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1889
Charles Booth Publishes book on poverty in London
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1890s
Conservatives in power, bad l+w/ing conditions
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1897
NUWSS formed by Milicent Fawcett
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1900
Labour Party Formed
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1901
Seebohm Rowntree- York Poverty Study
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1903
WSPU formed by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst
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1905
Balfour (con) resigns, Campbell-Bannerman (Lib) New MP, Renewed unemployed Workman Act
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1906
General Election- Liberal Landslide, Free school meals act
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1907
Free Medical Inspections for children, NUWSS 'Mud March'
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1908
Children's Act (Charter), Old Age Pensions Act, Asquith becoes PM, Split starts between NUWSS and WSPU
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1909
People's Budget, Labour Exchange Act. Start of force feeding.
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1910
Jan-General Election, Dec- General Election, Failure of conciliation bill, Black Friday
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1911
National Insurance Act Part 1, 2nd Failure of Conciliation Bill, New Reform Bill.
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1912
School Clinics, National Insurance Act Part 2, Mass window smashing
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1913
Emily Davison killed at Epsom Derby, Parliament reject Female Suffrage act, Cat and Mouse Act, Womens Pilgramage
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1914
28 July- WW1 starts, DORA, WSPU postpone campaign to help war effort, all WSPU prisoners released, U-Boat attack on British Merchant Ships.
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1915
Suffragettes organise demonstration campaigning female labour called 'the right to serve', Asquith forms coalition with conservatives, National Register Formulated, Derby scheme -voluntary service, Munitions Crisis, Gallipoli Campaign
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1916
Jan + May Military Service Act- conscription, Lloyd-George becomes PM. July- Battle of the Somme
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1917
Convoys to protect cargo ships introduced, Local councils and shopkeepers introduce rationing schemes
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1918
Compulsory Rationing, Women get the vote - Representation of the People Act, 11 Nov- end of ww1,
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