Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Whilst Parliament was discussing the Conciliation Bill for the first time the WSPU agreed to suspend all militant activities & joined forces with the NUWSS to protest in favour of the Bill.
On Friday 18th November, the Government announced there was no time to debate the Bill further and that there would be no vote on the issue, until at least the next year.
The WSPU sent 300 members to Parliament Square to protest. They were met with a forceful response from the police, who violently arrested over 100 Suffragettes.
The incident became known as 'Black Friday' and the Suffragettes received sympathetic coverage form the press who were shocked at the violent response from the police.
Black Friday was a pre-cursor to the Suffragette wild period which lasted from 1912-14. During the wild period the WSPU increasingly became viewed as a 'terrorist' organisation and the suffragettes viewed as 'demented creatures'. By 1914 most of the WSPU leaders were either imprisoned or in hiding. The Wild Period also saw thousands leave the WSPU & join the NUWSS.
1. Describe what the suffragette 'wild period' was and when it took place.
2. In what ways did the 'wild period' damage the votes for women campaign.
3. Do the actions of the WSPU during the 'wild period' support the revisionist or traditional view of the NUWSS?
“I was surrounded and forced back on the chair. Whilst I was forced down, a tube was inserted into my nose. It was two yards long with a funnel at the end. The other end is placed in the nostril. The sensation is painful – the drums of my ears seemed to burst and there is a terrible pain in my throat and chest. The tube is pushed down twenty inches. The one holding the funnel end pours the liquid down – about a pint of milk mixed with eggs.
The feelings afterwards are of faintness and great pain. I was sick on the first occasion.”
1. What was the aim of the government in passing the Temporary Discharge Act?
2. Who benefited more from the Act? Explain your answer.
3. Why is it difficult to fully assess the impact of the Act?
Historiography = the views of historians and analysis of sources
Mary Clarke, Jean Hewart, Katherine Fry were among several Suffragettes who died as a result of force-feeding.
1. How do you think the public would have reacted to these deaths?
2. What problems could these deaths have caused for the government?
1. In what ways can it be argued that the WSPU damaged the positive work of the NUWSS? (R)
2. Explain why feminist historians believe the militant tactics of the WSPU to have been important? (T)
3. In what ways can it be argued that the Government was fearful of the WSPU by 1914? (T)
4. Which line of argument about the WSPU do you believe is most valid? Explain your answer.
.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/959.html
Revisionist
'the actions of the militants is ruinous'
Yes - the wild period damaged the campaign
Use the handout to complete the spider diagram
Primary
Lloyd George
(MP)
To begin with, ‘militancy’ meant heckling MP’s, holding demonstrations and causing damage to property.
However, the WSPU became increasingly militant. The years 1912-1914 are often referred to as their ‘wild period’ where they began attacking people as well as property.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/958.html