Year 8Why did so many people die

for the right to vote?

Why did British governments introduce the Bloody Code?

Change the description below to improve the accuracy of this account of the Bloody Code.

Law makers rightly worried about the rise in crime in the late

1600s and early 1700s. Pamphlets and newspapers reported

accurately what was happening. The government was forced to

act. Society was out of control. One group of new criminals who

had to be punished were poachers. They were stealing animals

that didn’t belong to them. MPs made poaching a capital offence

because they were trying to protect everyone in the country

from this crime wave. For the first time since the Romans, the

law makers had realised that harsh punishments could be used

to deter others from committing crime.

What happened on St. Peter’s field, 1819?

What do you think is happening in this scene?

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Why were people so angry about elections in the 1830s?

2019 election results for each of the constituencies that Delta Secondary Academies are based in.Highlight the winners of each constituency.

Constituency

Candidates Political Party

Votes won

Bassetlaw Brendan Clarke-SmithKeir MorrisonDebbie SolomanHelen Tamblyn-Saville

ConservativeLabourBrexitLib Dem

28,07814,0655,3663,332

Barnsley Central

Iftikhar AhmedVictoria Felton

ConservativeBrexit

7,89211,233

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Cut them down, don’t be afraid, they are not armed, courage my boys, and you shall have a vote of thanks, and he that kills most shall be made a knight and your exploits shall live for ever in a song.

Shame, shame, murder, murder.

Oh pray sir, don’t kill mummy, she only came to see Mr Hunt.

Tom HeyesDan JarvisWill SapwellRyan WilliamsDonald Wood

GreenLabourLib DemYorkshireIndependent

90014,8041,176

710188

Brigg and Goole

Jo BakerDavid DobbieMajid KhanAndrew Percy

GreenLib DemLabourConservative

1,2812,1809,000

30,941Dewsbury Simon Cope

Mark EastwoodPhilip JamesPaula SheriffJohn RossingtonSir Archibald Stanton

GreenConservativeBrexitLabourLib DemMonster Raving Loony

1,06026,1791,874

24,6182,406

252

Don Valley Mark AlcockCaroline FlintNick FletcherChris HolmesKate NeedhamPaul Whitehurst

Lib DemLabourConservativeYorkshireGreenBrexit

1,90715,97919,609

823872

6,247Elmet and Rothwell

Matthew CloverStewart GoltonDavid NagleAlec ShelbrookePenny Stables

YorkshireLib DemLabourConservativeGreen

1,1965,155

16,37333,7261,775

Great Grimsby

Ian BarfieldChristopher BarkerLoyd EmmersonLia NiciMelanie OnnNigel Winn

Lib DemBrexitGreenConservativeLabourIndependent

1.0702,378

51418.15010,819

156Hull West and Hessle

Scott BellMichelle DewberryEmma HardyMike LammimanDavid Nolan

ConservativeBrexitLabourGreenLib Dem

10,5285,638

13,38450

1,756Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford

Yvette CooperDeneice Florence-JukesTom GordonAndrew LeeLaura Walker

LabourBrexitLib DemConservativeYorkshire

18,2978,0323,147

17,0211,762

Scunthorpe Nic DakinPeter DenningtonRyk DownesJerry GormanHolly Mumby-Croft

LabourGreenLib DemBrexitConservative

13,855670875

2,04420,306

Stockton South

Brendan DevlinJohn PrescottMatt VickersPaul Williams

Lib DemBrexitConservativeLabour

2,3382,196

27,76422,504

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Keep a tally of how many MPs win for each party.BrexitConservativeGreenLabourLiberal DemocratMonster Raving LoonyYorkshire(Independent)

Add up how many votes each party gets.BrexitConservativeGreenLabourLiberal DemocratMonster Raving LoonyYorkshire(Independent)

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A: A cartoon from 1830 entitled ‘How to get an MP’.

B: The inside of a factory in Leeds, early 1800s

How significant

was the ‘Great Reform Act’ of 1832?

Was Britain on the verge of a Revolution in 1831?

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C: On the left, the city of Bradford which elected 0 MPs; on the right, the village of Dunwich which elected 1 MP.

The French Revolution of 1789 had been playing on the minds of British politicians since it had happened. In France, the King, Queen and many nobles had been executed. But so too had ordinary people, around 17,000 people were sent to the guillotine. The government of Britain did not want that happening to them.

By 1831, food prices and unemployment were on the rise. There were protest meetings happening all over the country. Some of these meeting had been turning into riots. These protestors targeted influential men who were against changing the electoral system. For example, the Duke of Newcastle was attacked in his home. The Duke of Newcastle was known to bribe people into voting the way he told them to and he would have people thrown out of their homes if they didn’t. The rioters who attacked his home were stopped by soldiers. 12 men were killed and over 100 were wounded. Many of those arrested were sentenced to death or transportation.

Many members of House of Lords were against changing the electoral system. For example, the famous military commander, the Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo, believed that reforms would ruin the country. Protestors stoned his house in 1831 and shouted ‘Bonaparte for ever’.

1. Skim read and highlight any terms you don’t know.

2. Re-read and summarise the main points of each paragraph.

The Great Reform Act, 1832Significant – it improved the

electoral systemNot significant – it didn’t resolve

problems with the electoral system

Significant - Historical arguments in favour

Not significant – historical arguments against

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The French Revolution of 1789 had been playing on the minds of British politicians since it had happened. In France, the King, Queen and many nobles had been executed. But so too had ordinary people, around 17,000 people were sent to the guillotine. The government of Britain did not want that happening to them.

By 1831, food prices and unemployment were on the rise. There were protest meetings happening all over the country. Some of these meeting had been turning into riots. These protestors targeted influential men who were against changing the electoral system. For example, the Duke of Newcastle was attacked in his home. The Duke of Newcastle was known to bribe people into voting the way he told them to and he would have people thrown out of their homes if they didn’t. The rioters who attacked his home were stopped by soldiers. 12 men were killed and over 100 were wounded. Many of those arrested were sentenced to death or transportation.

Many members of House of Lords were against changing the electoral system. For example, the famous military commander, the Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo, believed that reforms would ruin the country. Protestors stoned his house in 1831 and shouted ‘Bonaparte for ever’.

What can Gentleman Jack teach us about Victorian attitudes?

How effective we re the NUWSS?

C ontext

The ‘Great’ Reform Act of 1832 had disappointed many people as it only resulted in wealthy men living in cities being added to the franchise. A number of groups formed to campaign for further rights. These

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24th July 1824Dinner at 8.  Good trout – bad mutton chops – old peas, new potatoes sent up in bad butter, bad gooseberry tart, not good bread and vilely bad water.  I could not drink it and had a large basin of boiled milk.

people became known as the Chartists in reform to the Great Charter of 1832, which they wanted to be included in. Further electoral reforms were made over the 19th Century and gradually more men were given the opportunity to vote. But it wasn’t until the Reform Act of 1884-5 that there was a substantial increase in the number of men who were allowed to vote. The SuffragistsWhilst many men and women campaigned together for the vote, women were being left out of the franchise so a number of organisations formed that focussed on getting women the vote. One of these organisations was the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) which was formed in 1897 as a union of a number of smaller organisations. Millicent Fawcett became a leading campaigner for women to be given the vote. From the age of 19, she organised petitions to gather signatures in support of the campaign. She became President of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). The organisation had 50,000 members and was the largest organisation that campaigned for women’s suffrage. The NUWSS focussed most of their attention on the Liberal Party in the early 1900s as the Liberal Party’s views were more inclusive and they looked certain to win power in the upcoming elections. Their key belief was that women could gain the right to vote through peaceful negotiation and persuading politicians.The suffragettesThe Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) was founded in Manchester in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter, Christabel Pankhurst. They were hoping to persuade the newly formed Labour Party (that aimed to get support from working class people) to support the calls for women to get the vote. The WSPU were hopeful that when the Liberal Party came to power in 1906 that women would be given the vote.

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Tactics of the NUWSS (Suffragists)

A: The NUWSS used methods that would appeal to a wide audience. For example_________

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B: The NUWSS challenged peoples’ expectations of woman. For example_______________

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C: The NUWSS took an academic approach to campaigning. For example________________

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D: The NUWSS appealed directly to people in power for change. For example____________

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Did the suffragettes help or hinder the campaign for female suffrage? Would help to attract support from politicians Would hinder getting support from politicians Would help to attract support from the public Would hinder them getting public support

Tactics used by the WSPU (Suffragettes) before 1911

Tactics used by the WSPU (Suffragettes) after 1911

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Which view do you agree with?

How significant was Princess Sophia Duleep Singh for the women’s suffrage movement?

The princess without an empire

Sophia Duleep Singh was a Sikh princess. After Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s (her grandfather) death in 1839, the mighty Sikh empire had to face a lot of obstacles. The British ensured that the Sikh empire crumbled.

She was brought up at Elveden Hall on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. Queen Victoria was Sophia’s godmother and their traditional English estate was transformed into a Mughal palace with an ornate and exotic interior by the exiled Maharaja. It housed leopards, beneath the nursery and jewel-coloured parrots.

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Prof. Jane Purvis Dr. Christopher Bearman

Between 1903 and 1907, she visited India, which was under British rule. In India, she witnessed poverty and inequality on a scale she’d never seen before. Moreover, her sister Bamba couldn’t pursue medicine to become a surgeon in Germany, because it was ruled out as a profession for women.

Her experience in India had a lasting effect on her, and she went on to become a militant activist for women’s rights in 1909. Emmeline Pankhurst, the Suffragette pioneer, gave Sophia an important role in the campaign. With the kind of privileges she enjoyed, Princess Sophia could have lived an easy life, but she sought to fight inequality, both in England and India. 

This was the first time the British took note of the Suffragette movement as a member of extended British royalty stood boldly at the forefront. Princess Sophia refused to pay taxes on her carriage, servants and dogs. She fought for British women, voicing the slogan “no taxation without representation”. She believed in forceful protest as well as vocally supporting the movement.

Sophia was a frontrunner when West End shop-windows shattered and Kew Gardens burnt as a mark of protest. George V was befuddled as Sophia sold suffragist papers right outside her home, Hampton Court. Bailiffs entered her home to take away her goods but the defiant Princess refused to pay both taxes and fines for non-payment. She threw herself at the prime minister’s car, fought the police and funded WSPU campaigns.

The King’s Speech to Parliament was scheduled to be held in February 1911. Sophia joined the Suffragette protest outside Downing Street, in an unassuming way so that the police perceived her as part of the crowd. As Prime Minister Asquith got into his car, the princess somehow made her way between the crowds waving a ‘Give Women The Vote’ poster. She threw herself at his vehicle and shouted Suffragette slogans. Though Asquith was furious, he couldn’t muster the courage to get Queen Victoria’s god-daughter arrested when her grandson was scheduled to make a speech.

Besides her political work, she worked for the deprived Asian sailors of the East End, the liberation of women, the freedom of India and in 1914 (First World War), for the Indian soldiers wounded on the Western Front. Sikh soldiers couldn’t believe that the granddaughter of Ranjit Singh sat by their bedsides in a nurse’s uniform.

She raised money for Indian troops deployed on the Western Front, who were hardly equipped to combat the unfamiliar, bitter cold.

How significant was Princess Sophia’s contribution?

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Criterion 1: Criterion 2: Criterion 3:

Evidence Evidence Evidence

Did Emily Wilding Davison intend to become a martyr?

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Source A: A newspaper article following the death of Davison

How did women’s contribution in the war affect the suffrage movement?

Millicent Fawcett (NUWSS, Suffragist) had been highly critical of the WSPU’s militant approach to campaigning for women’s suffrage. The Pankhursts (leaders of the WSPU, Suffragettes) felt that the government had been taking too long to act and needed to be forced into action by more aggressive tactics. However, when war broke out in 1914, both sides agreed to pause their campaign meaning that for 4 years. Despite this, some historians believe that the work of women in the war period is what ultimately led to them being given the vote. In 1918, married women under 30 and all women over 30 were given the right to vote. This was still not equal to men’s rights and it wasn’t until 1928 that women were given the same voting rights as men.

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War

Source B: The front cover of ‘The Suffragette’, 13th June 1913

The impact of women’s contribution to the war effort

Why were women eventually given the right to vote?

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Women’s role in the First World

War

At the beginning of the war, both the WSPU and NUWSS began to setup organisations to help in the war effort. They raised money for women whose husbands had volunteered to fight and encouraged men to sign up to the army. The Pankhurts campaigned for women to work in the factories to replace the men who had gone to war. This was successful as women began working in the munitions and other industries. The women proved themselves to be competent and vital for the war effort. Many of the sexist arguments that women were too fragile or weak to do war work began to fade away. In 1916, the government decided that a new voting law was needed. Millions of ordinary men were away from Britain serving in the war but did not themselves have the right to vote. It seemed unjust that men should be potentially sacrificing their lives but unable to take part in the elections. A new Representation of the People Act was drafted that would give all men (aged 18 and over) the right to vote. Campaigners for women’s suffrage saw this as an opportunity to press the government into giving them the vote too.In December 1916, David Lloyd George became the new Prime Minister. He was less hostile to the women’s suffrage campaign but had been put off by the violence of the suffragettes before the war. By June 1917, most members of the government seemed to accept that some women should be given the right to vote. As the new Representation of the People Act was being debated, the suffragist leader, Millicent Fawcett and her supporters agreed to terms that would mean there would be some restrictions on which women could vote. The government proposed to let women under 30 vote if they were married and all women over 30. Although this was not equal to the rights of men, Fawcett believed it was an

1. Skim read and highlight any terms you don’t know.

2. Re-read and summarise the main points of each paragraph.

Why were women eventually given the right to vote?‘The main reason women were given rights to vote in 1918 was the women’s suffrage campaign.’ How far do you agree? Explain your answer. Agree – the role of the NUWSS Disagree – the harm done by the WSPU

Agree – the role of the WSPU Disagree – contribution to war was more important

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At the beginning of the war, both the WSPU and NUWSS began to setup organisations to help in the war effort. They raised money for women whose husbands had volunteered to fight and encouraged men to sign up to the army. The Pankhurts campaigned for women to work in the factories to replace the men who had gone to war. This was successful as women began working in the munitions and other industries. The women proved themselves to be competent and vital for the war effort. Many of the sexist arguments that women were too fragile or weak to do war work began to fade away. In 1916, the government decided that a new voting law was needed. Millions of ordinary men were away from Britain serving in the war but did not themselves have the right to vote. It seemed unjust that men should be potentially sacrificing their lives but unable to take part in the elections. A new Representation of the People Act was drafted that would give all men (aged 18 and over) the right to vote. Campaigners for women’s suffrage saw this as an opportunity to press the government into giving them the vote too.In December 1916, David Lloyd George became the new Prime Minister. He was less hostile to the women’s suffrage campaign but had been put off by the violence of the suffragettes before the war. By June 1917, most members of the government seemed to accept that some women should be given the right to vote. As the new Representation of the People Act was being debated, the suffragist leader, Millicent Fawcett and her supporters agreed to terms that would mean there would be some restrictions on which women could vote. The government proposed to let women under 30 vote if they were married and all women over 30. Although this was not equal to the rights of men, Fawcett believed it was an

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