Enquiry 3 Whose suffrage campaign story should we

Enquiry 3 Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue?

Enquiry overview Lesson 1: Why did Manchester City Council pay for a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst? Lesson 2: Why is there a statue of Alice Hawkins in Leicester? Lessons 3– 5: Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue? • suffrage case studies • male-centric media • statue design Outcome activity: Write an extended paragraph answering the enquiry question and design your own suffrage statue. Enquiry 3: Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue?

Lesson 2 Why is there a statue of Alice Hawkins in Leicester? Enquiry 3: Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue?

Lesson 2 overview Content covered in the lesson: • Unveiling the Leicester statue. • Who was Alice Hawkins? • Why does Leicester want to commemorate her in a statue? • Enquiry: Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue? • Examples of commemorative statues. Enquiry 3: Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue?

Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue? Recap: Watch this video. Q: What do you think is happening? Enquiry 3: Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue?

Unveiling the Leicester statue The video shows the unveiling of a statue of a campaigner for votes for women. This is not the new statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in Manchester. Enquiry 3: Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue?

Unveiling the Leicester statue The statue is of a working-class shoemaker from Leicester called Alice Hawkins. Enquiry 3: Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue?

Who was Alice Hawkins? Read this biography of Hawkins from the website run by her great-grandchildren. Highlight anything that Alice did that made a contribution to the campaign for votes for women. Alice Hawkins made a significant contribution to the WSPU’s campaign for the vote. Q: Why do people in Leicester want a statue of her? Q: Why don’t they want a statue of one of the Pankhursts? Enquiry 3: Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue?

Why does Leicester want to commemorate her? In a letter to the Guardian newspaper in 2017, a Leicester Councillor, Adam Clarke, explained why he thought Leicester needed a statue of Alice Hawkins. Enquiry 3: Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue?

Why does Leicester want to commemorate her? Partly, it is because of what she achieved. Partly, it is because she is from Leicester. Partly, it is because of who she was. Look again at Councillor Clarke’s letter. Surely, though, in the name of equality, working-class female freedom fighters such as Hawkins deserve greater recognition during the centenary of the Representation of the People Act than the already well-known (and much more affluent) leaders of the suffragists and suffragettes. Enquiry 3: Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue?

Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue? Activity: Why do people today choose to put up statues of people from the past? Tasks: 1) Add anything you can to your spider diagram from last lesson. Why do people today choose to put up statues of people from the past? Enquiry 3: Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue?

Enquiry: Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue? Enquiry task: To research women who campaigned for the vote and design a statue to memorialise them and/or their work. You will need to justify your decisions. This is not a simple task. As the historical writer, artist and podcaster Nate Dimeo points out: Memorials aren’t memories. They have motives. They are historical. They are not history itself. You have already thought about some of the reasons why people in particular places might choose to memorialise certain people. This might have something to do with the achievements of the person being remembered. It will also have something to do with the people doing the remembering. Enquiry 3: Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue?

Enquiry: Examples of commemorative statues Here are four statues that have been in the news over the last few years What are you looking at? What do you think the people behind these statues were trying to say? If the statue was attacked, why was it attacked? What is your personal response to the statue or to the protests around the statue? Enquiry 3: Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue?

Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue? Plenary: Use what you have learned today to continue your discussion: Why do people put up statues of people from the past? Enquiry 3: Whose suffrage campaign story should we commemorate with a statue?