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Women's Suffrage
- Suffragists
- NUWSS
- Led by Millicent Fawcett
- 400 branches around UK
- Peaceful tactics
- Leaflets, petitions, meetings, posters
- Not much public interest - lack of progree
- 1910, 21571 members. 1914, 53000 members
- 1867-1900, women's suffrage rejected 15 times
- NUWSS
- Suffragettes
- WSPU
- formed 1903 - women lost patience with NUWSS
- Led by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst
- 34 branches in London
- 'Deeds not Words'
- violent tactics
- Clever posters, hunger strikes, postboxes on fire, axe at PM
- Emily Wilding Davison - martyr - kings horse
- Lots of public interest
- June 1908, 0.5 million attended meeting
- WSPU
- Anti Suffrage League
- Led by Mrs Humphrey Ward
- aimed to stop vote for women
- Led by Mrs Humphrey Ward
- Women in War
- Patriotism more important than vote
- Women got jobs - Canary Girls
- Persuaded men to fight
- Icreased respect from men
- Women War Pageant 1915
- 1918 - vote for women 30+
- Patriotism more important than vote
- Government attempts to stop progress
- Didn't want to upset public
- Didn't want to encourage tactics
- No 1 opinion
- Treated women as criminals
- force fed hunger strikers - public scandal
- 1910 agreed to work with women but abandoned Conciliation Bill - thought women would vote Conservative
- 1913 Cat and Mouse Act
- 18 Nov 1910, Black Friday, over 300 protested
- released hunger strikers before too ill
- rearrested when better
- Didn't want to upset public
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