British Reform and Suffrage Movements

Popular movements of Britain, from the English Civil War of the 1640s through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, that campaigned to widen the vote and to secure constitutional rights, namely the Levellers, Chartism and the movement for votes for women. A movement belongs here when its cited source describes a British campaign for political rights. The group sits under the Civil Rights and Suffrage Movements subcategory of the Political Atlas and helps a reader browse that subcategory by the kind of political right each campaign sought. Each member is placed on the strength of the page it cites, so a reader can follow the grouping back to a stated source.