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WSPU poster by Hilda Dallas, 1909.
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom was a movement to fight for women's right to vote. It finally succeeded through two laws in 1918 and 1928. It became a national movement in the Victorian era. Women were not explicitly banned from voting in Great Britain until the 1832 Reform Act and the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act. In 1872 the fight for women's suffrage became a national movement with the formation of the National Society for Women's Suffrage and later the more influential National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). As well as in England, women's suffrage movements in Wales and other parts of the United Kingdom gained momentum. The movements shifted sentiments in favour of woman suffrage by 1906. It was at this point that the militant campaign began with the formation of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).[1]
The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 led to a suspension of all politics, including the militant suffragette campaigns. Lobbying did take place quietly. In 1918, a coalition government passed the Representation of the People Act 1918, enfranchising all men, as well as all women over the age of 30 who met minimum property qualifications. This act was the first to include practically all men in the political system and began the inclusion of women, extending the franchise by 5.6 million men[2] and 8.4 million women.[3] In 1928, the Conservative government passed the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act giving the vote to all women over the age of 21 on equal terms with men.
Contents
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1 Background
2 Early suffragist societies
3 The formation of a national movement
3.1 Women's political groups
3.1.1 The Primrose League
3.1.2 The Women's Liberal Associations
3.2 Pressure groups
3.3 Pankhursts and suffragettes
4 First World War
4.1 Parliament expands suffrage 1918
5 Women in prominent roles
6 Legacy
7 Timeline
8 See also
9 References
10 Further reading
11 Primary sources
12 External links
Background[edit]
Until the 1832 Great Reform Act specified 'male persons', a few women had been able to vote in parliamentary elections through property ownership, although this was rare.[4] In local government elections, single women ratepayers received the right to vote in the Municipal Franchise Act 1869. This right was confirmed in the Local Government Act 1894 and extended to include some married women.[5][6][7] By 1900, more than 1 million single women were registered to vote in local government elections in England.[8]
Both before and after the 1832 Reform Act there were some who advocated that women should have the right to vote in parliamentary elections. After the enactment of the Reform Act, the MP Henry Hunt argued that any woman who was single, a taxpayer and had sufficient property should be allowed to vote. One such wealthy woman, Mary Smith, was used in this speech as an example.
The Chartist Movement, which began in the late 1830s, has also been suggested to have included supporters of female suffrage. There is some evidence to suggest William Lovett, one of the authors of the People's Charter wished to include female suffrage as one of the campaign's demands but chose not to on the grounds that this would delay the implementation of the charter. Although there were female Chartists, they largely worked toward universal male suffrage. At this time most women did not have aspirations to gain the vote.
There is a poll book from 1843 which clearly shows thirty women's names among those who voted. These women were playing an active role in the election. On the roll, the wealthiest female elector was Grace Brown, a butcher. Due to the high rates that she paid, Grace Brown was entitled to four votes.[9]
Lilly Maxwell cast a high-profile vote in Britain in 1867 after the Great Reform Act of 1832.[10] Maxwell, a shop owner, met the property qualifications that otherwise would have made her eligible to vote had she been male. In error, however, her name had been added to the election register and on that basis she succeeded in voting in a by-election – her vote however was later declared illegal by the Court of Common Pleas. The case, however, gave women's suffrage campaigners great publicity.
Outside pressure for women's suffrage was at this time diluted by feminist issues in general. Women's rights were becoming increasingly prominent in the 1850s as some women in higher social spheres refused to obey the gender roles dictated to them. Feminist goals at this time included the right to sue an ex-husband after divorce (achieved in 1857) and the right for married women to own property (fully achieved in 1882 after some concession by the government in 1870).
The issue of parliamentary reform declined along with the Chartists after 1848 and only reemerged with the election of John Stuart Mill in 1865. He stood for office showing direct support for female suffrage and was an MP in the run up to the second Reform Act.
Early suffragist societies[edit]
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In the same year that John Stuart Mill was elected (1865), the first Ladies Discussion Society was formed, debating whether women should be involved in public affairs. Although a society for suffrage was proposed, this was turned down on the grounds that it might be taken over by extremists.
However, later that year Leigh Smith Bodichon formed the first Women's Suffrage Committee and within a fortnight collected 1,500 signatures in favour of female suffrage in advance to the second Reform Bill.
The Manchester Society for Women's Suffrage was founded in February 1867. Its secretary, Lydia Becker, wrote letters both to Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and to The Spectator. She was also involved with the London group, and organised the collection of more signatures.
However, in June the London group split, partly a result of party allegiance, and partly the result of tactical issues. Conservative members wished to move slowly to avoid alarming public opinion, while Liberals generally opposed this apparent dilution of political conviction. As a result, Helen Taylor founded the London National Society for Women's Suffrage which set up strong links with Manchester and Edinburgh. In Scotland one of the earliest societies was the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage.[11]
Although these early splits left the movement divided and sometimes leaderless, it allowed Lydia Becker to have a stronger influence. The suffragists were known as the parliamentaries.
In Ireland, the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association was established in 1874. As well as campaigning for women's suffrage, it sought to advance women's position in local government. In 1898, it changed its name to the Irish Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association.
The formation of a national movement[edit]
Women's political groups[edit]
A handbill complaining about sexual discrimination during the movement.
Although women's political party groups were not formed with the aim to achieve women's suffrage, they did have two key effects. Firstly, they showed women who were members to be competent in the political arena and as this became clear, secondly, it brought the concept of female suffrage closer to acceptance.
The Primrose League[edit]
The Primrose League was set up to promote Conservative values through social events and supporting the community. As women were able to join, this gave females of all classes the ability to mix with local and national political figures. Many also had important roles such as bringing voters to the polls. This removed segregation and promoted political literacy amongst women. The League, however, did not promote women's suffrage as one of its objectives.
The Women's Liberal Associations[edit]
Although there is evidence to suggest that they were originally formed to promote female franchise (the first being in Bristol in 1881), WLAs often did not hold such an agenda. They did, however, operate independently from the male groups. They became more active when they came under the control of the Women's Liberal Federation, and canvassed all classes for support of women's suffrage and against male domination.
There was significant support for woman suffrage in the Liberal Party, which was in power after 1905, but a handful of leaders, especially H. H. Asquith, blocked all efforts in Parliament.[12]
Pressure groups[edit]
The campaign first developed into a national movement in the 1870s. At this point, all campaigners were suffragists, not suffragettes. Up until 1903, all campaigning took the constitutional approach. It was after the defeat of the first Women's Suffrage Bill that the Manchester and London committees joined together to gain wider support. The main methods of doing so at this time involved lobbying MPs to put forward Private Member's Bills. However such bills rarely pass and so this was an ineffective way of actually achieving the vote.
In 1868, local groups amalgamated to form a series of close-knit groups with the founding of the National Society for Women's Suffrage (NSWS). This is notable as the first attempt to create a unified front to propose women's suffrage, but had little effect due to several splits, once again weakening the campaign.
WSPU poster 1914
Up until 1897, the campaign stayed at this relatively ineffective level. Campaigners came predominantly from the landed classes and joined together on a small scale only. However, 1897 saw the foundation of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) by Millicent Fawcett. This society linked smaller groups together and also put pressure on non-supportive MPs using various peaceful methods.
Pankhursts and suffragettes[edit]
Main article: Suffragette
Founded in 1903, the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) was tightly controlled by the three Pankhursts, Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928), and her daughters Christabel Pankhurst (1880–1958) and Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960).[13] It specialized in highly visible publicity campaigns such as large parades. This had the effect of energizing all dimensions of the suffrage movement. While there was a majority of support for suffrage in parliament, the ruling Liberal Party refused to allow a vote on the issue; the result of which was an escalation in the suffragette campaign. The WSPU, in contrast to its allies, embarked on a campaign of violence to publicize the issue, even to the detriment of its own aims.[14]
The Cat and Mouse Act was passed by Parliament in an attempt to prevent suffragettes from becoming martyrs in prison. It provided for the release of those whose hunger strikes and forced feeding had brought them sickness, as well as their re-imprisonment once they had recovered. The result was even greater publicity for the cause.[15]
The tactics of the WSPU included shouting down speakers, hunger strikes, stone-throwing, window-smashing, and arson of unoccupied churches and country houses. Historian Martin Pugh says, "militancy clearly damaged the cause."[16] Whitfield says, "the overall effect of the suffragette militancy, however, was to set back the cause of women's suffrage."[17] Historian Harold Smith, citing historian Sandra Holton, has argued that by 1913 WSPU gave priority to militancy rather than obtaining the vote. Their battle with Liberals have become a "kind of holy war, so important that it could not be called off even if continuing it prevented suffrage reform. This preoccupation with the struggle distinguished the WSPU from that by the NUWSS, which remained focused on obtaining women's suffrage."[18]
Smith concludes:
Although non-historians often assumed the WSPU was primarily responsible for obtaining women's suffrage, historians are much more skeptical about its contribution. It is generally agreed that the WSPU revitalized the suffrage campaign initially, but that it is escalation of militancy after 1912 impeded reform. Recent studies have shifted from claiming that the WSPU was responsible for women's suffrage to portraying it as an early form of radical feminism that sought to liberate women from male-centered gender system.[19]
First World War[edit]
The greater suffrage efforts halted with the outbreak of World War I. While some activity continued, with the NUWSS continuing to lobby peacefully, Emmeline Pankhurst, convinced that Germany posed a danger to all humanity, persuaded the WSPU to halt all militant suffrage activity.
Parliament expands suffrage 1918[edit]
During the wars select group of parliamentary leaders decided on a policy that would expand the suffrage to all men, and to most women. Prime Minister Asquith, an opponent, was replaced in late 1916 by David Lloyd George, a longtime supporter of women’s suffrage.
During the war, a serious shortage of able-bodied men ("manpower") occurred, and women were required to take on many of the traditional male roles. With the approval of the labour unions, "dilution" was agreed upon. Complicated factory jobs handled by skilled men were diluted or simplified so that they could be handled by less skilled men and women. The result was a large increase in women workers, concentrated in munitions industries of highest priority to winning the war. This led to a new view of what a woman was capable of doing, at the same time the anti-suffrage hostility caused by pre-war militant tactics declined. All the major women's groups strongly supported the war effort. Pacifism existed on the left of politics, especially in the trade unions, but did not play a major role in creating opposition to women's suffrage. Until now suffrage was based on occupational qualifications of men. Millions of women were now meeting those occupational qualifications, which in any case were so old-fashioned that the consensus was to remove them. For example, a male voter who joined the Army might lose the right to vote, which was an intolerable result. In early 1916, suffragist organizations privately agreed to downplay their differences, and resolve that any legislation increasing the number of votes should also enfranchise women. Local government officials proposed a simplification of the old system of franchise and registration, and the Labour cabinet member in the new coalition government, Arthur Henderson, called for universal suffrage, with an age cutoff of 21 for men and 25 for women. Most male political leaders showed anxiety about having a female majority in the new electorate. Parliament turned over the issue to a new Speakers Conference, a special committee from all parties from both houses, chaired by the Speaker. They began meeting in October 1916, in secret. A majority of 15 to 6 supported votes for some women; by 12 to 10, it agreed on a higher age cut off for women.[20] Women leaders accepted a cutoff age of 30 in order to get the vote for most women.[21]
Finally in 1918, Parliament passed an act granting the vote to women over the age of 30 who were householders, the wives of householders, occupiers of property with an annual rent of £5, and graduates of British universities. About 8.4 million women gained the vote.[22] In November 1918, the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 was passed, allowing women to be elected into the House of Commons.[22] By 1928 the consensus was that votes for women had been successful. With the Conservative Party in full control in 1928, it passed the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act that extended the voting franchise to all women over the age of 21, granting women the vote on the same terms as men,[23][24] although one Conservative opponent of the bill warned that it risked splitting the party for years to come.[25]
Women in prominent roles[edit]
WSPU founders Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst was a key figure gaining intense media coverage of the women's suffrage movement. Pankhurst, alongside her two daughters, Christabel and Sylvia, founded and led the Women's Social and Political Union, an organisation which was focused on direct action to win the vote. Her husband, Richard Pankhurst, also supported women suffrage ideas since he was the author of the first British woman suffrage bill and the Married Women’s Property Acts in 1870 and 1882. After her husband’s death, Emmeline decided to move to the forefront of the suffrage battle. Along with her two daughters, Christabel Pankhurst and Sylvia Pankhurst, she joined the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). With her experience with this organisation, Emmeline founded the Women's Franchise League in 1889 and the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903.[26] Frustrated with years of government inactivity and false promises, the WSPU adopted a militant stance, which was so influential it was later imported into suffrage struggles worldwide, most notably by Alice Paul in the United States. After many years of struggle and adversity, women finally gained suffrage but Emmeline died shortly after this.[27]
Another key figure was Millicent Fawcett. She had a peaceful approach to issues presented to the organisations and the way to get points across to society. She supported the Married Women's Property Act and the social purity campaign. Two events influenced her to become even more involved: her husband’s death and the division of the suffrage movement over the issue of affiliation with political parties. Millicent, who supported staying independent of political parties, made sure that the parts separated came together to become stronger by working together. Because of her actions, she was made president of the NUWSS.[28] In 1910–1912, she supported a bill to give vote rights to single and widowed females of a household. By supporting the British in World War I, she thought women would be recognised as a prominent part of Europe and deserved basic rights such as voting.[29] Millicent Fawcett came from a radical family. Her sister was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson an English physician and feminist, and the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain. Elizabeth was elected mayor of Aldeburgh in 1908 and gave speeches for suffrage.[30]
Emily Davies became an editor of a feminist publication, Englishwoman's Journal. She expressed her feminist ideas on paper and was also a major supporter and influential figure during the twentieth century. In addition to suffrage, she supported more rights for women such as access to education. She wrote works and had power with words. She wrote texts such as Thoughts on Some Questions Relating to Women in 1910 and Higher Education for Women in 1866. She was a large supporter in the times where organisations were trying to reach people for a change.[31] With her was a friend named Barbara Bodichon who also published articles and books such as Women and Work (1857), Enfranchisement of Women (1866), and Objections to the Enfranchisement of Women (1866), and American Diary in 1872.[32]
Mary Gawthorpe was an early suffragette who left teaching to fight for women's voting rights. She was imprisoned after heckling Winston Churchill. She left England after her release, eventually emigrating to the United States and settling in New York. She worked in the trade union movement and in 1920 became a full-time official of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union. In 2003, Mary's nieces donated her papers to New York University.[33]
Legacy[edit]
Whitfield concludes that the militant campaign had some positive effects in terms of attracting enormous publicity, and forcing the moderates to better organize themselves, while also stimulating the organization of the antis. He concludes:
The overall effect of the suffragette militancy, however, was to set back the cause of women's suffrage. For women to gain the right to vote it was necessary to demonstrate that they had public opinion on their side, to build and consolidate a parliamentary majority in favour of women's suffrage and to persuade or pressure the government to introduce its own franchise reform. None of these objectives was achieved.[34]
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Women being given the right to vote, a statue of Millicent Fawcett is to be erected in Parliament Square, London.[35]
Timeline[edit]
A suffragette arrested in the street by two police officers in London in 1914
1818: Jeremy Bentham advocates female suffrage in his book A Plan for Parliamentary Reform. The Vestries Act 1818 allowed some single women to vote in parish vestry elections[8]
1832: Great Reform Act – confirmed the exclusion of women from the electorate.
1851: The Sheffield Female Political Association is founded and submits a petition calling for women's suffrage to the House of Lords.
1864: The first Contagious Disease Act is passed in England, which is intended to control venereal disease by having prostitutes and women believed to be prostitutes be locked away in hospitals for examination and treatment. When information broke to the general public about the shocking stories of brutality and vice in these hospitals, Josephine Butler launched a campaign to get them repealed. Many have since argued that Butler's campaign destroyed the conspiracy of silence around sexuality and forced women to act in protection of others of their gender. In doing so, clear linkages emerge between the suffrage movement and Butler's campaign.[36]
1865: John Stuart Mill elected as an MP showing direct support for women's suffrage.
1867: Second Reform Act – Male franchise extended to 2.5 million
1869: Municipal Franchise Act gives single women ratepayers the right to vote in local elections.[5][6][7]
1883: Conservative Primrose League formed.
1884: Third Reform Act – Male electorate doubled to 5 million
1889: Women's Franchise League established.
1894: Local Government Act (women who owned property could vote in local elections, become Poor Law Guardians, act on School Boards)
1894: The publication of C.C. Stopes's British Freewomen, staple reading for the suffrage movement for decades.[37]
1897: National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies NUWSS formed (led by Millicent Fawcett).
1903: Women's Social and Political Union WSPU is formed (led by Emmeline Pankhurst)
1904: Militancy begins. Emmeline Pankhurst interrupts a Liberal Party meeting.[38]
February 1907: NUWSS "Mud March" – largest open air demonstration ever held (at that point) – over 3000 women took part. In this year, women were admitted to the register to vote in and stand for election to principal local authorities.
1907: The Artists' Suffrage League founded
1907: The Women's Freedom League founded
1908: in November of this year, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, a member of the small municipal borough of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, was selected as mayor of that town, the first woman to so serve.
1907, 1912, 1914: major splits in WSPU
1905, 1908, 1913: Three phases of WSPU militancy (Civil Disobedience; Destruction of Public Property; Arson/Bombings)
5 July 1909: Marion Wallace Dunlop went on the first hunger strike – was released after 91 hours of fasting
1909 The Women's Tax Resistance League founded
September 1909: Force feeding introduced to hunger strikers in English prisons
1910: Lady Constance Lytton disguised herself as a working class seamstress, Jane Wharton, and was arrested and endured force feeding that cut down her life span considerably[39]
February 1910: Cross-Party Conciliation Committee (54 MPs). Conciliation Bill (that would enfranchise women) passed its 2nd reading by a majority of 109 but Asquith refused to give it more parliamentary time
November 1910: Herbert Henry Asquith changed Bill to enfranchise more men instead of women
18 November 1910: Black Friday[40]
October 1912: George Lansbury, Labour MP, resigned his seat in support of women's suffrage
February 1913: David Lloyd George's house burned down by WSPU[41] (despite his support for women's suffrage).
April 1913: Cat and Mouse Act passed, allowing hunger-striking prisoners to be released when their health was threatened and then re-arrested when they had recovered
4 June 1913: Emily Davison walked in front of, and was subsequently trampled and killed by, the King’s Horse at The Derby.
13 March 1914: Mary Richardson slashed the Rokeby Venus painted by Diego Velázquez in the National Gallery with an axe, protesting that she was maiming a beautiful woman just as the government was maiming Emmeline Pankhurst with force feeding
4 August 1914: World War declared in Britain. WSPU activity immediately ceased. NUWSS activity continued peacefully – the Birmingham branch of the organisation continued to lobby Parliament and write letters to MPs.
6 February 1918: The Representation of the People Act of 1918 enfranchised women over the age of 30 who were either a member or married to a member of the Local Government Register. About 8.4 million women gained the vote.[22][42]
21 November 1918: the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 was passed, allowing women to be elected into Parliament.[22]
1928: Women received the vote on the same terms as men (over the age of 21) as a result of the Representation of the People Act 1928.[43]
See also[edit]
Feminism in the United Kingdom
Lobbying in the United Kingdom
The Women's Library (London)—holds an extensive collection of material relating to the women's suffrage movement
List of suffragists and suffragettes
List of women's rights activists
Timeline of women's suffrage
Alice Paul
Women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
Anti-suffragism
Suffrage jewellery
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Further reading[edit]
Cowman, Krista (2004). "Mrs. Brown is a Man and a Brother!": Women in Merseyside's Political Organisations, 1890–1920. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0-853-23748-8.
Crawford, Elizabeth (1999). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866–1928. London: UCL Press.
Crossley, Nick, et al. "Covert social movement networks and the secrecy-efficiency trade off: The case of the UK suffragettes (1906–1914)." Social Networks 34.4 (2012): 634-644. online
Crawford, Elizabeth (2013). The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey. Routledge.
Gavron, Sarah. "The making of the feature film Suffragette." Women's History Review 24.6 (2015): 985-995.
Seabourne, Gwen. "Deeds, Words and Drama: A Review of the Film Suffragette." Feminist Legal Studies 24.1 (2016): 115-119.
Griffin, Ben (2012). The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain: Masculinity, Political Culture and the Struggle for Women's Rights. Cambridge University Press.
Jenkins, Lyndsey. Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr (Biteback Publishing, 2015).
Judge, Tony. Margaret Bondfield: First Woman in the Cabinet (Alpha House, 2018)
Kent, Susan Kingsley (2014) [1987]. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860–1914. Princeton Legacy Library. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Mayall, Laura E. Nym (2000). "Defining Militancy: Radical Protest, the Constitutional Idiom, and Women's Suffrage in Britain, 1908–1909". The Journal of British Studies. 39 (3): 340–371. JSTOR 175976.
Mayhall, Laura E. Nym. The Militant Suffrage Movement: Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860-1930 (Oxford UP, 2003) online
Nelson, Carolyn Christensen, ed. (2004). Literature of the Women's Suffrage Campaign in England. Broadview Press.
Pugh, Martin (2012). State and Society: A Social and Political History of Britain Since 1870 (4th ed.). London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-780-93041-1.
Pugh, Martin. The March of the Women: A Revisionist Analysis of the Campaign for Women's Suffrage, 1866-1914 (Oxford UP, 2000) online
Purvis, June (1995). "The Prison Experiences of the Suffragettes in Edwardian Britain". Women's History Review. 4 (1): 103–133. doi:10.1080/09612029500200073.
Purvis, June (2013). "Gendering the Historiography of the Suffragette Movement in Edwardian Britain: some reflections". Women's History Review. 22 (4): 576–590. doi:10.1080/09612025.2012.751768.
Purvis, June; Sandra, Stanley Holton, eds. (2000). Votes For Women. London: Routledge. ; 12 essays by scholars
Smith, Harold L. (2010). The British Women's Suffrage Campaign, 1866–1928 (Revised 2nd ed.). Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-408-22823-4.
Wallace, Ryland (2009). The Women's Suffrage Movement in Wales, 1866–1928. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-708-32173-7.
Whitfield, Bob (2001). The Extension of the Franchise, 1832–1931. Oxford: Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-435-32717-0.
Wingerden, Sophia A. van (1999). The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain, 1866–1928. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-66911-2.
Primary sources[edit]
Lewis, J., ed. Before the Vote Was Won: Arguments for and Against Women's Suffrage (1987)
McPhee, C. and A. Fitzgerald, eds. The Non--Violent Militant: Selected Writings of Teresa Billington-Greig (1987)
Marcus, J., ed. Suffrage and the Pankhursts (1987)
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom.
The struggle for democracy – information on the suffragettes at the British Library learning website
https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/archives-and-local-studies/research-guides/womens-suffrage.html Sources for the Study of Women's Suffrage in Sheffield, UK produced by Sheffield City Council's Libraries and Archives.
Gladstone, William Ewart (1892). Female suffrage. A letter from the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone. London: John Murray.
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Fourth Sunday of September
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Anacortes, Washington , USA
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48°29′52″N 122°37′56″W / 48.49778°N 122.63222°W / 48.49778; -122.63222 (Anacortes, Washington)Coordinates: 48°29′52″N 122°37′56″W / 48.49778°N 122.63222°W / 48.49778; -122.63222 (Anacortes, Washington)
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1981
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ca. 20,000 (2008)[1]
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The Oyster Run is a motorcycle rally held annually each September since 1981 in Anacortes, Washington. It is the largest rally in the Pacific Northwest[2] with 2006 attendance estimated in the tens of thousands.[3]
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Jump up ^ Bikers overtake town in ritual Oyster Run, Seattle P-I, September 30, 2002, retrieved 2009-09-23
Jump up ^ Oyster Run 2005, Bandit's Bikernet, retrieved 2009-09-23
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Exit Through the Gift Shop
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Directed by
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Produced by
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Jaimie D'Cruz
James Gay-Rees
Starring
Mr. Brainwash
Banksy
Shepard Fairey
Invader
André
Narrated by
Rhys Ifans
Music by
Geoff Barrow
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Tom Fulford
Chris King
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Revolver Entertainment (UK)
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Release date
5 March 2010 (2010-03-05) (United Kingdom)
16 April 2010 (2010-04-16) (United States)
Running time
87 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
French
Box office
$5,308,618
Exit Through the Gift Shop: A Banksy Film is a 2010 British documentary film, directed by street artist Banksy. It tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles, and his obsession with street art. The film charts Guetta's constant documenting of his every waking moment on film, from a chance encounter with his cousin, the artist Invader, to his introduction to a host of street artists with a focus on Shepard Fairey and Banksy, whose anonymity is preserved by obscuring his face and altering his voice, to Guetta's eventual fame as a street artist himself. It is narrated by Rhys Ifans. The music is by Geoff Barrow. It includes Richard Hawley's "Tonight The Streets Are Ours".[1]
The film premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival on 24 January 2010, and it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Since its release, there has been extensive debate over whether the documentary is genuine or a mockumentary, although Banksy answered "Yes" when asked if the film is real.[2]
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Thierry Guetta is a French immigrant living in Los Angeles who runs a vintage clothing shop. He also has an obsession with carrying a camera everywhere and constantly filming his surroundings. On a holiday in France, he discovers his cousin is Invader, an internationally known street artist. Thierry finds this fascinating, and accompanies Invader and his friends, including the artists Monsieur André and Zevs on their nocturnal adventures, documenting their activities. A few months later, Invader visits Thierry in LA, and arranges a meeting with Shepard Fairey. Thierry continues filming Fairey's activities even after Invader has returned home to France. While Fairey is confused by Thierry's enthusiasm, Thierry states that he wishes to make a complete documentary about street art, and the two cross the nation, filming other artists at work, including Poster Boy, Seizer, Neck Face, Sweet Toof, Cyclops, Ron English, Dotmasters, Swoon, Azil, Borf and Buffmonster. What Guetta fails to tell Fairey is that he has no plan to compile his footage into an actual film, and never looks at his footage.
Guetta continues to hear more about Banksy – a prominent and particularly secretive artist. His attempts to contact Banksy are unsuccessful, until one day Banksy visits LA without his usual accomplice, who is refused entry to the US. Stuck in LA without a guide, Banksy contacts Fairey, who calls Guetta. Guetta becomes Banksy's guide in LA, later following him back to England, winning the privilege to film Banksy on his home turf – a feat that confuses Banksy's crew. Banksy, however, sees the opportunity to document street art, which he recognizes as having a "short life span", and after Guetta aids him in recording both production, deployment and crowd reactions to his "Murdered Phone-box" piece, asks him to film the preparations for his "Barely Legal" show. The two become friends, as Guetta provides Banksy with some relief from his anonymity. Returning to LA, Guetta becomes bored, and eventually produced his own stickers and decals, putting them up in the city.
Banksy's show is being prepared in Skid Row, Los Angeles, and while in LA, Banksy decides deploying a Guantanamo Bay detainee doll in Disneyland. He visits the location and places the doll while Guetta films it. A short while later, however, the rides stop, and the park's security catch Guetta, who is taken to an interrogation room, while Banksy switches clothes and blends into the crowd. During interrogation, Guetta refuses to admit any wrongdoing, and when allowed a phone call, covertly alerts Banksy to his situation. When confronted by security personnel, he destroys the evidence in his stills camera, but stashes the videotape in his sock and is eventually let go, much to the amazement of Banksy who then says he trusts him implicitly because of the incident.
A few days later, "Barely Legal" opens, and becomes an overnight success. Street art prices begin to rocket in auction houses. Banksy is stunned by the sudden hype surrounding street art, and urges Guetta to finish his supposed documentary. Guetta begins to edit together the several thousand hours of footage, and produces a film titled Life Remote Control. The result is 90 minutes of distorted fast cutting about random themes. Banksy questions Guetta's ability as a filmmaker, deeming his product "unwatchable", but realizes the street art footage itself is valuable. Banksy decides to try producing a film himself. To ensure that Guetta remains occupied, Banksy suggests he makes his own art show.
"I think the joke is on... I don’t know who the joke is on, really. I don’t even know if there is a joke."
— Banksy's former spokesman Steve Lazarides
Guetta accepts the assignment, adopting the name "Mr. Brainwash", putting up street art in the city and six months later, re-mortgaging his business to afford renting copious equipment and a complete production team to create pieces of art under his supervision. He rents a former CBS studio to prepare his first show, "Life Is Beautiful", and scales up his production to something much larger than Banksy suggested, but with little focus. When Guetta breaks his foot after falling off a ladder, Banksy realises that the show may become a trainwreck, and sends a few professionals to help Guetta out. While the producers take care of the practical side of the show, Guetta spends his time on more publicity, asking support from both Fairey and Banksy, eventually taping up huge billboards with their quotes, and ultimately ending up on the cover of L. A. Weekly. Preparation is seriously behind schedule, and Guetta's production team insists that he must make decisions—yet Guetta spends his time hyping up and marketing his work for tens of thousands of dollars. Eight hours before the opening, paintings are still missing from the walls, and since Guetta is busy giving interviews, the eventual layout of the show is decided by the crew itself.
Despite all this, however, the show becomes a raging success with the crowd, and after the first week of the show, Guetta sells almost a million dollars worth of art, with his pieces showing in galleries all around the world, to the utter confusion of both Fairey and Banksy. In an ending montage, Guetta insists that time will tell whether he is a real artist or not.
Production[edit]
Banksy has said in interviews that editing the film together was an arduous process, noting that "I spent a year [...] watching footage of sweaty vandals falling off ladders"[3] and "The film was made by a very small team. It would have been even smaller if the editors didn't keep having mental breakdowns. They went through over 10,000 hours of Thierry's tapes and got literally seconds of usable footage out of it."[4] Producer Jaimie D'Cruz wrote in his production diary that obtaining the original tapes from Thierry was particularly complicated.
Reception and hoax speculation[edit]
Film industry veterans John Sloss and Bart Walker founded a new distribution company to release the film in the US, Producers Distribution Agency (PDA).[5] With a unique grassroots campaign, PDA brought the film to a US theatrical gross of $3.29MM.[6] The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews, holding 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, and was nominated for Best Documentary in the 2011 Academy Awards.[7] One consistent theme in the reviews was the authenticity of the film: Was the film just an elaborate ruse on Banksy's part, or did Guetta really evolve into Mr. Brainwash overnight? The Boston Globe movie reviewer Ty Burr found it to be quite entertaining and awarded it four stars. He dismissed the notion of the film being a "put on", saying that "I'm not buying it; for one thing, this story’s too good, too weirdly rich, to be made up. For another, the movie’s gently amused scorn lands on everyone."[8] Roger Ebert gave it 3.5 stars out of 4, writing: "The widespread speculation that 'Exit Through the Gift Shop' is a hoax only adds to its fascination."[9] In an interview with SuicideGirls,[10] filmmakers Jaimie D'Cruz and Chris King denied that it was a hoax, and expressed their growing frustration with the speculation that it was: "For a while we all thought that was quite funny, but it went on for so long. It was a bit disappointing when it became basically accepted as fact, that it was all just a silly hoax ... I felt it was a shame that the whole thing was going to be dismissed like that really – because we knew it was true."[11]
The New York Times movie reviewer Jeannette Catsoulis wrote that the film could be a new subgenre, a "prankumentary".[12]
Guetta in an interview said: "This movie is 100% real. Banksy captured me becoming an artist. In the end, I became his biggest work of art."[13]
Guetta faced copyright issues following the release of the film. Glen Friedman, a prominent American photographer,[14] successfully sued Guetta over the use of a photograph of the rap group Run DMC.[15] Guetta tried to claim that he had altered it enough to be considered an original piece of art. However the presiding judge over the case, Judge Pregerson, ultimately ruled Friedman’s photograph was protected under the transformative fair use law.[citation needed] Guetta also faced copyright claims from Joachim Levy, a Swiss filmmaker, who edited and produced Guetta’s film Life Remote Control,[16] clips of which were shown in the film. Levy was not credited for his work he did on the film, however Guetta owned the footage which was then licensed to Banksy.[16]
New York Film Critics Online bestowed its Best Documentary Award on the film in 2010. French journalist Marjolaine Gout gave it 4 stars out of 5, linking Mr. Brainwash and Jeff Koons and criticizing Thierry Guetta's art as toilet papering.[17]
Oscilloscope Laboratories released Exit Through the Gift Shop on DVD and Blu-ray in 2011.[18]
Archival footage[edit]
The film's opening montage features archival footage from notable street art films from across the world. Films include Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe, Infamy, Megpoid, Next, Open Air, The Lyfe, Popaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English, Rash, Restless Debt of the Third World, Spending Time, Turf War, Elis G The Life of a Shadow, Memoria Canalla, C215 in London, Beautiful Losers.[19]
References[edit]
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Willmore, Alison, "Exit Through The Gift Shop: It's a madhouse, this modern life.", The Independent Eye, IFC reviews of the Sundance Film Festival, 27 January 2010
Jump up ^ "Frequently asked questions". Archived from the original on 3 January 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
Jump up ^ Kylie Northover (29 May 2010). "Drawn from the shadows, wanted man comes out to play". The Sydney Morning Herald.
Jump up ^ Shelley Leopold. "Banksy Revealed?".
Jump up ^ ""Exit" Strategy: Bringing Banksy to the Masses". indiewire.com. 7 April 2010.
Jump up ^ "Box Office Mojo box office results". boxofficemojo.com.
Jump up ^ "Oscar nominations 2011: Complete list of Academy Award nominees". The Washington Post. 25 January 2011. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
Jump up ^ Burr, Ty, "Exit Through the Gift Shop: Writing’s on the wall: In ‘Exit,’ street art scene becomes a farce", The Boston Globe, 23 April 2010
Jump up ^ "Exit Through the Gift Shop". Chicago Sun-Times.
Jump up ^ "Jaimie D'Cruz and Chris King: Exit Through the Gift Shop". SuicideGirls.com. 14 Dec 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2011. .
Jump up ^ "Jaimie D'Cruz and Chris King: Exit Through the Gift Shop". SuicideGirls.com. 14 December 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
Jump up ^ Catsoulis, Jeannette, "On the Street, at the Corner of Art and Trash", The New York Times, 16 April 2010."“Exit” could be a new subgenre: the prankumentary. Audiences, however, would be advised simply to enjoy the film on its face — even if that face is a carefully contrived mask."
Jump up ^ Felch, Jason, "Getting at the truth of 'Exit Through the Gift Shop'", The Los Angeles Times, 22 February 2011.
Jump up ^ Friedman, Glen, Glen E. Friedman#Books and exhibitions with significant Friedman contributions (partial listing)4
Jump up ^ Run DMC Photograph
^ Jump up to: a b The New York Times, Life Remote Control footage lawsuit
Jump up ^ "Review of Exit Through the Gift Shop". Ecranlarge (in French).
Jump up ^ "Oscilloscope to Release Banksy DVD". Variety.
Jump up ^ Credits, 'Archival footage', Exit Through the Gift Shop.
Further reading[edit]
"Banksy film to debut at Sundance". BBC News. BBC. 21 January 2010. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
Knegt, Peter (21 January 2010). "Sundance Surprise: Banksy's "Gift Shop"". indieWire. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
"Sundance 2010: Banksy rocks festival with 'Gift Shop'". Los Angeles Times. 25 January 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
"FILM REVIEW: Exit Through The Gift Shop". Culture Northern Ireland. 9 March 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
Jackson, Candace; Schuker, Lauren A. E., "Mr. Brainwash: For Real?", The Wall Street Journal, 12 February 2010.
Ryzik, Melena, "Riddle? Yes. Enigma? Sure. Documentary?", The New York Times, 13 April 2010.
Michael Hutak, Exit Through the Foyer. Review of Australian première at the 2010 Sydney Film Festival; critiques the film for posing as hoax.
External links[edit]
Official website
Exit Through the Gift Shop on IMDb
Exit Through the Gift Shop at Rotten Tomatoes
'Shenanigans Are What He Does': Is Banksy Gunning For An Oscar? – audio report by NPR
Exit Through the Gift Shop: Cavemen to the Right Film Review, Bright Lights Film Journal
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Works
The Mild Mild West (1997)
Pulp Fiction
Gorilla in a Pink Mask
Bombing Middle England
Balloon Girl
Bomb Hugger
Ballerina with Action Man Parts
Parachuting Rat (2003)
Untitled (2004)
Fragile Silence
Space Girl and Bird
The Drinker
One Nation Under CCTV (2008)
Forgive Us Our Trespassing
Cardinal Sin (2011)
Slave Labour (2012)
Art Buff
Self Portrait
Spy Booth (2014)
Dismaland (2015)
The Son of a Migrant from Syria (2015)
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Barely Legal (2006)
The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
Related
Bankrobber London
Leake Street
Think Tank (2003)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
"MoneyBart" (2010)
The Antics Roadshow (2011)
Better Out Than In (2013)
Banksy Does New York (2014)
The Banksy Job (2016)
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