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Britain since the Romans

Britain since the Romans. 6 : The Age of Extremes. Oscar Wilde. 1906 : first free school meals 1908 : first old age pensions (5 shillings a week) 1909 : first Labour Exchanges 1911 : National health insurance act. 1914 Outbreak of the First World War 1916 Introduction of Conscription.

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Britain since the Romans

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  1. Britain since the Romans 6 : The Age of Extremes

  2. Oscar Wilde

  3. 1906 : first free school meals 1908 : first old age pensions (5 shillings a week) 1909 : first Labour Exchanges 1911 : National health insurance act

  4. 1914 Outbreak of the First World War 1916 Introduction of Conscription

  5. A British cemetery in France

  6. 1924 : First Labour government 1926 : General strike 1929 : Second Labour government 1931: « National Government » 1936: Cable Street

  7. 1926 General Strike : the government newspaper

  8. 1926 General Strike : union newspaper

  9. Ramsay Macdonald : the first Prime Minister from the Labour Party

  10. Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader

  11. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955

  12. The Blitz

  13. The effects of the Blitz in Manchester

  14. Dresden

  15. The Windrush, carrying Caribbean immigrants to England

  16. Aneuran Bevan, who founded the National Health Service in 1948

  17. High Rise flats built in the 1960s

  18. A Republican mural in Northern Ireland

  19. A unionist paramilitary mural in Northern Ireland

  20. 1977 The Sex Pistols

  21. 1970 : Founding of the Gay Liberation Front in Britain, based on its American counterpart

  22. 1979-1997 Conservative government (Margaret Thatcher 1979-1990; John Major 1990-1997)

  23. 1972 : the Pentonville five

  24. March 1984 to March 1985: The Great Miners’ Strike

  25. 1990 : the Poll Tax and the Poll Tax Revolt

  26. 1993 : the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence led to major reforms.

  27. 1997 : after eighteen years of Conservative government, Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister with his « New Labour » party

  28. 1999: important reform of the House of Lords

  29. 1997 : Referendums decide on more autonomy for Wales and Scotland

  30. 2004 Demonstration against the war in Iraq

  31. 2010 : A second inquiry into Bloody Sunday

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