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1 Britain since the Romans 6 : The Age of Extremes

2 Oscar Wilde

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4 1906 : first free school meals 1908 : first old age pensions (5 shillings a week) 1909 : first Labour Exchanges 1911 : National health insurance act

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6 1914 Outbreak of the First World War 1916 Introduction of Conscription

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8 A British cemetery in France

9 1924 : First Labour government 1926 : General strike 1929 : Second Labour government 1931: « National Government » 1936: Cable Street

10 1926 General Strike : the government newspaper

11 1926 General Strike : union newspaper

12 Ramsay Macdonald : the first Prime Minister from the Labour Party

13 Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader

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

18 The Blitz

19 The effects of the Blitz in Manchester

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21 Dresden

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23 The Windrush, carrying Caribbean immigrants to England

24 Aneuran Bevan, who founded the National Health Service in 1948

25 High Rise flats built in the 1960s

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27 A Republican mural in Northern Ireland

28 A unionist paramilitary mural in Northern Ireland

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31 1977 The Sex Pistols

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33 1970 : Founding of the Gay Liberation Front in Britain, based on its American counterpart

34 1979-1997 Conservative government (Margaret Thatcher 1979- 1990; John Major 1990- 1997)

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37 1972 : the Pentonville five

38 March 1984 to March 1985: The Great Miners Strike

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42 1990 : the Poll Tax and the Poll Tax Revolt

43 1993 : the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence led to major reforms.

44 1997 : after eighteen years of Conservative government, Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister with his « New Labour » party

45 1999: important reform of the House of Lords

46 1997 : Referendums decide on more autonomy for Wales and Scotland

47 2004 Demonstration against the war in Iraq

48 2010 : A second inquiry into Bloody Sunday


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