Boer War

I. Transvaal and the Orange Free State

II. Cecil Rhodes

III. Jameson Raid, 1896

IV. Kruger Telegram

Death of Victoria

I. End of an era? Start of an Era?

II. Edward VII (Bertie)

III. Golden Age or Accumulating Crisis?

IV. Economic Boom

V. Edwardian Poverty

Liberal Victory 1906

I. Balfour’s mistakes

A. Education Act, 1902

B. Tariff Reform

II. Labour Party

A. Independent Labour Party (ILP)

B. Labour Representation Committee (LRC)

C. Progressives

Constitutional Crisis

I. Lloyd George’s “People’s Budget”

A. super-tax

B. income tax

C. attack on alcohol trade

D. preparations for land-tax

II. Veto in the Lords

III. Asquith’s condemnation of the Lords

IV. “The Peers against the People”

V. Elections of 1910

Suffrage Crisis

I. John Stuart Mill’s 1867 efforts

II. National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies

A. Millicent Garrett Fawcett

B. Suffragists

III. Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU)

A. Emmeline, Christabel, Sylvia Pankhurst

B. Suffragettes

C. “Deeds not Words”

D. Hunger Strikes

IV. Limited Franchise Reform vote, 1910

V. Emily Davison

VI. 1918 Representation of the People Act

VII. 1928 Equal Voting Rights

The End of Isolation

I. 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance

II. 1904 Anglo-French Entente Cordiale

III. 1907 Anglo-Russian Rapprochement

The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism

I. German Naval Buildup

I. Weltpolitik

II. Two Power Standard

III. HMS Dreadnought and the Arms Race

IV. First Moroccan Crisis, 1905

V. Algeciras Conference, 1906