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History in the 1910s
On the 15 February 1910 the Liberals won the election but lose their overall majority. The election precipitated by the Lords' rejection of the 'People's Budget' resulted in 275 seats for the Liberals, 273 for the Conservatives and 40 for Labour. The budget was then passed. The Irish Nationalists, with 82, were now in a position to force Irish 'Home Rule' back up the agenda.
On the 6 May 1910 Edward VII died and is succeeded by George V. Both Edward VII, who died in 1910, and his son, George V, ensured that the monarchy was more active than it had been in the latter years of Victoria's reign, but they exercised their influence discreetly. Edward's funeral brought together the royalty of Europe - many of them his relations - for the last time before war broke out in 1914.
On the 19 December 1910 the Liberals retain power in the second general election of the 1910. After the general election in February, efforts to broker a deal on parliamentary reform failed, and the Liberals went back to the polls at the end of the year. They and the Conservatives each secured 272 seats, and, with Labour supporting the Liberals, the Irish Nationalists held the balance of power.
On the 1 July 1911 the German gunboat provokes the 'Agadir crisis' with France. The Germans despatched a gunboat to the Moroccan port of Agadir to assert their rights against the French. A Franco-German settlement was negotiated, but the British were alarmed, fearing the Germans planned to turn Agadir into a naval base. As with the first Moroccan crisis in 1905, Germany only succeeded in strengthening the Entente Cordiale between Britain and France.
On the 10 August 1911 the House of Lords loses its power of veto over legislation. The Liberals finally forced through House of Lords reform, which had been on the cards for two years. The reforms meant that the Lords could not veto legislation that had passed the House of Commons in three successive sessions, and that parliament itself would be dissolved after five years, not seven. In separate legislation, pay for members of parliament was introduced.
In December 1911 the National Insurance Act provides cover against sickness and unemployment. Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George devised a contributory scheme of health insurance for those in employment, which provided payment for medical treatment. Grafted on to the act was a limited plan for unemployment benefit drawn up by Winston Churchill. With this legislation, the Liberals laid the foundations of the Welfare State.
On the 11 April 1912 the Liberals propose Irish 'Home Rule' for the third time. Reflecting their dependence on Irish Nationalist votes in the House of Commons, the Liberals proposed 'Home Rule' for Ireland. In response, Ulster Protestants and unionists formed the Ulster Volunteer Force, a paramilitary force which threatened the government with civil war if the measure was carried.
On the 13 April 1912 the Royal Flying Corps is established. The foundation of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) reflected British recognition of the growing importance of military aviation. In 1918, the RFC was amalgamated with the Royal Naval Air Service to form the Royal Air Force (RAF).
On the 15 April 1912 the 'Titanic' sinks with the loss of 1,503 lives. The White Star liner 'Titanic' was the largest vessel in the world at the time of her launch. Her builders and owners claimed that she was 'practically unsinkable', but on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York she collided with an iceberg and sank within hours, with the loss of 1,503 lives. 'Titanic' could carry over 3,500 people, but was equipped with only enough lifeboats to save 1,178, a fact that contributed to the massive loss of life.
On 4 June 1913 the Suffragette Emily Davison is killed by the king's horse.
Emily Wilding Davison was severely injured when she threw herself in front of the king's horse at the Derby, and died in hospital a few days later. The militancy of her organisation, the Women's Social and Political Union, proved counter-productive to the cause of women's rights, but the more moderate National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies also had little to show for its efforts through negotiation.
On 20 March 1914 the elements of the army say they won't enforce Irish 'Home Rule'. The officers of the 6th Cavalry Brigade, stationed outside Dublin, indicated that they would refuse to enforce Irish 'Home Rule' in Ulster if a parliamentary act proposing greater autonomy for Ireland were carried. The army was divided within itself, representing a potential flashpoint for the government. Irish Home Rule was shelved at the outbreak of World War One.
On 28 June 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb terrorist, in Sarajevo. The Austro-Hungarian government blamed Serbia and used the killing as a pretext for war. For most Britons this was an remote and insignificant event, but the conflict would escalate sharply, drawing in the 'Great Powers' and ultimately resulting in the outbreak of World War One.
On 23 July 1914 the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia provokes a crisis in Europe. On 6 July, Germany effectively gave unconditional backing to any action Austria-Hungary took regarding the recent assassination of its crown prince, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by a Bosnian Serb in Sarajevo. Austria-Hungary used this 'blank cheque' to deliver an ultimatum to Serbia on 23 July, which was widely recognised as little more than a pretext for war. With Russia standing by Serbia, Britain invited Germany to join a 'Great Power' conference to resolve the conflict, but Germany refused.
On the 5 November 1914 the Britain declares war on the Ottoman Empire. Germany formed an alliance with the Ottoman Empire on 2 August 1914, but the Turks resisted German pressure to enter the war until the end of October when it shelled Russian ports on the Black Sea. Britain, France and Russia responded with declarations of war. The Ottoman Empire in turn declared a military 'jihad' in November. The implications for Britain, with a vulnerable empire stretching across the Middle East to India and including a large Muslim population, were considerable.
On the 25 September 1915 the First British use of poison gas, at Loos, France. While the French attacked further south, the British struck at Loos, using chlorine gas for the first time in their initial attack. However, the wind was not favourable, and gains were limited. The battle continued until mid-October. The first use of poison gas in World War One was by the Germans on 22 April 1915 during the opening engagements of the Second Battle of Ypres.
On the 6 December 1916 David Lloyd George becomes prime minister. Prime Minister Herbert Asquith opposed the creation of a smaller war committee to run the war effort on a daily basis. His Liberal colleague and Minister for Munitions David Lloyd George, with the support of the Conservatives, used the split to force Asquith out and replace him as prime minister. Lloyd George set up a war cabinet whose members were freed from other cabinet duties.
On the 7 November 1917 Bolsheviks, under Vladimir Lenin, create a communist revolution in Russia. In February 1917, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was forced to abdicate after serious reverses in the war against Germany. A provisional government of liberals and moderate socialists was established, but it also failed on the battlefield and was overthrown in a carefully planned coup by the Bolsheviks, who promised 'peace, bread and land' to the war-weary Russian people. Inspired by the writings of Karl Mar, the Bolsheviks established a government based on the 'soviet' (governing council).
On the 11 December 1917 the General Edmund Allenby leads British forces into Jerusalem. After seizing Beersheba and Gaza in the first week of November, British forces under General Edmund Allenby forced the Turks to abandon Jerusalem. Prime Minister David Lloyd George described this as a 'Christmas present' for the British people at the end of a year when a conclusion to the war seemed remote.
On the 26 October 1918 Turkey opens armistice talks with Britain. With the Ottoman army in retreat on three of its four fronts - in Bulgaria, Syria and Iraq - the Turks opened negotiations to surrender. Unlike the negotiations with the other enemy powers, these were bilateral talks between the British and the Turks, with no French or Russian involvement.
14 December 1918 David Lloyd George's coalition wins the post-war election. This was the first election in which women voted. The results were Conservative and Coalition Liberals 509, Labour 72, Independent Liberals (former Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith's followers) 36, others 27. Although 73 members of Sinn Fein were elected, who included among their number Britain's first woman member of parliament Countess Constance Markievicz, they refused to take their seats.
On the 31 January 1919 the Massive rally in Glasgow sparks fears of a Russian-style revolution. Glasgow had a history of radicalism, and World War One turned it into a centre for organised protest against poor working conditions. The Liberal government feared this mass rally was the beginning of a working class revolution along the lines of the Russian Revolution of 1917. The rally was broken up by police, and troops and tanks were deployed on Clydeside. In reality, the protesters objectives were not that revolutionary - a 40-hour working week and a living wage.
On the 18 March 1919 the Rowlatt Act extends the suspension of civil liberties in India. The Rowlatt Act extended wartime 'emergency measures', such as detention without trial. Mohandas Gandhi of the Indian Congress Party asked Indians to use non-violent civil disobedience in protest against the act, and to refuse to cooperate with the British government. The 1918 Montagu-Chelmsford Report offered reform, but not self-rule - despite the sacrifices India had made in the war and US President Woodrow Wilson's declaration regarding national self-determination.
On the 10 April 1919 the British soldiers kill hundreds of unarmed Indian civilians at Amritsar, India. A large crowd attending a Sikh religious festival in defiance of British martial law was fired on without warning by troops under the command of Brigadier General Reginald Dyer. More than 300 people were killed. The 'Amritsar Massacre' crystallised growing Indian discontent with British rule, which was only heightened when Dyer faced no other punishment than an official censure. Led by Mohandas Gandhi, the Indian Congress Party now became a nationwide movement committed to independence.
On he 11 September 1919 the British government declares Sinn Fein's 'Dáil Eireann' (parliament) illegal. When the British government outlawed Sinn Fein's Dáil Eireann, it sparked a vicious two-year guerrilla war between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in southern Ireland and British forces, which included the hated 'Black and Tan' auxiliaries. With the IRA unable to deliver a decisive victory, and the British government increasingly worried about rising casualties and international criticism over its conduct of the war, a truce was called in July 1921.
On the 12 October 1919 the British troops are withdrawn from the civil war in Russia. In 1918, a British force had been sent to Archangel in Russia to prevent Allied stores falling into Bolshevik or German hands and to take pressure off the Western Front after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk had taken Russia out of World War One. The evacuation of Murmansk in 1919, and the evacuation of Archangel two weeks previously, ended the British attempt to intervene on the anti-Bolshevik ('White Russian') side in the civil war in northern Russia.
On the 23 December 1919 the exclusion of women from many jobs is made illegal. The Sex Disqualification Removal Act made it illegal for women to be excluded from most jobs, and allowed them to hold judicial office and enter the professions. Women could now become magistrates, solicitors and barristers.
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1910s mens fashion
In the 1910s men commonly wore three pieced lounge suits, but in 1914 and toward the end of the decade more men were seen wearing military uniforms. This could of been influenced be more people joining the military. The popular hair style was having hair parted at the side or middle and the rest of it was slickly comes back. At this time older men where still mostly seen with beards,and younger men had moustaches or went clean-shaven.
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1910s women’s fashion
this decade was still filled with frilly, puffed blouses and fluted skirts from the 1900s because they where still very popular. A slightly higher waistline was more fashionable during this time, as was a long tunic-like top worn over an ankle length A-line or 'hobble' skirt with a cinched in at the hem. Around the time of World War 1 (1914-1918), women adopted practical, working clothes and even workers cloths such as overalls and trousers. Hair was worn in a centre parting still like the 1900s which where still looped around pads to give the hair volume and false hair was created to do the same thing as the pads to create volume and a wide 'brim' of hair around the hairline.This hairstyle was worn under vast, broad hats with shallow crowns, heavily trimmed with flowers, ribbons and feathers. Towards the end of the decade, younger women sported short bobs.
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History in the 1900s
Lord Salisbury was re-elected on the 16th of October after the British successes Boer war. He usually wore a shirts with a stiff collar which was folded down. he wore waistcoat and jacket which hits the back off his calf. he wore lots of loose fitting trouser made from tweed. Having a leader who was regally seen in the media at the time could of influenced how others dressed by trying to immitate his look to look more upper class.
In 22 July 1901 the labour party was born. Their fashion was a lot like the normal mens fashion around at the time because they where normal men.
In 31 May 1902 the second Boer war broke out. It lasted three years and even though it was a short war the english could of lost money trying to take over Africa the women and children and the elderly may have a shortages of food, cloths, etc. this could of change the fashion trends during the duration of the war from using different materials to changing the common look completely. 55,00 British soldiers where killed during the 3 year war so a lot of black clotheing would of been quite popular because fails would have to morn their loved ones.
On September 1903 the labour party was let in to national politics which meant that they where seen a lot more in the media at the time. In the same year the women campaign called the suffrage was created. At this time women were seen over Britain as lower than a man and they didn't have the right to vote. They wore purple for loyalty and dignity, white for purity, and green for hope. they still wore the same fashion as other women did at the start of the century.
In 1904 the first popular American film was released. This would have shown different style which where in america at the time which would help progress the fashion during this time.
on the 4th December 1905 the liberals formed a government under Henry Campbell-Bannerman. these me who formed this party where wildly none for what hey have done through history which means that they where in the public eye people would of taken the fashion in to consideration because people see first not listen this means that all of these men would have worn expensive clothes and fabric at the time to make them look better then the lower class people who could not afford the same clothing. this shows that clothes makes a difference to how people see each other.
on the 10th February 1906 the Royal Navy launches the first 'Dreadnought' class battleship. HMS 'Dreadnought', the first of a new class of 'all big-gun' battleships, was launched at Portsmouth. It was by far the most powerful battleship afloat, and raised the stakes in the Anglo-German naval arms race. in navy ran areas where a lot of people would have worked for boat docks and being an engineer, most jobs would have something to do with the navy which would have influenced the fashion in that area.
on the 31st August 1907 the Britain and Russia agree an entente on 'spheres of influence' in Asia. This agreement shows that Britain would of had a partnership with Asia by helping each other out in a time of need. this partner ship could of introduced a cultural fashion to people who where very unknown to the Asia cultures.
on the 27th April 1908 the Olympic Games open at White City in London. this would of made most of the British citizens very proud of their country which would increase the chance of more people wearing the flags colours to support the games. also have so many different countries in one place people would see so many different fashion choices which could change the way they dress.
on the 29th April 1909 the Chancellor David Lloyd George introduces the 'People's Budget'. The introduction of the new 'Dreadnought' class battleship and the subsequent naval arms race with Germany prompted David Lloyd George, the chancellor of the exchequer, to introduce a tax on land, to increase income tax, and to propose a 'super-tax' on incomes over £5,000 per annum. He presented these increases as designed to fund social reforms. this would of introduce more cheap fabric and poorer people would struggle for trendy fashion for their time. This would of change the way people saw the poor because they would be more desperate then ever for money so they could never wear fashionable clothes.
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1900s mens fashion
Men had a three piece lounge suit accompanied by either a bowler or a cloth caps. Jackets were made narrow with small, tall lapels. Collars were starched, which is a technique to harden fabric, and upright with the end cover fabric pointing to the ground. Another type of collar was were the collar was turned down with a rounded edges and a modern knotted tie. They also wore hats such as a silk, derby and fedora hats. Older men where seen mostly with beards so it was common for younger men to shave or would have moustaches or stubble.
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1900s women’s fashion
At this time women used to wear S-dent corsets which made their hips thrust backwards and forced their chest forward. This look came from a pouter-pigeon shape that the women wanted to imitate. The clothing that was made included things such as frilly blouses which was embellished with decorations such as lace collars and broad ribbon ties. shirts that where fitted over the hips and fluted over the hem which was very fashionable at the time. women hair was normally in a middle parting which was wraped around padding and false hair to create wigs which is called ‘brim’ of hair around a hair line. The hairstyle was accompanied by bored brim hat with low crowns with added accessories.
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