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League of Church Militant


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 106 5LCM

Held at: Women's Library

Title: League of Church Militant

Date(s): 1928

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.5 A box (1 folder)

Name of creator(s): League of Church Militant

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The League of Church Militant (1909-1928) was founded as the Church League for Women's in 1909, a non-party organisation open to members of the Church of England who wished to campaign 'to secure for women the vote in Church and State.' In 1917 it became the League of Church Militant with aims including the establishment of equal rights and opportunities for men and women both in Church and State and the 'settlement of all international questions on the basis of right, not of might.' After the end of the First World War it shifted its main attention to the following aim, as adopted at a Council meeting in 1919: 'To challenge definitely … what has hitherto been the custom of the Church of confining the priesthood to men.' After the Franchise Act received Royal Assent in 1928, the League felt that one of its main aims had been realised and that, whilst it still desired to see women ordained to the ministry of the Church, felt that this might be better carried on through other means. In 1928 it therefore decided to wind up its affairs. The campaign for the ordination of women was continued by the Anglican Group for the Ordination of Women (f 1930) and many of those, including E Louie Acres, who had been active in the League, were prominent within the Group.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The archive consists of one file relating to the dissolution of the League of Church Militant, including some information about its history, 1928.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

This collection is available for consultation. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

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Finding aids:

Collection level description available on-line on the Women's Library website

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Found with unlisted material of unknown provenance, 1993 and given the reference M/LCM. Formally accessioned, Jul 2003.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Related material:

The Women's Library also holds papers of Agnes Maude Royden (7AMR) and of the Anglican Group for the Ordination of Women (5AGO). Pamphlets and periodicals of the Church League for Women's Suffrage and the League of Church Militant are held amongst The Women's Library's Printed Collections.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 25/01/2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Clergy | Religious groups
Equal opportunity | Social and economic rights
Gender discrimination | Discrimination | Social problems
Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Women | Sex | Sex distribution
Womens employment | Employment
Womens organizations | Associations | Organizations
Womens status | Womens rights | Rights of special groups
Womens suffrage | Electoral systems | Internal politics

Personal names

Corporate names
League of Church Militant

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