... had the ongoing argument that all women were physically too weak to deal with politics and too interested in fashion and what dress to wear. They also stated that a female couldn't be an MP because she gets easily excited ...

... led by Donkeys' especially as the majority of those dead were young men in their late teens or early mid twenties. There were long term and short term causes of the battle of the Somme. A short term cause was stalemate ...

... economy had changed by then. The country could no longer grow enough food to support its own people. Food had to be imported from places like America and therefore, like the First World War, they wanted to bomb the country ...

... against her as she was technically the property of her husband. She battled this until in 1873 the law was changed so that all women could see their children if they were divorced from their husband. It was because laws ...

... RAF to beat the German Luftwaffe and keep British soil independent. It has to be said though that it was also the heroics of the fighter pilots that got us this magnificent victory, and that we should give these brave ...

... was to reach the public via mass media. Information that would bring down the morale of the people was never published. Numerous photographs and stories weren't published during the Blitz. The Treachery Act that was set up in 1940 gave ...

... these measures was evacuation. Evacuation was introduced into Britain on the 1st September 1939. It consisted of the transporting of children from major cities to safe areas in the country side of Britain. These major cities were no longer considered ...

... convince more women to join the suffragette cause. The politics know what the women ant so give it to them or are you to scared to try new things? There actions are greatly respected in the world and they will ...

... mystery voice from behind me. I can't see the face of the man; I can only feel the strength of his fingers against my left wrist. The streets that surround me are noisy. I hear pattering feet in all directions, ...

... mystery voice from behind me. I can't see the face of the man; I can only feel the strength of his fingers against my left wrist. The streets that surround me are noisy. I hear pattering feet in all directions, ...

... I expect to find that the political process has increasingly disenchant young people and that this change in young people's voting is due to the fact they cannot distinguish between the political parties? (212 words) Context 2001 seen the lowest voting turnout ...

... a parallel to the article: India's "hidden apartheid". The way that people are restricted because of the caste system indicates a lack of freedom for these people. They cannot love the one they want and they have to devote their lives ...

... education. 3) The countryside air was much healthier than the air in the city. 4) Some evacuees became very attached to their billeting parents and almost gained a 'second family'. 5) There were far more open spaces for evacuees to play in. Readers of ...

... none of them valid. It is true that, had we a proportional voting system in this country, every vote in the country would be equally vital. Nevertheless, no MP can take their electorate for granted: no seat is "safe" in perpetuity. In ...

... get the vote to right to vote between 1900 and 1914. People of he early 20th century didn't want any changes, a lot of people were happy with the way things were. People said "women had never voted before, why should ...

... timidity on the subject of women being given the right to vote. Because of this she created the Women's Social and Political Union I Manchester. Emmiline Pankurst was one of the most influential figureheads while women were campaigning. She had an ...

... Girl's School. The photograph is reliable because it isn't staged and was censored by the government, if it was faked it might no have been banned. Source B shows soldiers surrounding body-bags. The source has a negative tone showing bad ...

... women to go out to work. In fact, the number of women who were in employment was only about five million in 1914, however at the end of the war this had gone up to just over six million. In ...

... Britain's economy was changing - there were more jobs being created in the service industries such as teaching, typing or nursing. Educationally they had advanced, with free compulsory state education up till the age of 11, and the acceptance for ...

... to keep everything running. A lot of women went to work in munitions factories, and as office clerks. There was also a need for labour in factories, however there was a reluctance to take women on in this kind of ...

... in attitudes. The only attitude which had not yet changed was giving women the vote. Even with the two women's suffrage movements in the public eye, they still failed to get the vote. Although, women's effort during the war was ...

... issue in the public eye, but had failed to get the vote. Thus there were many reasons why attitudes were changing but work of women in the First World War was probably the main one. When war broke out in 1914, ...

... issue in the public eye, but had failed to get the vote. Thus there were many reasons why attitudes were changing but work of women in the First World War was probably the main one. When war broke out in 1914, ...

... such jobs as munitions factory workers, bus conductors and any other jobs that men had left vacant after going of to war. During the war women worked in all kinds of jobs that men had done before the war and ...

... population by succeeding at both heavy work and skilled jobs such as engineering. Above all, it was women's contribution in the munitions industry that stood out in peoples mind. If women had not done all these things, the men at ...