World of Art Global Vintage Anti-Suffragette Propaganda 'Don't Marry A Suffragette', circa. 1905-1918, Reproduction 200gsm A3 Classic Vintage Suffragette Poster

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The speaker also stated that in a recent canvas by postcard, of the 200 odd women in East Grinstead, they found that 80 did not want the vote, 40 did want the vote and the remainder would not sufficiently interested in replying.Lady Musgrave, President of the East Grinstead branch of the Anti-Suffragette League said she was strongly against the franchise being extended to women, for she did not think it would do any good whatsoever, and in sex interests, would do a lot of harm. She quoted the words of Lady Jersey: "Put not this additional burden upon us." Women were not equal to men in endurance or nervous energy, and she thought she might say, on the whole, in intellect. (4) A meeting of the Anti-Suffrage Society was reported in the East Grinstead Observer on 3rd June 1911.

Women’s suffrage and government control 1906-1922: papers from the Cabinet, Home Office and Metropolitan Police files in the Public Record Office (Adam Matthew Publications, 2000)Edexcel – A Level History: Protest, Agitation and Parliamentary Reform in Britain c1780-1928: The Women’s Social and Political Union. What was the degree of support for the movement amongst the public? Did it cross all classes? [Sources: working class female workers participation, middle class female supporters]

Key stage 1 & 3 teachers may prefer to work with selected documents or extracts from the collection and/or use the material for their own research. The material from the ‘Illustrated London News’ is highly accessible, in particular the source entitled: ‘From pavement-chalking to arson, window-breaking and bombing: the progress of Militant Suffragism’, 24 May 1913. This contains over 25 photographs and a chronology. Also ‘the Women’s Suffrage Pilgrimage map’ which shows the extent of national protest and peaceful campaign methods is an interesting visual source. With this, we have made available, an interactive map with photographs to compliment it. Again the samples of suffragette ‘message codes’ used to conceal their activities are provided in this collection. Younger pupils could be tasked to write their own messages using the code words. Emily Davison is referred to in the Key Stage 1 curriculum. We provide a source describing how she hid overnight in Parliament. Cabinet Office (CAB) – discussions about the suffrage movement at the top level of government (see section 3.1)

Certain government departments were involved in managing the response to the suffrage movement. You can search within records created by these departments by using the associated department code reference in Discovery advanced search. Nowadays we take marketing for granted, but it was first used politically by the W.S.P.U, who created their campaign as a brand. There were well-designed logos, stylish exhibitions, spectacular processions and meetings in London and the major cities. Special colours represented the movement, purple, white and green for freedom, purity, and hope respectively. Supporters wore the colours and they were used on badges, bicycles, chocolate bars, cakes, jewelry and even a motor-car.

In an article that appeared in The Times on 27th February, 1909, Ward wrote: "Women's suffrage is a more dangerous leap in the dark than it was in the 1860s because of the vast growth of the Empire, the immense increase of England's imperial responsibilities, and therewith the increased complexity and risk of the problems which lie before our statesmen - constitutional, legal, financial, military, international problems - problems of men, only to be solved by the labour and special knowledge of men, and where the men who bear the burden ought to be left unhampered by the political inexperience of women." Anti-suffragette postcard (1909) The National Archives holds records of central government and the major courts of law. Our collection is a rich source of information about the government’s response to militant activities and civil disobedience such as destruction of property, tax evasion and census boycotts.Why was it so important for the suffragettes to be viewed as political prisoners? [sources: photographs, prison document on treatment of prisoners, leaders’ statements] The visible historical discourse that surrounds ‘the woman question’, and more specifically speaking, the acquisition of the women’s right to vote, most frequently evokes the question from the Suffragette or the Suffragist point of view. Articles, books, photographs and exhibits centre on the unrelenting combat waged for sexual equality, the vote on the ‘same terms as men’. A recent exhibit has revealed the photos taken by the police of the Suffragettes in prison. Search Discovery using keywordsalong with department code referencesMEPO for the Metropolitan Police, PCOM for the Prison Commission and HO for the Home Office. Use these departmentcodes in the ‘search for or within references’ fields, along with akeyword and dates (if you wish)in the appropriate fields.