The Socialist League was an early revolutionary socialist organisation in the United Kingdom. The organisation began as a dissident offshoot of the Social Democratic Federation of Henry Hyndman at the
The cover of the Socialist League's manifesto of 1885 featured art by Walter Crane, a member of the group.
The Commonweal was the official organ of the Socialist League.
Edward Bibbins Aveling was an English comparative anatomist, botanist and popular spokesman for Darwinian evolution, atheism, and socialism. He was also a journalist, editor, playwright, actor, short
Aveling in 1886
Aveling's teaching adverts in Nature November 1875
Title page of the first English-language edition of Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, published in London by Swan Sonnenschein & Co. in 1892
Wilhelm Liebknecht, Eleanor Marx and Aveling in North America, 1886