Timeline

Question 1

1897

Answer 1

NUWSS is formed by Millicent Fawcett

Question 2

When were the suffragists formed?

Answer 2

1897

Question 3

1903

Answer 3

WSPU was formed by the Pankhurst

Question 4

When was the WSPU formed?

Answer 4

1903

Question 5

1905

Answer 5

Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney demonstrate at a Liberal Meeting

Question 6

When did Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney demonstrate at a Liberal Meeting?

Answer 6

1905

Question 7

1906

Answer 7

• Liberals win landslide victory and come to power

- Bannerman supports votes for women, but MPs are still divided

Question 8

When did the Liberals win a landslide victory?

Answer 8

1906

Question 9

IN what year did Bannerman support votes for women, but MPs were still divided?

Answer 9

1906

Question 10

October 1906

Answer 10

• NUWSS Petition

- WSPU begin to noisily oppose MPs and arrests occur

Question 11

In what year did the WSPU begin to noisily oppose MPs, leading to arrests?

Answer 11

October 1906

Question 12

1908

Answer 12

Mud March

Question 13

In what year was the mud march?

Answer 13

1908

Question 14

July 1908

Answer 14

• Asquith becomes PM and is against votes for women but tells women to prove themselves
• Anti suffrage league is formed

Question 15

When did Asquith become PM?

Answer 15

July 1908

Question 16

When was the Anti Suffrage league formed?

Answer 16

July 1908

Question 17

Late 1908

Answer 17

WSPU and NUWSS split because Suffragists worry that Suffragette violence damages cause

Question 18

In what year the the WSPU and the NUWSS split?

Answer 18

Late 1908

Question 19

1909

Answer 19

WSPU start hunger strikes and government responds with force feeding

Question 20

In what year did the WSPU start hunger strikes?

Answer 20

1909

Question 21

1910

Answer 21

• Violence stops when Asquith promises to produce the conciliation bill giving women the right to vote after a petition with 250 000 signatures.
• Asquith soon begins to stall.
• Huge female protest on Black Friday

Question 22

When was Black Friday?

Answer 22

18th November 1910

Question 23

When did Asquith stall on the conciliation bill?

Answer 23

1910

Question 24

1911

Answer 24

• WPSU call for an end to the violence, hoping that Asquith will be passed but Asquith stalls again.
• A new bill is instead introduced that gives more men the vote
• WSPU is furious and restarts violence

Question 25

When did the the WSPU call for an end to the black Friday violence hoping that the conciliation bill would be passed?

Answer 25

1911

Question 26

When was a different bill introduced that gave more men the vote instead?

Answer 26

1911

Question 27

1912

Answer 27

- WSPU starts a massive campaign of window smashing - Leaders of WSPU are arrested and their HQ is raided. - Christabel Pankhurst flees to Paris - Mass hinger strikes and force feeding increases

Question 28

When did the WSPU's campaign of window smashing start?

Answer 28

1912

Question 29

When were the leaders of the WSPU arrested?

Answer 29

1912

Question 30

When did Christabel Pankhurst flee to Paris?

Answer 30

1912

Question 31

1913

Answer 31

- Violence increases: buildings bombed, letters burned in boxes, golf courses defaced etc. - Cat and Mouse act introduced where hunger strikers were released from prison and rearrested later

Question 32

When was the cat and mouse act?

Answer 32

1913

Question 33

When did golf courses start to be defaced and letter boxes start to be burnt?

Answer 33

1913

Question 34

June 1913

Answer 34

- Emily Davison kills herself at the Derby - NUWSS tried to gain support peacefully through the women's pilgrimage where thousands of women marched to London from all over the UK to raise money.

Question 35

When did Emily Davison kill herself?

Answer 35

June 1913

Question 36

Where did Emily Davison kill herself?

Answer 36

The Derby Races

Question 37

1914

Answer 37

- WSPU violence increases - Public firmly against WSPU and women banned from art galleries after 'Slasher Mary" - War stops all NUWSS and WSPU activities - WSPU prisoners released

Question 38

When were women banned from art galleries and museums?

Answer 38

1914

Question 39

When did the war start?

Answer 39

1914

Question 40

1915

Answer 40

- WSPU organises the 'right to serve march' | - NUWSS sets up a women's employment register to get women working

Question 41

1916

Answer 41

- Women included in discussions about their voting | - Lloyd George becomes PM and supports votes for women

Question 42

When did Lloyd George become PM?

Answer 42

1916

Question 43

What did Lloyd George support?

Answer 43

Votes for women

Question 44

1917

Answer 44

Bill passed that women should get the right to vote

Question 45

When was a bill passed that women should get the right to vote?

Answer 45

1917

Question 46

1918

Answer 46

Vote given to women over 30 but not to young women

Question 47

When were women over 30 finally given the vote?

Answer 47

1918

Question 48

When was the end of the war?

Answer 48

1918