Suffragettes: Deeds not words (Key stage 5)
Documents
- Document: CRIM 1/149/ 3
Advertisements taken from editions of ‘The Suffragette’ newspaper, published on 26th December 1913, and 2nd January 1914
- Document: CRIM 1/139/2
Letter written by Emmeline Pankhurst to members of WSPU, 10th January 1913, outlining the case for militancy
- Document: HO 45/10700/236973
Article from ‘Morning Post’, 8th May 1913
- Document: HO 45/10700/236973
Article from ‘The Times’, 1st May 1913
- Document: CRIM 1/149/3
Article about militancy, taken from ‘The Suffragette’, 2nd January 1914
Resources
Preparation activity
Students must have completed this activity before the workshop, as they will be discussing their work during the session.
Give students a copy of the advertisements and the two newspaper articles. Ask them to use the worksheet to support their study of the documents. This work will help to form the basis for discussion in the workshop.
The workshop
The workshop will begin with an introduction to the National Archives, and a brief explanation of what we do and keep here.
The education officer will then lead a discussion about the advertisements published in editions of ‘The Suffragette’ newspaper from the years 1913 and 1914. Students will be asked to consider the readership of this paper and whether or not it can be used as a reliable indication of the type of women who became Suffragettes.
The second part of the videoconference considers the militant tactics of the Suffragettes, and whether or not these tactics were a help or a hindrance to their cause. Students will investigate the authorities' response to militancy, by studying photographs and correspondence taken from Metropolitan Police files. They will then go on to investigate the Suffragettes' arguments for militancy through the study of a letter written by Emmeline Pankhurst to members of the WSPU in January 1913, and through media accounts of Suffragette actions.
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Knowledge, skills and understanding
This workshop enables students to meet subject criteria for history in the following ways:
- Explore the significance of events, individuals, issues and societies in history
- Develop their interest in and enthusiasm for studying history by raising their awareness of the opportunities available for researching original documents in archives
- Understand the nature of historical evidence and the methods used by historians in analysis and evaluation
- Assessing the significance of events, individuals, attitudes, ideas and beliefs in their historical context
- Getting hands on experience at using original historical sources of different kinds
- Analysing, evaluating and interpreting original historical sources in their historical context through a series of structured research activities
- Communicating clear, concise and logical arguments substantiated by relevant evidence in discussion and debate with the Education Officer leading the workshop
Examination board specification
Edexcel AS specification
Unit 1, option d - 'Votes for Women, c. 1880-1918'
http://www.edexcel.org.uk/VirtualContent/48534/GCE_History_syllabus2006_Final_Version.pdf
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