Changes in the role of the people 1790-1918
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- Created on: 18-06-18 21:19
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- Changes to the role of the People 1790-1918
- Financial role
- War bonds
- Increased taxes
- Increased workforce
- Total War- women recruited
- Leaving certificates, ban on strikes, state-owned factories
- Industrial Revolution- middle classes have more money (can afford taxes)
- Empire- more moneym, can afford taxes and loans
- Press and connection with wars
- War correspon-dence
- Increased literacy rates
- Better printing technology made newspapers cheaper
- War photography
- War films
- Propaganda songs in pubs
- Support for war (advertising imperial)
- Decreased support for war (Crimea- Palmerston's government brought down)
- Air-force seen as knightly
- Social impact
- Decreased class divisions in trenches
- Increased trade union membership and Labour support
- 'War socialism'
- Middle class leadership
- Increased franchise
- Bereavement
- Financial role
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