It is also the militant Suffragettes who are generally remembered and they have gained the reputation as the main campaigners for the cause of female suffrage. Both wings of the movement campaigned with enormous energy and commitment but it was the militant Suffragettes who generally hit the headlines with their direct actions, ranging from the disruption of political meetings to attacks on government ministers and even arson.
This distinguished them from the more militant Women’s Social and Political Union, or Suffragettes (although confusingly politicians and newspapers sometimes referred to the Suffragettes as ‘Militant Suffragists’). They believed in constitutional, law-abiding methods of campaigning. The NUWSS were often referred to as the Suffragists. In 1897 these societies united under one banner, the National Union of Women Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). By the 1890s there was an extensive network of local societies campaigning to get the vote for women.
Women had been campaigning for the vote from the mid-1800s or even earlier.
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