Key stage 5 teachers could break their class up into groups and ask students to feed back on the different documents and/or annotate them on a white board. Teachers may wish to print these out and discuss with the students before looking at the material. Here are some general guidance questions to help them evaluate and understand documents. Encourage students to interpret the records, spot inferences and try and detect any unwitting testimony. It is important that students recognise that the same document can serve as evidence for more than one line of enquiry. Have any of the documents in this selection surprised you, or altered your original perception of the suffragette movement?.What was the degree of support for the movement amongst the public? Did it cross all classes?.What personal stories of women involved in the movement are evident in these records? How do they explain women’s motivation for becoming involved and the sacrifices they were prepared to make?.Why was it so important for the suffragettes to be viewed as political prisoners?.
How did some politicians view the movement?.What methods were used by the police to detect suffragette activities?.How did the government respond to the movement?.How successful was the Suffragette movement in terms of marketing its campaign?.What tactics and types of protest were employed by the movement to draw attention to their cause?.These records support numerous lines enquiry on a range of significant themes. Please note that in many cases we have displayed the whole document and highlighted the extract we have chosen to transcribe. All documents are provided with transcripts. We hope that such a collection will offer teachers the flexibility to develop their own approaches and questions and differentiate student tasks.
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The sources include material from the Home Office, Metropolitan Police and prison files, the Women’s Social and Political Union office (W.S.P.U.) which were used as exhibits in the trial of Emmeline Pankhurst and other leaders, including their correspondence and the Suffragette newspaper. The purpose of this document collection is to make available to teachers and students a wide selection of documents relating to the suffragette movement.
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