Meet a Suffragette and find out more about how women campaigned for and achieved the vote.
This workshop encourages active participation through hands-on activities, role-play, object handling, costume, discussion and debate.
Pupils will explore the changing role of women in Britain during the 19th and early 20th centuries and meet the costumed character of Emily Wilding Davison, arguably the most militant of the Suffragettes.
They will consider the Victorian ideal of ‘The Angel in the House’ and how it affected society’s perceptions of gender roles both in public and private.
Pupils will reflect upon and consider the arguments for and against votes for women, how the WSPU and NUWSS differed in their campaigning, and whether political agitation helped or hindered their cause.
