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• 1902 Education Act
Abolished all 2568 school boards and handed over their duties to local boroughs or county councils. Became major political issue. Includes background information.
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• 1906 General Election
Features total votes and percents received by the Conservative Party and Liberal Unionists, Liberals, Labour Party and Irish Nationalists. Includes brief description of terms.
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• 1906 Provision of School Meals Act
Permitted local authorities to provide school meals. Includes brief details.
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• 1906 Trades Disputes Act
Removed trade union liability for damage by strike action.
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• 1906 Trades Disputes Act
Removed trade union liability for damage by strike action.
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• 1908 Old Age Pensions Act
Provided between 1s. and 5s. a week to people over seventy. These pensions were only paid to citizens on incomes that were not over 12s. Includes brief details.
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• 1910 General Election
Features total votes and percents received by the Conservative Party and Liberal Unionists, Liberals, Labour Party and Irish Nationalists. Includes brief description of terms.
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• 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
Offers the 11th Edition Encyclopedia Britannica which is now in the public domain. All articles are searchable and alphabetized.
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• 1911 National Insurance Act
Gave the British working classes the first contributory system of insurance against illness and unemployment. Includes brief details.
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• 1911 Parliament Act
Prevented the House of Lords right to pass "money bills" and restricted their ability to delay other legislation to three sessions of parliament. Also reduced the maximum length of time between general elections from seven years to five and provided payment for members of Parliament.
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• 1913 Cat & Mouse Act
Refers to a means of dealing with women prisoners' hunger strikes. Includes postcard and brief summary.
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• 1913 Trade Union Act
Gave unions the right to divide subscriptions into political and social funds. Includes brief details.
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• 1913 Trade Union Act
Gave unions the right to divide its subscriptions into a political and a social fund.
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• 1914 Defence of the Realm Act
Gave the government emergency powers to requisition property, apply censorship, control labour and removed traditional civil liberties. Includes brief text.
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• 1916 Military Service Act
Mandated conscription (compulsory enrollment) in the army. Includes brief details.
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• 1918 General Election
Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Liberals, Labour Party, Sinn Fein, and Conservative, Labour, Independent and NDP Coalitions. Includes brief description of terms.
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• 1918 Qualification of Women Act
Granted women the vote in parliamentary elections. Includes selections from speeches and excerpts from several writers.
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• 1918 Qualification of Women Act
Explains how years of debate and protest resulted in Parliament allowing women to vote in a British General Election for the first time.
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• 1923 General Election
Features total votes and percents received by the Conservative, Liberal, Labour and Communist Parties, and Irish Nationalists. Includes brief description of terms.
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• 1924 General Election
Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Liberals, Labour Party, Sinn Fein, Communist Party and Constitutionalist. Includes brief description of terms.
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• 1924 General Election
Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Liberals, Labour Party, Sinn Fein, Communist Party and Constitutionalist. Includes brief description of terms.
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• 1924 Housing Act
Developed a partnership between political parties, local authorities and specially appointed committees of building employees and employers. Planned for building of 190,000 new council houses at modest rents in 1925.
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• 1927 Trade Disputes and Trade Union Act
Outlawed general strikes and sympathetic strikes, and banned civil servants from joining unions.
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• 1927 Trade Disputes and Trade Union Act
Outlawed general strikes and sympathetic strikes, and banned civil servants from joining unions.
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• 1929 General Election
Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Liberals, Labour Party, Communist Party and Irish Nationalists. Includes brief description of terms.
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• 1931 General Election
Features total votes and percents received by the Conservatives, Liberals, Labour Party, National Liberals, Communist Party, Irish Nationalists, National Party, National Labour and Independent Liberal. Includes brief description of terms.
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• 1935 General Election
Features total votes and percents received by the Conservative, Liberal, Labour, National and Communist Parties, National Liberals, Irish Nationalists, National Labour and Independent Labour Party. Includes brief description of terms.
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• 1936 Public Order Act
Gave the Home Secretary the power to ban marches in the London area and also made it an offense to wear political uniforms and use threatening and abusive words.
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• 1945 General Election
Features total votes and percents received by the Conservative, Liberal, Communist and Labour Parties, National Liberals, Irish Nationalists, National and Independent Labour Parties. Includes brief description of terms.
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• 1950 General Election
Features total votes and percents received by the Conservative, Liberal, Communist, National Liberal, Labour, National and Independent Labour Parties, and Sinn Fein. Includes brief description of terms.
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• 1951 General Election
Features total votes and percents received by the Conservative, Liberal, Communist, National Liberal, Labour, National and Irish Labour Parties, and Sinn Fein. Includes brief description of terms.
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• A Modern Herbal
Index of more than 800 varieties of herbs and plants, word search of the text, recipes, and an index of poisonous plants.
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• Abadan
City in Iran with 300,000 inhabitants. Situated in the south-western corner of Iran, on the island of Abadan.
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• Abbas
Uncle of Muhammad. Successful merchant, and was known for the grandeur that he surrounded himself with during his travels. Stories tell that he was in charge of the Zamzam.
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• Abbasids
Caliphate dynasty ruling from 750 until 1258. All of one big family that claimed to descend from Abbas, an uncle of Muhammad.
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• Abdu l-Karim
Moroccan politician and liberation fighter and leader.
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• Abdu l-Qadir
Emir, religious and military resistance fighter against the French occupation of Algeria.
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• Abdullah, King
King of Jordan. Was named crown prince less than 2 weeks before he was sworn in as regent of Jordan, following the declaration of the clinical death of his father, Hussein 1.
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• Aberdeen
Seaport on the northeast coast of Scotland and was the largest fishing port in the country. Includes brief history and excerpt from a work by Daniel Defoe.
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• Aberdeen
Seaport on the northeast coast of Scotland and was the largest fishing port in the country. Includes brief history and excerpt from a work by Daniel Defoe.
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