Women's suffrage during World War One
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History Coursework Assignment One: Objective 3 World War 1 in 1914 brought all the campaigning for women's suffrage to a standstill. The campaigners believed that serving their country was of mroe importance than coercively trying to win the vote for women, and pursuading the Government. Mrs Fawcett, the representative of the N.U.W.S.S, said this,'Women, your country needs you. Let's show ourselves worthy of citizenship, whether our claim is to be recognised or not'. In the 1917 the W.S.P.U changed it's name to the Women's Party, and the newspaper retitled Britannia. However Sylvia Pankhurst did not agree with her fellow campaigners, she persisted in her campaigning throughout the war, she spoke on socialism and pacifism. Some members of the N.U.W.S.S were also against the war, some women were totally against it, whereas some women were for the war, and launched themselves into the crusade aginst the Germans. Out of love for the country...

