Work of suffragists/suffragettes

• Who established the suffragists?

  Milicent Fawcett
• What was the Suffragists also known as?

  The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)
• Why was the Women’s Social and Political Union (Suffragettes) established?


  Despite the work of the NUWSS, some women felt the pace of change was too slow
• Who established the suffragettes?

  Emmeline Pankhurst
• How was the WSPU different to NUWSS?

  WSPU used militant tactics, NUWSS used peaceful methods. WSPU was only open to women
• WSPU (suffragettes) was focused on ‘deeds, not words’ using violence and illegal methods to publicise the issue of female suffrage and to put external pressure on those in power
• What kind of methods were used by the suffragettes?

  Disrupting political meetings, chaining themselves to railings, going on hunger strikes while in prison
• What helped persuade Parliament to give women over the age of 35 the right to vote in 1918?


  First World War and the fear of a resumption of the violence of the WSPU after the war ended