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

A British cemetery in France

1924 : First Labour government

1926 : General strike

1929 : Second Labour government

1931: « National Government »

1936: Cable Street

1926 General Strike : the government newspaper

1926 General Strike : union newspaper

Ramsay Macdonald : the first Prime Minister from the Labour Party

Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader

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

The Blitz

The effects of the Blitz in Manchester

Dresden

The Windrush, carrying Caribbean immigrants to England

Aneuran Bevan, who founded the National Health Service in 1948

High Rise flats built in the 1960s

A Republican mural in Northern Ireland

A unionist paramilitary mural in Northern Ireland

1977 The Sex Pistols

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

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

1972 : the Pentonville five

March 1984 to March 1985:

The Great Miners’ Strike

1990 : the Poll Tax and the Poll Tax Revolt

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

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

1999: important reform of the House of Lords

1997 : Referendums decide on more autonomy for Wales and Scotland

2004 Demonstration against the war in Iraq

2010 : A second inquiry into Bloody Sunday