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Enquiry 6a What’s the story of ‘Votes for Women’ in my local area?

Explore the suffrage movement in your area, analyzing key figures, local activities, and impact. Delve into historical databases, newspapers, and current stories to piece together the narrative of Votes for Women.

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Enquiry 6a What’s the story of ‘Votes for Women’ in my local area?

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  1. Enquiry 6aWhat’s the story of ‘Votes for Women’ in my local area?

  2. Enquiry overview Lesson 1: What can we discover about ‘Votes for Women’ in my area? Lesson 2: Who was important in my area? Lesson 3: Which was more influential in my area – NUWSS or WSPU? Lesson 4: What was the impact of the campaign in my area? Outcome activity: Consider how similar/different the local campaign was to the rest of the country and the impact that it had on the location itself.

  3. Lesson 1What can we discover about ‘Votes for Women’ in my area?

  4. Lesson 1 overview • Content covered in the lesson: • What can we tell from those who signed the 1866 petition in the local area? • Case study: Lincolnshire women who signed the 1866 petition. • Local suffrage activities 1866–1914. • Using local newspapers, photographs and postcards as sources.

  5. Who were the women who signed the 1866 petition? A project led by historians Dr Sarah Richardson and Tara Morton at the University of Warwick is compiling a database of women involved from 1866 onwards in campaigning to get women the vote. Now it is your turn to look at some of these women. Five women from Lincolnshire signed the petition. Q:What can we discover about the women who signed the 1866 petition?

  6. How did it get started? In 1866, MP John Stuart Mill presented the first ever mass petition to Parliament, signed by 1,521 women asking for the vote. Five of these women are connected with Lincolnshire. They appear in the database.

  7. Who were these women connected with Lincolnshire who signed the 1866 petition? Search by ‘Birth Region’: Jessie Boucherett, Joan Guthrie Search by ‘Petition Region’: Jessie Boucherett, Mrs Louisa Boucherett; Miss Louisa Boucherett; Susan Davies Q:What can we discover about these women from the database? Q: What else can we discover about these women elsewhere? Q: Were they rich or poor? Educated or not? Working or not?

  8. What can we discover about ‘Votes for Women’ in my area? Activity: What were their motives? Your challenge is to study details from the database of the women connected with Lincolnshire who signed the 1866 petition and answer these questions • Questions: • This woman’s connection with Lincolnshire is… • This woman might have signed the 1866 petition because… • I think this because…

  9. Drawing conclusions Q:What sort of women in Lincolnshire seemed to have signed the 1866 petition? Q:What do they have in common?

  10. What can we discover about ‘Votes for Women’ in my area? Activity: Was Lincolnshire typical? • Tasks: • In groups, select other towns and cities from the database. • Explore the people who signed the 1866 petition in that town. • Feed back to the group – how does your town differ from Lincolnshire? • As a group, try to decide whether Lincolnshire’s response was typical. • Do we have enough information to be able to draw valid conclusions? Your challenge is to study details from the database of the women who signed the 1866 petition and answer these questions:

  11. What can we discover from local newspapers?

  12. What can we discover from local newspapers? And one current story: ‘A suffragette from Grantham is set to be honoured with a blue plaque.’ Mary Ann Rawle is being recognised a century after some women finally gained the right to vote. Born in Lancashire in 1878, she later moved to Grantham. She was a friend of the Pankhurst family, who gave her a brooch after she’d spent time in Holloway Prison for striking a police officer. Mary was the founder member of the Grantham branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. She also stood, nationally and locally, as a Labour Party candidate. Mary died in 1964 – she is buried in Grantham Cemetery on Harrowby Road. The plaque will be unveiled on Saturday 13 October at Westgate Hall. BBC News, Lincolnshire, 3 October 2018

  13. What can we discover from postcards and photographs?

  14. What can we discover from photographs and postcards? Open-air suffragette meeting, Cornhill, Lincoln, October 1908. (See reference to Nottingham Journal, 9 October 1908.)

  15. What can we discover about ‘Votes for Women’ in my area? Plenary: So, what’s the story? • Write the story of suffrage activity in your local area. • What have you discovered? • Can you ‘tell’ the story of ‘Votes for Women’ from the evidence? • Are there any omissions? Or are there any contradictions? • Is there enough detail to tell a convincing story? • How do historians select which stories to tell?

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