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.
All British Reform and Suffrage Movements
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Chartism (Wikipedia)
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Chartism was a working-class movement for political reform in the United Kingdom that lasted from 1838 to 1857 and was strongest in 1839, 1842 and 1848.
View the Source Women's Suffrage in the United Kingdom (Wikipedia)
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Women's right to vote in the United Kingdom was established through acts of Parliament in 1918 and 1928.
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