WSPU Flashcards
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NUWSS
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- 1897
- 400 branches
- 50,000 members
- Middle class women
- Men could join
- Aim. - to persuade parliament to pass a law to allow women to vote, Relying on sympathetic mp’s
- Millicent Fawcett
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NUWSS (suffragists) Methods
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- Meetings
- Demonstrations
- Propaganda
- challenges in courts
- Avoided outdoor meetings
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WSPU
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- Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst
- Frustrated by Labour Party doing nish
- Affluent Middle class families
- Usually married to wealthy men or come from money
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WSPU Organisations
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- Votes for women newspaper
- Emmeline Pethwick Lawrence - wealthy. supporter and suffragette
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WSPU Branches
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- 1910 - 98 office working women in London
- 1911 - 64 London + Home countries Branches, 58 Branches throughout the whole of the UK
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May 1905
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- Another Bill to given women the vote talked out of parliament
- Decided they need to use force
- October Christabel/ Annie Kenney interrupt Liberal meetings
- Got arrested for Publicity
- Gained 119 branches is 6 years to follow
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Social Base of WSPU
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- Largely Northern W/C women
- Spent £2494 campaigning
- 1907 able to raise £20,000
- WSPU became fashionable
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Liberal GOV 1906
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- 1906 - Liberals win a landslide victory in the general election
- Reforming party, after the tories, high hope for change
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Liberals against women
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- Stopped women from attending liberal meetings unless they held a signed ticket
- Banned public meetings
- Censored the press in attempt to silence the WSPU
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Herbet Asquith Morals
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- Could not comprehend why someone would want to vote
- Loathed to allow militancy to dictate govt policy
- Wife and daughter hated the WSPU
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Conciliation Bill
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- 1910 - 54 MP’s all party set up to look at women’s votes
- 1911- Parliament Act - £10 a year qualification - 1/2 a million women only
- WSPU denounced the Bill
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Nov 1910
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- Parliament dissolved
- WSPU started militant protest 3 women died (Black Friday)
- Asquith Promises that the next parliament will have a vote for women bill
- 255 votes to 88 passed
- Loved George worried it would give tories loads of voters
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Government Franchise Bill 1913
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- New bill supported by labour, liberals and conservative MP’s
- Extend vote to W/C men
- Further bill
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Emily Wilding Davidson
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- Epsom Derby 1913
- Through Herself infant of the kings horse dead
- Major publicity
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WSPU militancy
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- Targeted Private property
- Destruction of churches
- Politicians houses with bombs and arson
- Hunger strikes in prison (Cat and Mouse acts 1913)
