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How many married women were in employment in 1911?
10%
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What does NUWSS stand for?
National Union of Women's Sufferage Society
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Famous member of NUWSS
Millicent Fawcett, married to Liberal MP Henry Fawcett
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What does WSPU stand for?
Women's Social and Political Union
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When was WSPU created and by who?
1903, Emmeline Pankhurst
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What happened at a Liberal Party meeting in 1905?
Sylvia Pankhurst spat on and struck a policeman
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When was WFL set up and whats its full name?
1907, Women's Freedom League
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Who's Henry Campbell-Bannerman?
Liberal PM, Supporter of votes for women
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When was votes for women first considered?
1908
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When did Parliament vote for women's votes?
1911
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When did the stone throwing operation start?
1912
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When did suffragettes break windows? How many arrested?
4 pm, 1st March - 219 arrested
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When was the Suffragette Derby?
1913
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What occurred at the Suffragette Derby?
Emily Davidson killed by Kings horse
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Opposition organisations?
Men's League for Opposing Women's suffrage - Women's National Anti-suffrage League
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How did women continue protests in prison?
Hunger Strikes
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What was created to prevent hunger strikes?
Prisoners Temporary Discharge for Ill Health Act - 1913
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What was made known as the cat and mouse act?
Prisoners Temporary Discharge for Ill Health Act - 1913
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Representation of the People Act?
1918 - Women over 30 could vote
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When were women given the same voting rights as men?
1928
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Rowntrees findings?
43% of York living under poverty line
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What did Rowntree set poverty line as?
£1 a week
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1902 what did Booth publish?
Almost 1/3 Londoners below poverty line - linked with early death
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What was the third piece of evidence for poverty?
1899 Boer war, 40% men too unfit for military service
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Schools Meals Act?
1906
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By 1914 how many children received meals
150,000
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When was School medical service set up?
1907
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When was treatment made free?
1912
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The Children and Young Persons Act?
1908, illegal to insure a childs life
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Childrens Charter?
1908 - working hours limited, special juvenile courts, child care committees etc
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The Old Age Pension Act
1908, people over 70 years old
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Amount of pensions recieved?
25p to 5p for a week - max 37.5p for a married couple
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In the first year how many pensioners? How many by 1914?
650,000 - nearly 1 million
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Labour Exchange Act
1909
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By 1914 how many registered workers?
Over 1 million, over 400 labour exchanges
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National Insurance Act
1911
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How long could you claim unemployment benefit for?
15 weeks
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How much was compulsory illness insurance for workers over £3 a week?
Worker = 4d , employer = 3d, government = 2d
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How much would u recieve for sick pay?
50p a week, for max 26 weeks
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How much was recieved for a birth of a child?
£1.50
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When did WW1 start?
3rd August 1914
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How many were in BEF at first?
70,000
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First encounter with Germany, how many troops did Germany have?
160,000
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When was the Battle of Mons?
(Southern Belgium) 22nd August 1914
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What was the Schlieffen Plan?
Take over France by going around Paris not Franco-German boarder
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Why did the Schlieffen Plan go wrong?
Germany went south too early, took too long in Belgium
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When was the Battle of Marne and what did it achieve?
5-11th September 1914 - Germans retreated 60km, Schlieffen Plan failed
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Casualties at Ypres?
134,000 Germans - 142,000 French and British (winners)
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How long was the Western Front?
600km
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What did Verdun achieve?
500,000 French casualties - 400,000 Germans - no change
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When was Verdun?
February - Mid-July 1916
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German machine gun numbers?
12,000 at beginning, 100,000 by end of war
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How many bullets used a minute by machine guns?
400-600
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When was gas first used?
By Germans in April 1915 at second battle of Ypres
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Two types of gas?
Chlorine - suffocation, mustard - ate lungs
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How many artillery shells did Britain fire?
Over 170 million
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When were tanks first used?
By Britain at the Somme
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In 1917 how far did the tanks push back the Germans
Nearly 80km
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When was the Somme?
July 1916
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Who was British chief-commander at the Somme
Haig
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How long was the artillery bombardment for at the Somme
7 days
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When did the Battle of the Somme end?
November 1916
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How many deaths at Somme?
500,000 Germans - 620,000 French and British
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When did the USA declare war on Germany
April 1917
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When did Germany make peace with Russia?
3rd March 1918
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By July how many USA troops were arriving at Western Front each month?
250,000
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What does DORA stand for?
Defence of the Realm Act - August 1914
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Things affected by DORA?
Censorship, Industry, Personal restrictions, Propaganada
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When was the munition crisis?
1915
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When were pubs allowed to be open?
Midday to 2:30 pm - 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
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How many men signed up in September 1914?
175,000 - after that 100,000 each month
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Military Service Act?
January 1916 - Single men 18-41 could be called
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When was Military Service Act extended to married men?
May 1916
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How many of conscientious objectors absolutists? What were done to them?
1,500 out of 16,000 - they were sent to prison
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When did Germany announce all merchant ships entering British waters would be sunk?
February 1915
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How many U-Boats did Germany have?
1915 = 21, by 1917 = 200
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Restrictions of food?
1916 white bread, 1917 meet
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When was compulsory rationing introduced?
1918 - Sugar (Jan), Margarine (May), Jam (May), Tea (May), Butter (May)
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When was 'Right to serve' demonstartion
July 1915 in London
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Women working in Woolwich Arsenal (munition factory)?
125 in 1914, by 1917 over 27,000
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By the end of the war how many women worked in engineering jobs?
800,000
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When could women work in armed forces?
1917
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How many women nurses close to the Front?
23,000
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Parliment Qualification of Women Bill?
1918 - women could become MPs
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In 1918 how many women candidates?
17 out of 1,623. Only 1 elected
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Who previously had the seats of the first 3 female MPs?
Their husbands
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When was the first female member of the government?
1924, Margaret Bondfield
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Within 18 months how many women left their war work?
3/4
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When did most girls leave school? How many were in education till 18?
14 years old, less than 1% after 18
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How many places did Oxford offer women? When did Cambridge offer women?
750 - 1948
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What could women divorce for?
Adultery as of 1923
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How many were killed in 1911 strike in Liverpool?
4 strikers
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Who did the Triple Alliance contain?
Miners, railway men and transport workers
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Police Act?
1919 - prevent Police from striking
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How many working days lost in 1921?
Over 85 million
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By 1920 how many workers in trade unions?
8 million
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When were mines returned to previous owners?
March 1921
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What happened because of cut to coal price?
Wages cut up to 50%, increased working hours
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Black Friday?
15th April 1921 - miners strike, rest of triple alliance backed out
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Red Friday?
31st July 1925 - subsidy to keep wages same for 9 months
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When did the subsidy run out?
20th April 1926
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When did the general strike start?
4th May 1926
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How many joined general strike?
3 million, nearly 100% in some unions
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How many people volunteered as special constables?
226,000
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When did the general strike end?
12th May 1926 - TUC talk to government
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How much had been spent during strike?
TUC = £4 million, Government = £433 million
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When did miners return to work?
November 1926
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Trades Dispute Act?
1927, prevent sympathy strikes
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