Suffragettes - An Introduction - Newark Library - Adult Learning

Newark Library, Balderton Gate

Date	4 October - 1 November 2025
Sessions	Saturdays: 1:30pm - 3:30pm
No. sessions	5
Venue	Newark Library, Balderton Gate View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	FREE - £40

About this course

Come and learn about how a group of determined women changed the politics of a country. On this course you will gain an insight into the British suffragette movement and become familiar with key women’s rights activists, suffragettes, and suffragette groups. You will also find out about their tactics, how they moved to become more militant, and how they were treated as a result.

During the course, we will:

- assess and discuss the origins of the women’s suffrage movement and why early attempts to extend the franchise failed.

- Discover and discuss the lead up to militancy in the movement

- Look at the politics of why the women were treated the way they were

- Evaluate and discuss why (some) women received the vote in 1918, comparing different arguments and assessing key documents.

- Look at the activities of local women, and the movement in Nottinghamshire

- Reflect upon and discuss the role of protest in effecting political change and how Suffragette militancy and the government’s response at the beginning of the 20th century would be classified today.

What you will need to bring to the course:

Pen and paper

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
West of England
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014