Women’s Suffrage
Useful Links
BBC
Suffragette Archive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/suffragettes/
This links to a BBC archive collection of programmes which include accounts from women whose
part in the struggle would finally culminate in the 1918 Representation of the People Act and the
election of the first woman MP.
GCSE Bitesize: Votes for Women
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/britain/votesforwomenrev1.shtml
GCSE Bitesize: The women's suffrage movement
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/higher/history/britsuff/suffrage/revision/1/
History: Profile: Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 - 1928)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/pankhurst_emmeline.shtml
Learning Zone: Suffragettes - the battle for the vote for women
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/suffragettes-the-battle-for-the-vote-for-women/7173.html
Learning Zone: What inspired the Suffragettes?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/what-inspired-the-suffragettes/956.html
Learning Zone: Treatment of Suffragettes in prison
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/treatment-of-suffragettes-in-prison/959.html
Learning Zone: Did the Suffragists disapprove of the Suffragettes?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/did-the-suffragists-disapprove-of-the-suffragettes/957.html
Learning Zone: The difference between Suffragists and Suffragettes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-difference-between-suffragists-andsuffragettes/961.html
Learning Zone: How did the Suffragettes try to get their message heard?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/how-did-the-suffragettes-try-to-get-their-messageheard/958.html
Learning Zone: What was protest and imprisonment like for Suffragettes?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/what-was-protest-and-imprisonment-like-forsuffragettes/14243.html
Learning Zone: The death of Emily Davison
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-death-of-emily-davison/967.html
Time to Remember | The 1913 Derby
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/suffragettes/8317.shtml
Parliament UK
Archives: The Suffragettes
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/parliamentary-archives/archiveshighlights/archives-the-suffragettes/
Education Service: Suffrage Movement
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/education/docs/voting/voting-class-reader.pdf
Living Heritage: Founding of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies
(NUWSS), 1897
http://www.parliament.uk/about/livingheritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/unesco/nuwss-foundation/
Living Heritage: UNESCO Women's Suffrage documents
http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/unesco/
Living Heritage: Women and the Vote
http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/
The National Archives
Citizenship: Brave New World: Women’s Rights
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/brave_new_world/women.htm
Focus on Film: Suffragist rally in Hyde Park 1910
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/focuson/film/filmarchive/player.asp?catID=2&subCatID=2&filmID=4
Focus on Film: Suffragette Pageant in London 1908
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/focuson/film/filmarchive/player.asp?catID=2&subCatID=2&filmID=1
Focus on Film: Emily Davison killed at 1913 Derby
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/focuson/film/filmarchive/player.asp?catID=2&subCatID=2&filmID=3
The British Museum
Suffragette-defaced penny
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/cm/p/suffragettedefaced_penny.aspx