Activities

This enquiry seeks to introduce students to a more complicated narrative of the women’s suffrage campaign than they might typically encounter in the history classroom or in popular representations. The enquiry explores how different narratives of the women’s suffrage campaign emerged and how these have evolved in light of new...

This enquiry explores the varying reasons why suffrage campaigners wanted to achieve votes for women from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. The lessons are designed for use with Key Stage 3 students and may be adapted for use with Key Stage 4.  Key learning points What the different groups campaigning for women’s...

This enquiry encourages students to assess the significance of different campaigners for female suffrage through focusing on the creation of commemorative statues. The enquiry begins by studying the new statues of Emmeline Pankhurst in Manchester and Alice Hawkins in Leicester to help students draw out the criteria for why people...

This is a mini-enquiry designed for use at A-level exploring current interpretations by historians working on the suffrage movement. It will also look at the relationship between their interpretations and the evidence with which they are working. Its aim is to introduce students to current debates about the suffrage movement...

When we study the fight for female suffrage, we often focus on the ideas and actions of the suffragettes and the WSPU, sometimes forgetting the half-century before of suffragist activity. We also tend to think of the population at the time being split in two – male and female. Of...

Often, it is local history that inspires students. This enquiry seeks to fix a study of Votes for Women in their own locality. This does mean quite a bit of work for the teacher. There may well be no consolidated story of suffrage in your particular area, so research is...

This enquiry gives students the opportunity to explore the suffrage campaign on a local scale, through the lens of one specific, important city – Bristol. Using a range of evidence, students will look in detail at events in Bristol and then compare it to the ‘textbook’ version of events, looking...

This sequence of lessons is appropriate for addressing the relevant requirements of the National Curriculum for Citizenship on parliamentary democracy, voting and elections, justice, liberty and equality, as well as how citizens today take positive democratic action. The lessons draw on the historical context of the struggle for women’s equality...