The widely held, and wholly false, belief that before the suffragettes, men in Britain had the vote and women did not

In Edwardian Britain some women could vote, but many men could not

The idea that men in Edwardian Britain had the vote and that women did not is such a strange one that it is, in retrospect, hard to know how it arose. Most probably, it is an example of subsequent generations taking suffragette propaganda at face value and not bothering to look at the facts behind the wild and intemperate rhetoric of the time.