1. GCSE History - Paper Two (Britain 1906-1918)
1 hour and 30 mins
30% of your final grade
There will be no fewer than five and no more than seven questions set on a range of source material taken from the British Depth Study
All questions are compulsory
You will be expected to use your contextual knowledge to help you comprehend, interpret, evaluate and use the sources and historical interpretations and representations you are given

2. GCSE History - Paper Two (Britain 1906-1918)
Three main topics, of which they are likely to only ask about one
The Liberal Reforms 1906 – 1918 (unlikely to come up this year, because it was asked last year)
Britain in the First World War 1914 – 18
The campaign for votes for women

3. How did women gain the right to vote?
Aim: To revise key details about the battle for women’s suffrage
A revision presentation from

4. Votes for women?
Arguments For
Arguments Against

5. Women’s Campaign Groups
Over the next few pages are statements about the two different women’s campaign groups.
See if you can remember whether the statement describes the suffragettes or the suffragists.

6. Women’s Campaign Groups
The Suffragists
The Suffragettes
Also called the NUWSS
(National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies)

7. Women’s Campaign Groups
The Suffragists
The Suffragettes
Also called the WSPU
(Women’s Social and Political Union)

8. Women’s Campaign Groups
The Suffragists
The Suffragettes
Led by
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst

9. Women’s Campaign Groups
The Suffragists
The Suffragettes
Led by
Mrs Millicent Fawcett

10. Women’s Campaign Groups
The Suffragists
The Suffragettes
Used peaceful campaigning

11. Women’s Campaign Groups
The Suffragists
The Suffragettes
Used radical and militant methods

12. The Suffragettes Click here to watch the clip.
It may take a couple of minutes to download.

13. Reactions to the Suffragettes
The next slide shows a cartoon drawn in reaction to the suffragettes.
What does it show
What does it suggest about the artist’s opinion of suffragettes?
Who do you think drew it?
Why?

14. Reactions to the Suffragettes

15. 1911 Conciliation Bill
The government promised to “conciliate” (make peace) by introducing votes for women
It got an enormous majority…
…but was then dropped!

16. Suffragist response
Try to persuade the Prime Minister to change his mind
Support the Labour Party at the new election
Organise a march from Carlisle to London
Offer free membership to all women
All of the above

17. Suffragette response Escalated their campaign of violence
All of the above

18. Suffragette response

19. s
Drawing of a force-feeding published in the Suffragette magazine, 1909

20. The Temporary Discharge of Prisoner’s Act (1913)
This meant that prisoners who were weak from hunger striking could be released from prison
When they were stronger, they were re-arrested and brought back to prison to finish their sentence

21. Emily Davison Wanted to publicise the suffragettes
Tried to pin a flag on the King’s horse at the Derby at Epsom racecourse
She was killed in the collision

22. Emily Davison
An extreme protest to martyr herself for the suffragettes?
A publicity stunt that went terribly wrong?

23. How effective were the suffragettes?
They had raised the public profile of the issue
The government only started taking the issue seriously after militancy started
Increasing violence reduced support
Supported the view that women were irrational
If the government gave in violence here, what other violence might happen
Would Ireland mount violent protests for Home Rule?

24. How effective were the suffragettes?
Vote on a scale of 1-10

25. Women in WW1
When war broke out, both suffragettes and suffragists suspended their campaigns for the vote
They began actively trying to recruit men for the army
white feather, etc.
As more and more men went to war, industry began to suffer a shortage of workers

26. Women in WW1 In which order did women enter “men’s” jobs?
Munitions factories
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Women’s Land Army
Office jobs

27. Women in WW1 In which order did women enter “men’s” jobs?
D. Office jobs
A. Munitions factories
C. Women’s Land Army
B. Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps

28. Women in WW1 Women began working in offices
Industry was reluctant at first to take on women
Did they have the skills?
Unions feared that women would be cheaper, and so men would be too expensive when they returned

29. Women in WW1 By 1916, the number of industrial workers was desperate
More and more munitions and supplies needed at the front
Less and less men working in factories, because they’d all joined the army

30. Women in WW1 Women began working in munitions factories
By the end of the war almost 800,000 women were working in them
They proved they were just as skilled and capable as men

31. Women in WW1
As the war went on, more women started to work in “men’s” jobs
Bus conductors, postal workers, etc.
Women’s Land Army
A kind of social revolution was taking place

32. (Some) women get the vote…
In 1918 the Representation of the People Act was passed
Older and/or richer women were given the vote
Younger, working-class women may still have been too “radical”
All women got the vote in 1928