WSPU - from essays

Question 1

… NUWSS formed to reunite movement led by …

Answer 1

1897
Millicent Fawcett

Question 2

private member’s bills for women’s suffrage intro almost every year … but no bill ever passed

Answer 2

late 19th & early 20th centuries

Question 3

… Pankhursts founded WSPU

Answer 3

1903

Question 4

… (early) Women’s Suffrage Bill carried by … votes on 2nd reading

Answer 4

1909
35

Question 5

Conciliation Bills … & … carried by … & … votes respectively - staggering achievements

Answer 5

1910
1911
110
167

Question 6

Hyde Park meeting … attracted estimated … supporters

Answer 6

1908
250-500,000

Question 7

extensive use hunger striking after …

Answer 7

July 1909

Question 8

from … policies decided by unelected Central Committee dominated by E & C

Answer 8

1906

Question 9

… … & … WSPU members left to form rival Women’s Freedom League following E’s refuse intro more democratic structure

Answer 9

1907
Charlotte Despard & Teresa Billington-Grieg
1/5

Question 10

purged mod voices e.g. Frederick & Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence …

Answer 10

Oct 1912

Question 11

dissolution … of Males Soc & Pol U formed …

Answer 11

1912
1910

Question 12

failure Conciliation Bill … -> signif radicalisation WSPU strategy

Answer 12

1912

Question 13

‘war on the church’ = … arson attacks on Anglican churches

Answer 13

50

Question 14

(Votes for Women circulation … …)

Answer 14

33,000
1910

Question 15

… C made headlines disrupting Lib P meeting

Answer 15

1905

Question 16

… C organised window smashing campaigns

Answer 16

1911

Question 17

… … first hunger strike -> after … gov forced release to recover

Answer 17

1909
Marion Dunlop
91 hours

Question 18

… (Slasher Mary) vandalism against famous artworks = arrested … times & served … in prison

Answer 18

Mary Richardson
9
3 years

Question 19

Emily Wilding Davison first set fire postbox …, … killed at …

Answer 19

1906
1913
Epsom Derby

Question 20

… Suffrage Bill (intro by …) & carried by … votes 2nd reading but failed proceed as debate wasted time

Answer 20

1909
(MP Geoffrey Howard)
35

Question 21

… Conciliation Bill passed 2nd reading by … votes but Asquith prioritised gov business due … constitutional crisis -> … women attempted storm HofC ‘Black Friday’

Answer 21

1910
110
1910
300

Question 22

… Asquith announced opposition 2nd Conciliation Bill refusing grant further parliamentary time

Answer 22

May 1911

Question 23

… Franchise Bill invalidated -> WSPU most militant phase

Answer 23

1913

Question 24

num branches rose from … 1906 to … by …

Answer 24

3
122
1911

Question 25

(... Nat League for Opposing Women's Suffrage)

Answer 25

1910

Question 26

from ... Lib gov refused engage with suffrage campaigners

Answer 26

1905

Question 27

Home Sec ... = compromise would be 'exhibition of weakness in the face of these threats'

Answer 27

Herbert Gladstone

Question 28

Conciliation Bill ... Asquith negotiated deal Irish Nationalists - ... Irish MPs voted against bill -> Asquith's gov intro Franchise Bill ... focused enfranchising men

Answer 28

1912 71/74 1913

Question 29

LG home burned down ...

Answer 29

1913