The Fight For Women's
Suffrage 1900-1918
Lesson Three: The National
Union of Women's Suffrage
Societies
Play your times right
Look at the photographs and decide as a class if they are in the correct
order. Go through each photos and shout out later or earlier and see if you
are correct. Fill in your student work books with the correct information.
5.1913
2. 1913
1. 1903
3.1909
4.1910
What we will learn today:
• Assess non-violent protest as a form of campaigning.
• The women's movement and the constitutional Suffragists
• The tactics used by the Suffragists and their impact.
• Establish whether or not the suffragists campaigns helped women
get the vote.
• Prepare for our visit the Peoples History Museum
Constitutional: working with parliament within the existing political
system to gain the vote, legally and peacefully.
Suffragists: Name for members of the National Union of Women's
Suffrage Societies, who campaigned for votes for women using
non-violent methods.
Watch this video and write down four words to
describe it.
In groups read through the newspaper
extracts and answer the questions in your
workbooks.
‘At noon, thousands of the protesters
paused to take part in Friday prayers.
As soon as the prayers finished, the
protesters renewed their chants of
"Leave", and began singing patriotic
songs and waving flags.’
‘Tens of thousands joined the crowd. There were shouts
and whistles, and more cries of "Leave, leave
Mubarak!", the mood was peaceful and there were more
women and children here than in the past few days.’
National Union of Women's
Suffrage Societies
Millicent Garrett
Fawcett
• In 1897, the existing suffrage
groups merged and formed the
National Union of Women's
Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
• In 1903, members who were
dissatisfied with the progress
made by the NUWSS, formed
the Militant group the WSPU.
• Despite this NUWSS still
attracted large numbers of
women and by 1907, it had
over 10,000 members and was
led by Millicent Garrett Fawcett.
National
Union of
Women's
Suffrage
Societies.
The NUWSS is like a
glacier; slow moving but unstoppable.
Processions
February 1907: 3,000 suffragists campaigners marched in London.
Known as the ‘Mud March’ due to torrential rain.
Worked with politicians
Up to 1910: Suffragists helped pro-female suffrage Liberal candidates
with their campaigns.
1912: Suffragists started to support Labour candidates that were profemale suffrage.
The Suffragist Pilgrimage
18 June -26 July 1912
In the summer of 1913,
meetings were held across
the country which finished
with a march in Hyde Park
on 26 July with 50,000
people.
Thousands of women
followed a route similar to
this from their home towns
to London.
Photo Timeline
• Using the event and props, plan three photographs for your trip to
the museum.
• You need to prepare the scene and use as many of the props as you
can.
• When you get to the museum, you will have to find the props and
take the photo, you can have extra people in the photo when you are
at the museum,
• E.g. If your photos are meant to be like a rally or meeting you might
want to incorporate the rest of the class to make the photo look
better.
• You can also create more props for your scene.
• You can use any area of the gallery for your photo unless you are
told otherwise.
The Strongest Link
In this game you can
1. Answer the question and become the strongest link.
2. Or pass the question to the strongest link.
BUT
You can only pass once.
The strongest link can only answer their own question
and pass a question once, so you cannot pass to a
strongest link that has already answered a pass
question.
If you become The Strongest link, you can...
1. have the choice to answer the pass question or pick
another question to answer.
2. pick who is asked the next question if you get the
question you are asked right.