Yr 10 Revision

How was British Society changed, 1890-1918?

The Liberal Reforms

List the problems experienced by the poor in the early 1900s.

ReformersReformer Actions

Charles Booth He opened a hostel for destitute children and a home for orphaned children.

Seebohm Rowntree A journalist who investigated conditions of workers in the sweated trades. His findings appeared in the Morning Chronicle.

Henry Mayhew A successful business man, he collected evidence on poverty in London and went on to publish 17 volumes on the issue.

Dr Barnardo He demonstrated that 72% of York’s population lived below the poverty line and that there was a cycle of poverty.

What led to reform?

Can you explain these topics in context?Social reformersIncreasing information about povertyThe scale of the problemNational efficiency and the Boer WarNational efficiency and the workforceLloyd George and Winston ChurchillPolitical rivalry

Measures that were introduced...Areas What you know!

Children

The Old

The unemployed

Workers: The National Insurance Act

Sources

*John Bull is Britain

The Campaign for the vote

The Differences

Suffragette Suffragist

Arguments

For women getting the vote

Against women getting the vote

Government Reaction

How did the government react to this campaign?

True or False?• Emily Davison was killed trying to pin a

Suffragette banner to the King’s horse. T / F • The Suffragettes achieved the publicity they

wanted. T / F• The Suffragettes and the Suffragists worked

well together. T / F• The war made no difference to their cause. T / F• The suffragettes often resorted to hunger

strikes in prison, the government released them to get better only to put them back in prison. T / F

Bonus – what was this called?

Sources

*Inez Milholland Boissevain (August 6, 1886 - November 25, 1916) was a suffragist, labour lawyer, World War I correspondent, and public speaker who greatly influenced the women's movement in America. She died in 1916 whilst campaigning.

The Home front

DefinitionsTerm Definition

DORA The control of information.

Conscription Tactics used to encourage men to enlist

Propaganda Defence of the Realm Act (1916)

Conscientious Objector Someone who refused to fight due to their beliefs.

Censorship Men who fell into the 18-40 age group, without essential jobs, had to enlist.

Recruitment Information, ideas, or rumours deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation.

Effects

How were people at home affected by the war?

Sources