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...
This one-room school was donated by a local family and moved to the Leo French City Park in the 1960s. The Olive Branch School was repaired and repurposed as a museum in memory of the more than 150 rural schools that once dotted the county. The interior was repainted, black boards rein...
In 1845, aged 70, and with his fortune lost, Vidocq travelled to London, in the hope of opening up a private detective agency. That project did not materialize due to funds shortage. In reduced circumstances, he wrote letters to the new Sûreté head appealing for a government pension. Wh...
In her spare time Karen motivates her “ANZACS” to yell at Governors General, or rather their driveways, in Australia and New Zealand. They are usually aided by a megaphone and demand the GG dissolve parliament and issue writs for a new election. This is because the government is corrupt ...
12)TheBank Holidays Actof 1871 introduced extra days off throughout the year. Banks and offices would close and people could take time off work. The first travel agent, a businessman namedThomas Cook, ran trips to the seaside, which were very popular amongst Victorian families — those who ...
Whether it is marriage, the family, religion, the treatment of women, racism, the government, the economy, or vocation, there is hardly an area of society that escapes Trollope’s scathing reproof. What’s worse is that Trollope fixes his critical eye mainly upon the genteel class, where ...
Children at school Who went to school ? At the beginning of the 19th century only rich children went to school. Poor children worked to help their families. Dame schools The woman who run the “Dame school” kept the children so their parents could work. The “dame” was only a child-...
So that impulse for a better life for all was delayed and frustrated until the second Labour government after WW2. To me Fred was very much an Atlee man. There was a line, possibly in the pilot, something like “I didn’t tramp halfway round Europe to come back and find the country ...
Lara Kriegel, examines how industrial design museums emerged in response to this educational deficit and analyzes the contestations between artisans, manufacturers, and government bureaucrats over the “education of taste” in the mid-Victorian era in, Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in...