Suffragettes
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- Created on: 05-04-15 11:57
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- Suffragettes
- WSPU - formed in 1903
- Prime Ministers
- Asquith - 1908-1916 (Liberal)
- Campbell-Bannerman - 1905-1908 (Liberal)
- Balfour - 1902-1905 (Conservative)
- Lloyd George - 1916-1922 (Liberal)
- Bills
- Private Members' Bill - Banford Slack - Feb. 1905
- Women's Suffrage was deprioritised
- Conciliation Bill - passed first and second readings (twice)
- 109 votes in favour (good-progress) - 1910
- 255 to 88 votes in 1911
- Women's Suffrage Bill carried by 179 votes - 1908
- Private Members' Bill - Banford Slack - Feb. 1905
- Suffragette splits
- 1907 - Creation of Women's Freedom League ('social suffragists' wanted more power to the membership)
- 1912 - Pethick Lawrences split. Pankhursts wanted more militancy but PL did not
- 1914 - Sylvia's East London Federation separated from WSPU (allied with the Labour party, contrary to WSPU policy)
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