Men's League for Women's Suffrage (United Kingdom)
The Men's League for Women's Suffrage was a society formed in 1907 in London and was part of the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom.
Men's League for Women's Suffrage badge (UK)
Masthead of the paper of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage Monthly Paper
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
A movement to fight for women's right to vote in the United Kingdom finally succeeded through acts of Parliament 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 Reform Act 1832 and the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. 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, Scotland 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).
WSPU poster by Hilda Dallas, 1909.
A handbill complaining about sexual discrimination during the movement.
WSPU poster 1914
WSPU founders Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst