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The temperance movement in Britain first originated in 1832 when Joseph Livesey and seven Preston workingmen famously signed a pledge that they would never again drink alcohol. As a consequence of this action subsequent groups of working men followed the example of Livesey and his friends and by 1835 the British Association for the Promotion of Temperance was formed. In the beginning, temperance involved a promise not to drink spirits, members however continued to drink wine and beer, thus by the 1840s temperance societies began advocating teetotalism, this being a much stronger stance as it not only included a pledge to abstain from all alcohol for life but also a promise not to provide it to others. The British Women's Temperance Movement was later established in 1875, members of the movement were provided with the additional responsibility of persuading men never to drink alcohol again. |