The Edwardian Era and the First World War, 1902-1919

Key Issues

Titles

Chapters

• Cardiff as a leading port and trading centre
• changing attitudes to war
• church and chapel: the 1904 religious revival
• conscientious objectors
• Conservative attitudes to social and political reform
• D.O.R.A. and government propaganda
• Elections, 1910
• employers and the major enterprises: D. A. Thomas and the Cambrian Combine
• extending educational opportunities: the 1902 Education Act
• government control of agriculture, trade and industry
• Government responses to poverty caused by the depression
• impact of war on civilian life
• industrial unrest in Tonypandy and Llanelli and its aftermath, socialism and syndicalism: The Miners' Next Step
• Labour Exchanges 1909
• Lloyd George and 'The People's Budget', 1909
• Lloyd George as Prime Minister
• Medical Inspection, 1907
• National Insurance Act, 1911, part 1, Health
• National Insurance Act, 1911, part 2, unemployment
• New government powers: the Defence of the Realm Act, 1914, conscription, rationing, use of propaganda, and their impact on civilian life
• old age pensions 1909
• Old Age Pensions, 1908
• Parliament Act, 1911
• Payment for MPs
• Population movement and its impact on the Welsh language and culture
• poverty in 1906
• Reasons for the Liberal reforms
• Recruiting
• Recruitment and conscription
• role and influence of Lloyd George
• School Meals Act, 1906
• Sir O. M. Edwards
• the 1909 Budget and the Constitutional Crisis
• the 1918 Representation of the People Act
• The arguments for and against female suffrage, the WSPU and the NUWSS - their leaders, activities and the reactions of the authorities
• The beginning of the Welfare State
• The Childrens' Charter
• the climax of the coal industry
• the contribution of leading Suffragettes: Emily Davison
• the contribution of leading Suffragettes: the Pankhursts
• the decline of religious observance
• the development of sport, pastimes and popular entertainments
• The emergence of the Labour Party, 1906-1918
• the foundation of the W.S.P.U.
• the impact of the Penrhyn Lockout
• the implications of the 1906 Liberal victory
• the implications of the rise of the Labour
• The Liberal governments of 1906-14 and social reforms benefiting children
• The Liberal governments of 1906-14 and social reforms benefiting the aged
• The Liberal governments of 1906-14 and social reforms benefiting the sick
• The Liberal governments of 1906-14 and social reforms benefiting the unemployed
• The Liberal governments of 1906-14 and social reforms benefiting widows
• The mood of the British people at the end of the war and the different attitudes about what should happen to Germany
• the National Insurance Act 1911
• The nature and extent of poverty in 1902
• the nature and impact of the Liberal social reforms
• the Parliament Act 1911, and the payment of MPs
• the S.W.M.F.
• The scale and changing fortunes of Welsh heavy industry
• The social impact of the depression of the 1920s and 1930s in different areas of Britain
• the Suffragist movement
• The vote for women, 1918
• the war poets: Hedd Wyn
• the war poets: Wilfred Owen
• Wales and England at the end of the war, celebration and reflection
• what people thought they were fighting for
• women in employment
• Women in employment during the First World War
• workers and trade unions