Women's Vote

• Suffragettes Tactics

  • Used militant tactics:
  • Getting arrested, and then going on hunger strike in prison,
  • Heckling at meetings, and get arrested
  • Tied themselves to railings outside Houses of Parliment,
  • Smashing windows
  • Attacks on art galleries, and acid on King's private golf course
  • Arson - burned down churches, and houses of MPs
• Suffragists Tactics

  • Used peaceful tactics:
  • Peaceful speeches,
  • Peaceful marches,
  • Writing to newspapers,
  • Leaflets,
  • Petitioning MPs,
  • Own newspaper - The Suffragist
• Hunger strike

  • 1909 - Marion Dunlop was the first Suffragette to go on hunger strike
  • As a result of this, the government started force-feeding women
• Reasons why women were given the vote

  • Women's war work,
  • Changing times
  • Suffragists,
  • Suffragettes
  • Other countries
  • New PM
• Reasons why women were given the vote - Changing Times

  • Edwardians were more modern, and saw it as important that women should be considered for the vote
• Reasons why women were given the vote - New Prime Minister

  • During the war, Herbert Asquith was PM, and was against women getting the vote
  • By 1916, he was replaced by David Lloyd George, who supported women getting the vote
• Reasons why women were given the vote - Other countries

  • By 1918, other countries had already given women the vote
  • Including:
  • Australia,
  • Canada,
  • Finland,
  • New Zealand