also helped campaigned against
MPs that were opposed to giving women
the right to vote.
Suffragists also targeted political leaders,
for example they targeted Winston
Churchill during an election campaign in
Dundee. He is said to have hidden in a
shed to escape them. (Sound familiar?)
6. Task 2 – Notes
Take two new columns in your jotter titled:
Reasons why the Suffragists helped the
women’s suffrage movement
Reasons why the Suffragists did not help
the women’s suffrage movement.
7. Opinion 1 – ‘The Suffragists helped the
women’s suffrage movement’.
The Suffragists used peaceful protest methods such as marching which
proved that women can be responsible so they can encourage MPs
they are responsible enough to get the vote.
The contact with MPs and the Labour Party was also successful as they
let women’s voices be heard in Parliament through suffrage-supporting
MPs.
In addition, by working with the Labour Party they put pressure on
their main competitors the Liberal Party (Who were in Government) to
listen to make sure they did not lose votes.
8. Opinion 2- ‘The Suffragists did not help the
women’s suffrage movement’
The Suffragists although were peaceful and respectable did not make
much a difference to the women’s suffrage movement.
The Suffragists were formed in the 1860’s at the earliest so many were
tired that it had taken so long for women to get the vote leading them
to be enticed to take more radical measures used by the Suffragettes.
The peaceful methods used by the Suffragists were not headline
grabbing so as a result the Government often ignored them, showing
that they were not influential in changing people’s minds on women’s
suffrage.
