Resources
Access a variety of podcasts, film, articles and case studies of suffrage campaigners to support subject knowledge for both teachers and students, covering the history of women at the hustings from the 17th century right up to questions of citizenship and equality today. There are also a number of fully resourced history enquiries and citizenship activities in the Activities section.
Parliament and the Suffrage Movement
The problem facing all the campaigns for women’s suffrage was that they couldn’t make the all-male members of Parliament give them the vote; they had to persuade them that it was the right thing to do.
1. Contemporary attitudes towards women
One fundamental difficulty that the campaigners had to overcome...
Suffrage Societies Database Guide
The database of suffrage campaigners features more than 40 different suffrage societies: from the well-known NUWSS and WSPU to smaller local organisations, trade affiliations and religious groups.
Suffrage database researcher Tara Morton outlines the different societies in the guidance below, with simplified and detailed versions available for students and teachers....
Suffragette aliases
Women who were involved in suffrage campaigning sometimes used false names or aliases, occasionally to protect their families from unfair treatment by those opposed to women’s suffrage, but most often by law-breaking suffragettes wishing to evade the police and confuse the authorities. Several suffragette aliases were known to the police and...
Useful links and online resources
Below are some links to online resources which we found useful when putting together the database and other materials for this website. If you have any suggestions for additional resources, please email suffrage@history.org.uk.
Women and politics from the 15th to 19th centuries
Women at the Polls in the 17th Century (History of...
