The suffragists (group 3) by Claire Goodwin https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2017-11-15 10:53:43 UTC 2025-10-29 16:13:15 UTC hello@padlet.com Peaceful Tactics https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208045442 -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.

]]> 2017-11-17 10:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208045442 Key Events and incidences (NUWSS) https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208045481 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


]]> 2017-11-17 10:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208045481 The NUWSS wanted the right to vote for middle class and property-owning women. https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208045575 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.

]]> 2017-11-17 10:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208045575 https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208046172 2017-11-17 10:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208046172 https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208046567 2017-11-17 10:59:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208046567 https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208047038 2017-11-17 11:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208047038 NUWSS https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208048292 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.]]> 2017-11-17 11:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208048292 The leader of the NUWSS https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208048345 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.]]> 2017-11-17 11:07:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208048345 The Mud March https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208048522
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. ]]> 2017-11-17 11:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208048522 Similarities and Differences between NUWSS and WSPU https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208051610 - 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.

]]> 2017-11-17 11:22:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208051610 https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208051679 2017-11-17 11:22:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208051679 https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208052986 2017-11-17 11:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208052986 https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208053390 The NUWSS was a peaceful movement where as the WSPU used violence.]]> 2017-11-17 11:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208053390 Aims for the movement https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208053805 2017-11-17 11:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cgoodwin3/h7fqnz3iqnyp/wish/208053805