The Experience of Warfare In Britain Part 3

Conflicting political ideology:

• Boers want to stay independent
• British 'want to unite control'

Tenstion between political leaders:

• Rose- Worried about economic power Transval.
• Kruger- President of Transval

The Uitlander Franchise:-

• Voting rights
• Causes train between Utalnder and Britain
• Had to be in the country for 14 years, in order to reamin in control.

The Jameson Raid:

• Began 29th total failure and had no support
• British colony that would join all the other colonies
• Take advantage of the drif crisis and support armed uprisings.

The discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand:

• South africa became the single gold producer
• Prospectors streamed in.
• Transval fear they're out number

• Very small
• Server discipline
• Poorly trained- outdated tactics.
• Army wore Khaki and armed with morden Lee-Metford rifles.
• Private soldiers drawn from poorest in societ, urban unemployee's
• Poor pay
• Reguarly Food (3 sqaure meals aday)
• Officers still drawn from upper classes.

Images:

• Wounded soilders
• Pitched battles.
• Proud/ undeafted British soilders.
• Glorifying.

Daily male:

• National press, had wide appeal
• Founded 1996
• Simple, targeted masses.
• Very patriotic

Conon-Doyle:

• Reads like a novel
• War is on adventure.
• Poetic
• Detailed.

Public opinion:

• Depressing
• Demand for information.
• Community spirit.

Churchill:-

• Realistic
• Reads like a novel.
• British victory.
• Vague, lacking detail

Free school meals (1906)

The Childrens Act (1908)

• Prosuctions for cruelity to children.
• Social suffers essiantially.
• All childrens home were regestered and investigated.
• Children under 14 could not be sent to adult prisons.
• Juvienile courts set up.
• Borstals set up to deal with deliquent children.
• Children under 14 not allowed in pubs.
• Smoking was banned under 16.

School medical inspections (1907)

The Labour Exchanges Act (1909)

• Unemployed workers got help finding jobs.

School clinics (1912)

• Provide free medical treatment to children in eductation.

The National Insurance Act (1911)

• All manual and people in white-collar jobs had to join.
• Workers paid 4d for insurance stamps.
• Employers contribut 3d for each worker in the scheme.
• The Goverment contributed 2d for each worker in the scheme.
• Illness- 10s a week for 13wks then 5s a week for further 13 wks in any one year.

• Dysentry and Enetric played a heavy role.
• Not much had improved since the Crimea.
• 850 doctors accompanied

• Was a huge effort.
• Most of the Armys man power was put into guarding the railways and slow convoys.

• Improvment appeared inadequate
• Officers were to old.
• Expencive failure £210 millilon

• Group work allowed for increased control.
• Allowed people to do there speacilist jobs.
• Training for soliders and time listing so soilders were prepaied.
• More camoflaged uniform- United them as one army.
• Lower costs for uniform
• Not alot of time in full warfare, Reserves
• Terrorital force created as a sort of reserve army, could deploy on there own
• New tatics created a fully functional force that was more professional.
• Training places established for soliders e.g. Sailsbury plains.
• Staff officers needed to be trained just as much as the soilders.
• Realistic.
• Started thinking ahead- State of emergency peperations.
• No longer deffencive more enthisam on Attacking

• Stimulating patriotism
• Civilising missions of the British Empire.
• Baden Powell- Scouting movements
• Brought the empire together to create a Imperial

• Stimulated fierce critism of the Imperialsim

• J.Hobson argued mal-distribution at home meant that domestic markets were under-consumption due excess savings being wated.
• Forced to seek less dependable outlets (but cheaper) abroaed

• British political and historical
• Liberal party
• Exploting patrotic sentiment