womens suffrage

HISTORY COURSEWORK


1) A campaign for woman’s suffrage developed in the years after 1870 because Britain was changing.

The industrial revolution gave women a taste of freedom, by giving them new jobs, skills and employment opportunities and after this taste women did not want to give it up. The industrial revolution split the country up into three classes, working, middle and upper class. Women in the middle class were the biggest campaigners for woman’s suffrage because they had the time, knowledge and money to write organise and campaign for votes for women.

The industrial revolution had a big part to play in women’s enfranchisement. To many the industrial revolution meant changing times and changing attitudes, and during WW1 this was true, men were out in the field fighting for their country and back home women were dressing in men’s clothes and doing the men’s jobs in the factories making shells etc, but once the war had ended things would change.

Before ...