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The NUWSS was a peaceful movement where as the WSPU used violence.

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7th February 1907, more than 3,000 women trudged in the wet, cold and muddy streets of London from Hyde Park to Exeter Hall for womans suffrage.

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The National union of women's suffrage society was formed in 1897 under the leadership of Millicent Fewcett. They wanted the vote for middle class property-owning women.

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Millicent Garrett Fawcett was born in 1847. The Yorkshire feminist married to the MP Henry Fawcett formed the NUWSS in 1897 and she died in 1929 same year all women in Britain won the right to vote. She will soon be the first woman to get a statue in London's Parliament Square.

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The Women's Suffrage Committee, formed by Barbara Bodichon, collected 1500 signatures on a petition for women's suffrage in 1866. This was presented to the House of Commons by John Stuart Mill, the philosopher, political economist and Member of Parliament.

Between 1870 and 1884 debates on women's suffrage took place almost every year in Parliament. This succeeded in keeping the issue in the public eye as Parliamentary proceedings were extensively covered in the national and regional press of the time.

In 1897 National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) formed with twenty societies signing up in London and elsewhere. Millicent Garrett Fawcett is elected President.

1918
The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act is passed on 21 November allowing women to stand for Parliament

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Similarities and Differences between NUWSS and WSPU

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Similarities and Differences between NUWSS and WSPU

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- Both groups fought for women to have the right to vote.
- The WSPU used much more violent tactics as they felt that the NUWSS's peaceful protest did not get anything done.
- The WSPU resonated more with working class women where as the NUWSS took a very middle class approach towards gaining the right to vote.

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-Tried to use Leaflets, Posters and public meetings to get support.
-They would hold local public meetings in cities such as Manchester, and the NUWSS would also arrange national meetings where individual leaders (Lydia Becker etc)  of the movement would meet to discuss petitions.

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The NUWSS wanted the right to vote for middle class and property-owning women. 

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The NUWSS wanted the right to vote for middle class and property-owning women. 

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Campaigners felt that the best way to achieve equal status with men, in society and in the home, would be to get the vote and participate in the parliamentary process.