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Describe the ways in which the methods of the Suffragettes and the Suffragists were different.
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History GCSE Coursework, James Cunnington Describe the ways in which the methods of the Suffragettes and the Suffragists were different. The suffragettes and suffragists, although sharing the same ultimate goal, went about achieving their aims in very different ways. Suffragists in the late 1800s and early 1900s, on the most part, were made up of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) which was a politically neutral organisation of many women generally from the middle classes. The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) on the other hand was a part of the newly formed Labour Party attracting those from the upper echelons of society. Initially the two groups were linked as many women were members of both unions but after 1908 the groups became angered with one another and members were asked to choose between the two. This essay will describe how their actions, their philosophy, their politics...
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