Votes For Women

Question 1

Intro:

Context
LofA

Answer 1

More voters C19th
More responsibility for women but no vote
1918 Act details

Suffragists most important tbh

Question 2

Suffragists

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Answer 2

Polite Political campaign
Demonstrated politcial maturity and capability
Conciliation bills 1910,11,12 (James Agg-Gardner)
Shows influence in parliament
However they all failed
2 weeks before war, negotiations with gov

Question 3

Suffragettes

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Answer 3

“Deeds not words” and “hot potato”,
Window smashing campaign 1908 and women put in prison
Proved they were serious about their cause
Letterbox acid, chaining themselves to railing, attacking MPs eg Edward Grey
Terrorists, don’t give into demands: Lord Cecil: “brought so much disgrace and discredit upon their sex”
1911, “National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage”
Shows lack of credibility and widely disliked
Movement fizzled out by 1914!

Question 4

Changing Attitudes

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Answer 4

Grammar Schools eg Girton College 1869
Fading stereotype of “feeble-mindedness”
Changing attitudes passive factor
Parliament unlikely to act unless directly pressured
Evaluation “Prisoner’s Temporary discharge for ill health Act”
Direct action example

Question 5

Women in the war

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Answer 5

Suffragettes: “For men must fight and women must work”
200,000 gov departments, 700,000 munitions factories, “canary girls”
Women willing to make real sacrifice for their country, that they didn’t even have a say, even convinced Asquith
Wrong women given the vote!
Compare with France!
Paula Bartley “the pre-war suffrage movement did much to prepare the ground for votes for women”

Question 6

Foreign Examples

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Answer 6

Britain wanted to be ‘cradle of democracy’
Embrasement?
Massive time gap 
Finland 1872!
No documented evidence 

Midge Mackenzie: “WSPU revitalised the question of votes for women”