HIS310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Barbara Bodichon, Emmeline Pankhurst, French Third Republic
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Getting the right to vote and voicing our opinions in society. Women"s social and political union (wspu) are suffragettes leading militant organization campaigning for women"s suffrage in great britain, 1903 1917. Its membership and policies were tightly controlled by emmeline pankhurst and her daughters christabel and sylvia. Emmeline pankhurst & bodichon will be our main focus today. By the end of class students will be able to: Identify at least two women in the fight for female suffrage. Connect historical context and primary source materials to explain what the. Assess how the suffrage campaign challenged and changed women"s standing in british society. Extension of the right to vote to a larger portion of the population. Most often associated with the avocation of women"s right to vote, or political enfranchisement. Belle poque from roughly 1880 to 1914. It is conventionally dated from the end of the franco-prussian war in 1871 to the outbreak of world war i in around 1914.
