170 Unionism: the gathering storm
A factor of small but growing importance at the end of Salisbury’s premierships, and during Balfour’s that followed, was offered by the Labour Representation Committee. It had been formed by trades un...
26 Marras 202314min
169. Anti-Immigrant? Or just anti-Semitic?
A major issue the Balfour government had to deal with was immigration. That became a thinly veiled pretext for anti-Semitism, since increased persecution of Jews inside the Russian empire sent huge nu...
19 Marras 202314min
168. Balfour's bad luck
Poor Balfour. He achieved a surprising amount considering how little time he had as head of government. What made it worse was that most of the measures he pushed through attracted at least as much cr...
12 Marras 202314min
167. Women's rights
The first thirty years of the twentieth century were a crucial period in the campaign to win the vote for women. But women’s rights concerned far more than just the vote. Across the nineteenth century...
5 Marras 202314min
166. Lessons of war unlearned
Eventually, Britain brought overwhelming force to bear on the Boer fighters. Combined with the mistreatment of their civilians, that at last forced them to surrender, though that meant abandoning the ...
29 Loka 202314min
165. The war turns dirty
Celebrations over victory in the Boer War, and the landslide general election win it led to for Salisbury, turned out to be premature. Indeed, towards the end of 1900, the war was entering its darkest...
22 Loka 202314min
164. Liberal stirrings against Tory dominance
We’ve been tracking years and years of Tory rule in Britain. It’s as though the once dominant Liberal Party had practically vanished from the scene. In fact, though, things were changing in its ranks,...
15 Loka 202314min
163. Boer War: the struggle to turn the tide
The tide turned for the British in South Africa when they sent enough troops out to overwhelm the Boers entirely – well over half a million over the whole length of the war or approaching half as many...
8 Loka 202314min
