This document outlines key political and social reforms that occurred in Britain between 1890-1918. It discusses the formation of the Labour Party in 1900 and liberal reforms passing acts like free school meals, old age pensions, and national insurance. It also covers the growing women's suffrage movement and actions taken by suffragettes to gain voting rights for women, as well as the impact of World War 1 on British society through conscription, women entering the workforce, and propaganda efforts.

1. How British
Society
Changed
1890-1918

2. Liberal
Reforms
Revision
Timeline

3. 1889-1902
Boer War, problem
of national efficiency
highlighted

4. 1889
Charles Booth publishes
his findings on poverty
in London

5. 1900
The Labour Party
formed

6. 1901
Seebohm Rowntree publishes
his book on poverty
in York

7. 1906
General Election – Liberals win,
Herbert Asquith becomes PM
>Free School Meals Act passed

8. 1907
School Medical
Services set up

9. 1908
David Lloyd George becomes
Chancellor of Exchequer
>Old Age Pensions Act passed
>Children’s Act passed

10. 1909
Labour Exchange Programmes set
up to help unemployed. Lloyd
George’s ‘People’s Budget’
introduced (taxes rich to pay for
welfare reforms)
>Parliament Act passed

11. 1911
National Insurance Act passed:
2 parts –
>Sick Pay and
>Unemployment Benefit

12. 1912
Introduction of
school clinics

13. Votes for
Women
Revision
Timeline

14. 1897
NUWSS formed
(Suffragists),
leader Millicent Fawcett

15. 1901
Queen Victoria dies –
marks new beginning
for women

16. 1903
WSPU (The Women's
Social and Political
Union) formed
(Suffragettes), leader
Emmeline Pankhurst

17. 1906
General Election,
Liberals win,
Asquith becomes PM

18. 1908
Women’s Bill dropped from
Parliament – ran out of time.
Direct action begins and
Suffragette actions become
more militant (smashing
windows, chaining to Downing
Street, arrests)

19. 1911
Asquith drops Conciliation Bill
giving women the vote, even
though Parliament passes it

20. 1912
Suffragette violence increases
(arson, bombing churches,
destroying valuable paintings,
prison, hunger strikes)

21. 1913
Cat and Mouse Act
Death of Emily Davison
(June 1913), she becomes a
martyr for the cause

22. 1914
Suffragists membership almost
100,000, over 500 branches –
more successful.
WW1 starts, Suffragettes call
off all militant action.
Suffragettes start Order of the
White Feather campaign.

23. 1915
Munitions crisis (July 1915),
women recruited to work in
munitions factories.
Many industries employ women
to help war effort (1.6 million
extra women workers help
in war)

24. 1916
David Lloyd George
becomes PM,
replaces Asquith

25. 1918
Representation of the People
Act becomes law, women over
age of 30 who owned property
were given vote (women vote for
1st time in December 1918 general
election). Armistice signed
(11/11/1918) WW1 ends.

26. 1928
Full voting rights
granted
to all women

27. WW1 Home
Front
Revision
Timeline

28. 1914
WW1 starts (2nd August 1914)
>Massive recruitment/propaganda campaign
launched by Kitchener, Minister of War
>500,000 volunteers by September 1914
>Suffragettes start Order of the White Feather
campaign
>Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) introduced
(8th August 1914), censorship starts
>Stalemate and trench warfare begins,
volunteers slow down by Christmas

29. 1915
Munitions crisis (July 1915), women
recruited to work in munitions factories
>Coalition government formed to help
with war effort
>Lloyd George becomes Minister
of Munitions

30. 1916
Conscription introduced for all
single men aged 18-40 (January 1916)
>Conscription introduced for
all married men aged 18-40 (May 1916)
>Battle of Somme disaster,
government & generals heavily
criticised (July – November)
>David Lloyd George becomes PM,
replaces Asquith (December 1916)
>Propaganda film, For the Empire,
audiences reach 9 million by end of 1916

31. 1917
Siegfried Sassoon’s war poems
published criticising war
leadership
>German U-boats sink British
merchant ships carrying food
supplies
>Voluntary food rationing