KP/AK/4/2/4 - National League for Opposing Woman-Suffrage badge

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National League for Opposing Woman-Suffrage badge

1910-1918

2 Artefacts

National League for Opposing Woman-Suffrage
Merchant Portrait Company

Two badges. Pink, black and cream badge with a botanical theme. One of the badges has a matching pink, black and white ribbon [this second badge was a 2022 donation from Maureen Crouch, former UEA student 1972-1975; the badge was amongst her grandmother's possessions].

Badge produced by National League for Opposing Woman-Suffrage. The NLOWS was founded in 1910 in London, after the merger of the Women’s National Anti-Suffrage League and the Men’s League for Opposing Woman Suffrage, to oppose granting voting rights to women in the UK. Reasons given for this opposition included: doubts women would be able to make sound political decisions due to their emotional nature, fears that if women became involved in politics, they would stop having children and the human race would die out, claims that women were already represented by their husbands, and so on. The organisation ceased to exist after the 1918 Representation of the People Act.