What areas of Greenwich could be labelled a honeypot

The suffragists, which first joined together in 1968 under the ruling of Lydia Becker was the first of the two societies to form. The were then called the National Society for Womens Suffrage and believed in using peaceful methods to achieve their aim of women’s voting right. However at this early stage of women’s suffrage there were many splits inside the suffrage society and many believe that the suffragists did not fully  start campaigning till later. By the time they came together in 1897 to form the National Union of Women Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) led by Millicent Garett Fawcett, there were over 500 local branches. By 1902 the campaign had gained support of Woking class women as well. In 1901-1902, Eva gore-booth gathered signatures of 67,000 textile workers in northern England for a petition to parliament. Millicent had many political connections and was married to a liberal MP called Henry Fawcett, whom she had been introduced to at an election speech which she had been taken to by her sisters. Her sister, Elizabeth, was the first ever female doctor. Millicent was well educated and had family connections to the suffrage campaign. She did not believe that violence gave results, so the NUWSS attempted many peaceful methods of communicating with the men of the government to get there rights law past, for example they wrote letters to members of parliament, they visited member's houses and they signed many, many, many petitions. However, their rather feeble attempts were unsuccessful and no news came to them of the law being past. Although the NUWSS claimed to be non-party political many of its members were often closely related to liberal MP’s. Many of the NUWSS’ members were also involved in other women’s rights issues such as the Married Women’s Property Act. Later on the NUWSS then divided from regional groups into independent federations.

The other main group, were called the suffragettes. They were called the WSPU andd they formed in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel who were fed-up with the slow and inadequate protesting of Mrs Fawcett. They believed that violence gave results, they wanted the right to vote and they wanted it as soon as possible. They saw that the suffragists had taken 35 years and still had not achieved their main goal of achieving the vote for women. So they decided to create a new group, which would have more unconventional methods, which they believed were more likely to be effective. Many other women who were also in the NUWSS flocked to this new group and caused mayhem to the organised NUWSS. Just like Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst also had many political connections, and was married to a barrister who was a strong supporter of the campaign. However the WSPU had many splits, as the Pankhurst family had many arguments and there were divisions in the family. The WSPU members were encouraged to go on hunger strikes and Emmeline Pankhurst was arrested many times along with other active members of the WSPU. The NUWSS tried hard to distance themselves as they believed this methods were more of a hindrance to the campaign rather than a help. There were many differences between the two groups and in 1893 when Emily Davison jumped in front of a horse and killed herself the NUWSS believed they had taken the campaign too far.