Female suffrage in Britain

• Suffragette

  Campaign for female quality who believed in militant methods
• Suffragette tactics


  Arson: Setting fire to property

  Violent protest: criminal damage

  Hunger strikes whilst in prison: they would then be force fed
• Cat & Mouse Act


  Law passed by the government to allow the release and re-arrest of hunger strikers
• WSPU


  Women’s Social and Political Union

  Suffragette group led by the Pankhurst family
• Notable member of the WSPU

  Emmeline Pankhurst: served time in prison and was force fed

  Christabel Pankhurst: trained lawyer but was not allowed to practise

  Annie Keeney: working class member involved in militant activities

  Emily Wilding Davison: Was killed whilst campaigning and Epsom Race Course
• Suffrage

  The right to vote
• Suffragist

  A campaigner who believed in equality for women

  They believed in constitutional (legal) methods of campaigning
• Methods used by the Sufragist

  Marches - protest marches / gatherings

  Petitions - people showing support for the cause by signing
• NUWSS

  National Union of Women’s Suffrage Society

  Led by Millicent Fawcett
• Nancy Astor

  Became the first female MP in 1919
• Home front


  The people back in Britain
• War effort


  Contributing to WW1 at home

  Working in essential jobs like agriculture and munitions
• Munition factories


  Weapon factories

  Many women working in them became known as ‘canary girls‘ due to TNT turning their skin orange
• Representation of the People Act

  Law passed giving men over the age of 21 and women over the age of 30 the right to vote