Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide range of topics. Each title in the series provides comprehensive coverage of different history topics on current AS and A2 level history specifications, alongside exam-style practice questions and tips to help students achieve their best. The series: - Ensures students gain a good understanding of the AS and A2 level history topics through an engaging, in-depth and up-to-date narrative, presented in an accessible way. - Aids revision of the key A level history topics and themes through frequent summary diagrams - Gives support with assessment, both through the books providing exam-style questions and tips for AQA, Edexcel and OCR A level history specifications and through FREE model answers with supporting commentary at Access to History online (www.accesstohistory.co.uk) Votes for Women This title introduces the key figures involved in the women's suffrage movement and goes on to consider the arguments advanced by those who supported and those who opposed votes for women (in particluar, the response of men to the campaigns). The narrative also highlights the pace and extent of suffragist and suffragette activity, and assesses their contribution to the First World War and the extent to which women gained the vote as a result of their efforts during the conflict.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Change and Continuity in the Position of Women 1860-1918 1. Introduction 2. Education 3. Work 4. Marriage and Divorce 5. Sexual Morality 6. Politics Chapter 2: Votes for Women: The Debate 1. The Case for Votes for Women 2. The Case Against Votes for Women 3. Suffrage and Anti-suffrage Arguments Study Guide Chapter 3: Suffragists and Suffragettes 1. The Origins of Women's Suffrage 2. Disunity in the Suffrage Movement 3. The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and its Offshoots 1897-1914 4. The Women's Social and Political Union 1903-14 5. Key Debate: Suffragette Membership 6. Disunity in the Suffragette Movement 7. Other Suffrage Societies 8. The Opposition to Votes for Women 9. The Key Debate Study Guide Chapter 4: The Suffrage Campaigns 1860-1914 1. Introduction 2. Peaceful Methods of Campaigning 3. Parliament and Women's Suffrage 4. Increasing Militancy 5. The Key debate Study Guide Chapter 5: Men and Votes for Women 1. Introduction 2. The Political Parties 2. The Liberal Government 1906-14 3. The Alternative Establishment 4. Male Organisations 5. Research and Men's Support of Votes for Women Study guide Chapter 6: Women, Suffrage and the First World War 1. The Suffrage Movement and the War 2. Women's War Work and the Vote 3. War, Suffrage and the Government 4. The Key Debate Study Guide Chapter 7: Life after Suffrage 1. Introduction 2. Effects on Parliament 3. Effects on the Women's Movement 4. Effects on Women's Work 5. Effects on Marriage and the Family 6. Effects on Sexual Morality Glossary