Enquiry 4 Why do historians have different views of the suffrage movement?

1. Enquiry 4Why do historians have different views of the suffrage movement?

2. Enquiry overview Lesson 1: The suffrage debate Activity: The historian’s craft Outcome activity: Write a paragraph mentioning all of the interpretations and consider what evidence they were drawing on and what their priorities and areas of focus were.

3. Lesson 1The suffrage debate

4. Lesson 1 overview • Content covered in the lesson: • Headlines about the suffrage debate (2018). • Spotlight on four historians: Purvis, Gottlieb, Riddell, Robinson. • Summing up the arguments. • Outcome activity: The historian’s craft.

5. Headlines about the suffrage debate Q:When do you think these headlines were written?

6. Spotlight on four historians Q: Read through the extract from each historian. Identify and highlight key words or phrases that are being used to describe the suffragettes, the suffragists or both. Q: Try to sum up the argument of each historian in a single sentence. Q: Use your own knowledge to identify pieces of evidence that you think support the argument being made by your historian. Q: See if you have included all the evidence mentioned on the evidence sheet. Professor June Purvis Dr Julie Gottlieb Dr Fern Riddell Jane Robinson

7. Summing up the arguments Q: Present your findings to the rest of the class and explain how the pieces of evidence you have selected support the interpretation of your historian. Q: If every other group has used the same piece of evidence that you have used, highlight it on your sheet. If no other group has used a piece of evidence that you have used, highlight it in a different colour. Professor June Purvis Dr Julie Gottlieb Dr Fern Riddell Jane Robinson

8. Why do historians have different views of the suffrage movement? Outcome activity: The historian’s craft What are the views of current historians of the suffrage movement? Your challenge is to try to work out how the provenance of their work influences their interpretations of the suffrage movement. • Tasks: • Why have some of these historians used the same pieces of evidence in very different ways? How might the focus of their work have influenced what evidence they engaged with? • How might their wider experience and research interests have affected their interpretation of the suffrage movement? • How might the specific context of the work the extract was from have influenced their interpretation? • If you asked each historian to sum up their view of the suffrage movement in a single sentence, how would they answer? • Write a sentence for each historian.

9. Why do historians have different views of the suffrage movement? Plenary: Write an extended answer to the enquiry question. Mention all of the interpretations and consider what evidence each was drawing on and what their priorities and areas of focus were.