Founded the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) known as Suffragettes.

Used aggressive tactics and violent protest to campaign for the vote.

Linked the different women’s organisations into the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).

Campaigned peacefully for votes for women.

Countries that allowed women to vote in the 1910s.

They were used during the suffrage campaign as positive examples of women voting.

1913.

Made it illegal to force feed women on hunger strike in prison.

Instead they were released when they became ill.

They would then be re-captured when they were healthy again.

1911.

Post-poned the issue of womens suffrage.

Aimed to introduce universal male suffrage.

On the evening of the 1911 census she hid in a cupboard in the Houses of Parliament so she could genuinely state her residence as the Palace of Westminster.

In 1913 she stood in front of the king's horse at the Epsom Derby. She died from her injuries and became a Suffragette martyr.

In 1907 3,000 Suffragists marched through the muddy streets of London.

The marched was watched by thousands of citizens and peacefully highlighted the cause for women's suffrage.

The right to vote.

(We currently have universal-suffrage for all British citizens over 18 years old.)

Cristabel and Emmeline Pankhurst supported the war.

They encouraged men to join up, setting up recruitment stations and handing out white feathers.

Sylvia Pankhurst actually condemened the war, although she did organise food stations to support poor women in London.

The majority of suffragists supported the war.

They financed women's hospital units to provide relief for the war wounded.

1. 800,000 worked in industry, such as munitions factories (they became known as canaries because the chemicals turned their hair and faces yellow)

2. 200,000 worked as clerks

3. 250,000 worked as farmers in the 'Women's Land Army'

1918, for women over the age of 30 in

'The Representation of the People Act'.

1928, women were given the same voting rights as men (all over the age of 21).

1. Political lobbying

2. Hunger strikes

3. Civil disobedience - breaking the law through protest

4. Destruction of public property

5. Arson and bombings

6. Protest marches

All peaceful, legal methods

1. Letter writing

2. Political lobbying

3. Protest marches

Ms. Fawcett said in a speech in 1911 that their movement was "like a glacier; slow moving but unstoppable".