| Description |
460 pages, 31 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22cm |
| Contents |
Going to war -- War hardship descends upon the poor -- Meeting the great emergency -- Relief delayed -- With Runciman at the Board of Trade -- Queen Mary's workrooms -- Poor outcast peace -- British toys -- Recruits ill-supplied -- Bearding Herbert Samuel -- War contracts and war loans -- Police supervision of soldiers' wives -- Attempt to revive the state regulation of vice -- Hoover and the Belgian Relief Commission -- Christmas 1914 -- A dark new year -- Closing down the National Relief Fund -- Patriotism in high places -- Peace efforts -- The munition workers -- Loss of the Lusitania -- War babies -- Asquith's coalition government -- The first air raid -- Women's war service -- "Eat less meat" -- Registration Sunday -- Unrest in the mines -- Keir Hardie |
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Pensions for broken men -- Lloyd George at Trade Union Congress -- The Rent Strike victory -- Edith Cavell -- Another war Christmas -- The turbulent Clyde -- Conscription -- One of the volunteers -- The execution of an East London boy -- Conscientious objectors -- Easter week, 1916 -- Conscription of married men -- Somewhere in France -- Old age pensioners plead for more -- Dope and T.N.T. -- Lloyd George fixes women's wages -- Little tragedies -- The amateur war strategists -- Bertrand Russell -- Sidney Webb -- A cry from the internment camps -- Votes for women -- "On the run" -- Australia refuses conscription -- The Ministry of Pensions -- Peace talk in the Cabinet -- Training the child -- The German peace note -- "Of this had been for life and not for death!" |
| Analysis |
00030 Great Britain 21030 suffrage movements women's 20020 ... 31030 Pankhurst, E. Sylvia 60030 biographies |
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Artists Great Britain Biography |
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Feminists Great Britain Biography |
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Pankhurst E. Sylvia Estelle Sylvia 1882-1960 |
| Notes |
Great Britain. Women's suffrage movements. Pankhurst, E. Sylvia. - Biographies (BNB/PRECIS) |
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Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 1932 |
| Bibliography |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia), 1882-1960.
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Artists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Feminists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Pankhurst, E. Sylvia, 1882-1960
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Suffragists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Women -- Suffrage -- Great Britain -- History.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- Great Britain.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Great Britain.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0091729114 (paperback) |
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