During the Belle Époque period (1880-1914), telephone service in Paris expanded significantly. The French government recognized the telephone’s strategic importance and nationalized the service in 1889, pla
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built in 1896-7 and named after Sir William Ogilvy Dalgliesh, president of the hospital and benefactor of the University’s Medical School. On the
… Unaided by government money, a monument to imperial governance far superior to that of “ancient days” by virtue of its moral devotion to creating “civilized” colonies rather than gutting them of resources, and developed under the paternal direction of Prince Albert, the Great Exhibition ...
which is widely seen as the foundation of the 20th-centurywelfare state. The new Liberal government embarked upon a program of social legislation that involvedfree schoolmeals (1905), a school medical service (1907), and the Children’s Act (1908). TheOld Age Pensions Act (1908) granted pen...
United Kingdom - Early and mid-Victorian Britain: The implementation of the liberal, regulative state emerging after the Napoleonic Wars involved a number of new departures. The first of these concerned the new machinery of government, which, instead of
Having signed the Kyoto agreement under a previous Liberal government, Canada did little to stop its emissions rising. They are now almost 35% above the Kyoto target. And although Mr. Baird likes to describe his plan as tough, it will not bring Canada into line with Kyoto. 44.___. The...