Hello.

My name is Mrs. Tipping, and I'm really looking forward to learning with you today all about significant individuals who changed Britain.

And we're going to explore the question, how did they fight for change? So shall we get started? Let's go.

By the end of today's lesson, you will be able to describe some of Emily Davison's actions as a militant suffragette.

Before we start, I would like to introduce you to some keywords.

We'll be using these keywords during the lesson, so it might be a good idea to write these words down.

The keywords we'll be using today are politician, militant, arrested, law.

I'm going to say those again and I'd like you to repeat them after me.

Politician.

Militant.

Arrested.

Law.

Good job.

Now, let's think in more detail about what these keywords mean.

A politician is a person who works in the government.

Violent or aggressive tactics can be described as militant.

When someone is arrested, they are taken away by the police because they have broken the law.

A law is a rule that everyone has to follow.

Pause the video here to make a note of these keywords.

And when you're ready to continue, press play.

These are the learning cycles that we'll be working through together in today's lesson.

Why were the suffragettes militant? What did Emily Davison do as a suffragette? In the first learning cycle, we'll explore why the suffragettes were militant.

Some people in Britain had been asking for women to be allowed to vote since the mid-1800s.

The tactics they had used were peaceful and included making speeches, writing letters to politicians, who are people who work in the government, organising marches, and handing out posters.

By 1903, none of these methods had worked because women were still not allowed to vote.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

What had people in Britain been doing in the 1800s to try to get votes for women? Marching in the streets.

Making speeches.

Writing letters to politicians.

Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you are ready to continue.

What did you think? Well, they had been doing all three of these things, so they had been marching in the streets, making speeches, and writing letters to politicians to try to get the votes for women.

The suffragettes were a group set up in 1903 because lots of people were angry that women still could not vote.

They decided they needed to work harder to convince the politicians, and they believed that actions were more powerful than words.

The suffragettes still used the same peaceful tactics as people had used in the 1800s, such as making speeches and marching in the streets with posters and banners.

Have a look there at that photo of the suffragette leader making a speech.

Can you see how many people are there listening? However, the suffragettes decided to also use more militant tactics.

Now, those are violent or aggressive tactics, and they try to use these to get more people to listen and pay attention to them.

They hope that the government could not keep ignoring them and would make the change that they wanted.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding here.

The suffragettes only used militant tactics.

Is that true or false? What do you think? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment and press play when you're ready to continue.

If you said that's false, you're absolutely right.

Now, looking at these two statements, which of these would help to justify your answer? They only used peaceful methods such as speeches.

They used both militant and peaceful methods.

Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner.

Which of these two statements would help to justify your answer? And press play when you are ready to continue.

How did that go? If you said that they used both militant and peaceful methods, you're absolutely right.

Well done.

The militant tactics used by the suffragettes were not intended to hurt anyone.

Instead, they always tried to do things that would get people's attention and be reported in the newspapers, so that people would read about them.

In this way, nobody would forget that women wanted to be able to vote.

Some of the militant tactics used by the suffragettes included smashing windows, destroying golf courses, and setting fire to empty buildings and postboxes.

They would also shout over politicians when they were making speeches at meetings.

One woman, Mary Maloney, went to all of the speeches made by one politician, and every time he tried to speak to the crowd, she rang a bell so that he couldn't be heard.

You can see that illustration there of suffragettes smashing windows.

So they've decided to take some militant tactics as well as peaceful ones, so they could finally be heard.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Can you complete the sentence below with a keyword from today's lesson? The tactics the suffragettes used were sometimes what? What should go in that missing space? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to hear the answer.

If you fill the gap with the word militant, you're absolutely right.

The tactics the suffragettes used were sometimes militant.

This brings us to our first learning task.

I'd like you to tell your learning partner why the suffragettes decided to use militant tactics.

You could mention these words, listen, vote, politicians, windows.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to tell your learning partner why the suffragettes decided to use militant tactics, and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did that go? Shall we take a look at an example? So your answer could include the suffragettes decided to use militant tactics such as smashing windows to get politicians to listen to them.

They wanted women to be able to vote for the leader of Britain.

Well done for completing that learning task.

We're now ready to move on to the second part of our lesson.

We're going to explore what Emily Davison did as a suffragette.

Emily Davison joined the suffragettes in 1906.

She joined in with both the peaceful and the militant tactics used by the group.

In 1909, Emily Davison was part of a suffragette march.

The police tried to stop the women marching, and Emily was arrested for the first time.

When someone is arrested, they are taken away by the police because they have broken the law.

Laws are rules that everyone in the country must follow.

Like many other suffragettes, Emily Davison was arrested lots of times for breaking the law.

Sometimes this was because the suffragette women would refuse to move from an area when asked by the police.

Emily also did other things like smashing windows, sneaking into politicians meetings to shout and throw stones at their cars.

Have a look there, that photo of the suffragette leader being arrested.

You'll see the policeman there taking her away.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Can you match the keyword to the correct definition? So we have law, militant, arrested.

When someone is taken away by the police because they have broken the law.

A rule that everyone has to follow.

Violent or aggressive tactics.

So pause the video here, have a discussion with your learning partner.

Can you match the keyword to the correct definition and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you get on? Shall we take a look? So a law is a rule that everyone has to follow.

Militant means violent or aggressive tactics.

Arrested is when someone is taken away by the police because they have broken the law.

Well done if you were able to match those correctly.

In 1910, the politician in charge of Britain was Herbert Asquith.

He told the leader of the suffragettes that he would finally allow women to vote, but he did not.

Hundreds of suffragettes felt angry and betrayed, and marched to the government building in London to try to see Herbert Asquith.

Police officers attacked the women in the streets and many suffragettes were arrested.

After that day in 1910, the suffragettes used even more militant tactics.

Have a look there at that front page of the newspaper in 1910.

You can see one of the suffragettes there on the floor.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Can you choose the correct year to complete this sentence? After, blank, the suffragettes used more militant tactics.

So is it after 1903, after 1905 or after 1910? Pause the video here.

Give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

If you said after 1910, the suffragettes used more militant tactics, you're absolutely right.

Well done.

Now, when the suffragettes were put into prison, Emily and others refused to eat.

This is called a hunger strike.

They did this to try and show how important it was for women to be allowed to vote.

The people working in the prison tried to force the suffragettes to eat, which could be very painful.

Soon what was happening, got reported in the newspapers, and lots of British people read about it.

It made more people realise that this was an important issue and that women should be allowed to vote.

Have a look there that photo of a front page of a newspaper.

How suffragettes are forcibly fed.

So lots of people at the time, the way that they would receive their news is just through the newspapers.

So lots of people would've read about this and would've felt angry and would've felt that they wanted women to be able to vote.

Let's take a moment here to pause and find out who is correct about Emily Davidson's actions as a suffragette.

Andeep says, "Emily Davidson was a militant suffragette." Aisha says, "Emily Davidson was always a peaceful suffragette.

Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner who is correct, Andeep or Aisha, about Emily Davidson's actions as a suffragette.

And press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Well, Andy is correct.

Emily Davidson was a militant suffragette.

Aisha is not quite right because Emily Davison was not always a peaceful suffragette, although she was peaceful at some times.

This brings us to our second learning task.

I'd like you to complete each of the sentences below.

The suffragettes were trying to.

Emily Davison was arrested lots of times for things like.

In prison, Emily Davison.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to complete each of the sentences below and press play when you are ready to continue.

How did that go? Shall we take a look at an example? So your answers could include the suffragettes were trying to get votes for women.

Emily Davison was arrested lots of times for things like smashing windows and setting fire to postboxes in prison.

Emily Davison went on hunger strike.

Well done if you are able to complete those sentences and well done for completing that learning task.

Before we finish this lesson, let's summarise what we've learned about stories from Emily Davison's activism.

The suffragettes used militant tactics to try to get politicians to listen to them.

They sometimes even broke the law and went to prison for it.

Emily Davison was arrested lots of times for the things she did, including breaking windows and setting fire to postboxes.

In prison, Emily went on hunger strike to show how important it was for women to be allowed to vote.

Lots of people in Britain felt sorry for the suffragettes in prison.

Thank you for joining me in this lesson today.

I hope to see you in the next one.

See you next time.