Project ID: 793
| Description | Suffragettes or Suffragists? the campaign for women's franchise. Millicent Fawcett's National Union of Suffrage Societies (1897) advocated peaceful means of protest like leafletting and petitions, whereas the Pankhursts' Womens' Social and Political Union (1903), favoured violent tactics like hunger strikes and damage to property. Historians are divided as to which methods led to success in 1918. |
| Topics | Social history Talks |
| Type | U3A-led research (not an SLP) |
| U3A | Medway U3A |
| Year started | 2018 |
| Source of reference | Talk given at London Summer School, Bridewell, 2018 |
| Notes | Willing to give this talk to other U3As |