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Enquiry 6b How effective was the ‘Votes for Women’ campaign in Bristol?

Explore the effectiveness and impact of the "Votes for Women" campaign in Bristol, examining key lessons and activities related to the campaign in the 1860s-1914. Analyze the motives, similarities, and differences in the Bristol campaign compared to the rest of the country and its impact on the city.

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Enquiry 6b How effective was the ‘Votes for Women’ campaign in Bristol?

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  1. Enquiry 6bHow effective was the ‘Votes for Women’ campaign in Bristol?

  2. Enquiry overview Lesson 1: Why did some women in Bristol want the vote in 1866? Lesson 2: How effective was the campaign in the 1870s and 1880s? Lesson 3: How was the campaign re-invigorated after 1897? Lesson 4: How active and successful were suffragists and suffragettes in Bristol 1897–1914? Outcome activity: Consider how similar/different the Bristol campaign was to the rest of the country and the impact that it had on Bristol itself.

  3. Lesson 1Why did some women in Bristol want the vote in 1866?

  4. Lesson 1 overview • Content covered in the lesson: • The 1866 petition to Parliament. • Using the Suffrage Database. • The 30 women from Bristol and Bath who signed the petition: their background, activities and motives. • Was Bristol typical?

  5. Who were the Bristol women who signed the petition in 1866? Q:What can we discover about the women of Bristol and Bath who signed the 1866 petition? A project led by historians Dr Sarah Richardson and Tara Morton at the University of Warwick is compiling a database of women involved from 1866 onwards in campaigning to get women the vote. Now it is your turn to look at some of these women. 30 of them from Bristol and Bath signed the petition.

  6. How did it get started? In 1866, MP John Stuart Mill presented the first ever mass petition to Parliament, signed by 1,521 women asking for the vote. 30 of these women are connected with Bristol and Bath. They appear in the database.

  7. Who were these women connected with Bristol and Bath who signed the 1866 petition? Agnes Beddoe Frances Power Cobbe Lilias Ashworth Hallett

  8. Amelia Edwards Florence Davenport Hill Other Bristol signers in 1866 The Priestman sisters Susanna Winkworth

  9. How effective was the ‘Votes for Women’ campaign in Bristol? Activity: What were their motives? Your challenge is to study details from the database of the women connected with Bristol who signed the 1866 petition and answer these questions: • Questions: • This woman’s connection with Bristol is… • This woman might have signed the 1866 petition because… • I think this because…

  10. Drawing conclusions Q:What sort of women in Bristol seemed to have signed the 1866 petition? Q:What do they have in common? Q:Why do you think this petition was not successful?

  11. How effective was the ‘Votes for Women’ campaign in Bristol? Activity 2 and Plenary: Was Bristol typical? • Write the story of suffrage activity in your local area. • What have you discovered? • Can you ‘tell’ the story of ‘Votes for Women’ from the evidence? • Are there any omissions? Or are there any contradictions? • Is there enough detail to tell a convincing story? • How do historians select which stories to tell?

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