Enquiry 1 What’s the story of the women’s suffrage campaign?

1. Enquiry 1What’s the story of the women’s suffrage campaign?

2. Enquiry overview Lesson 1: How did women win the vote? Lesson 2: How did the suffragettes make themselves the story? Lesson 3: What story of the women’s suffrage campaign did George Dangerfield tell? Lesson 4: How have historians tried to tell different stories of who won the vote for women? Lesson 5: How do different sources complicate the story of how women won the vote? Lesson 6: What’s the story of the women’s suffrage campaign? Outcome activity: Storyboard a cartoon answering the enquiry question.

3. Lesson 1How did women win the vote?

4. Lesson 1 overview • Content covered in the lesson: • The Representation of the People Act and remembering the past. • Why does the Act deserve to be remembered? • The story of the women’s suffrage campaign: how did they gain the vote? • Timeline of women’s suffrage, 1866–1928.

5. The Representation of the People Act and remembering the past Q: What kinds of people can you see? Q: What do you think might have happened in 1918? Q: What is this? This coin was made on the centenary (100-year anniversary) of the Representation of the People Act, when many more people, in particular some women, were given the right to vote for the first time.

6. The Representation of the People Act and remembering the past Q: Why do you think some events or people get remembered by being put on to coins? Q: What do you think the artist who designed this coin is trying to say about the Act?

7. Why does the Act deserve to be remembered? The coin was made by the Royal Mint. On their website, this is what they say about it: The First World War cost the lives of millions of men who answered the call to fight for their country. But these brave men did not have the right to vote at home. The women who kept the country running through their jobs in farming, munitions factories and coal mines were also not entitled to vote. Reform had to come. The Representation of the People Act 1918 gave voting rights to women over 30, who met minimum property qualifications, and all men over 21. It was a landmark step on the road to equal representation and to the rights we enjoy today. Q: Why is the Royal Mint saying that the Representation of the People Act deserves to be remembered?

8. Activity 1: The story of the women’s suffrage campaign In 2018, the centenary of the Representation of the People Act was celebrated through hundreds of different projects, museum exhibitions, TV programmes, coins, stamps and even tea parties! Clearly this is a story that still matters to many people. Over the next five lessons, we are going to be trying to tell that story: What’s the story of the women’s suffrage campaign?

9. Activity 1: The story of the women’s suffrage campaign As early as 1832, a very few women were beginning to demand the right to vote. But it was not until the 1860s that there were any organised campaigns for the vote. From the very start, these campaigns faced a big challenge: Who is the only group of people that can give women the vote? Can women make them give them the vote? Why not? So, how can they persuade them? What are the likely advantages/disadvantages of each approach?

10. What’s the story of the women’s suffrage campaign? Activity 2: Timeline of women’s suffrage, 1866–1928 Your challenge is to try to work out the story of how women won the vote using only a timeline. • Tasks: • Draw a smiley face to show how sympathetic the government’s responses were. • Use a scale 1–5 to show how violent the tactics of the campaigners were. • Use one colour to highlight actions by the NUWSS and another to colour actions by the WSPU. • Use your timeline to complete the story outline.

11. What’s the story of the women’s suffrage campaign? Plenary: Use your timeline to answer the question, ‘How did women win the vote?’