b)work of suffragists and suffragettes to extend franchise

• where women were allowed to vote?

  in local council elections but not in parliamentary elections

  only men should have a say in issues of national and imperial importance.
• what were sufragists?

  Members mainly middle-class women who believed in non-violent methods of persuasion, peaceful demonstrations, petitions and lobbying MPs.
• who formed the Women’s Social and Political Union in 1903?

  Emmeline Pankhurst, a former suffragist was supported by her daughter Christabel