At the beginning of this period political parties were not as organised as they are today, instead there were looser groups of

A brilliant military commander during the

The term used to describe a government system that looks after the economic and social well-being of its people.  Measures such as unemployment insurance or healthcare are paid for by taxes. This mean [..]

A group of

At the beginning of this period political parties were not as organised as they are today, instead there were looser groups of

Volunteers who are given the powers of policemen for a short period of time. They could be used at times when the government felt extra policemen were needed, such as before big political

Campaigners to give women the right to vote. The ‘Suffragettes’ became the name for those who were happy to use violence to achieve the vote, such as Emmeline Pankhurst’s

A way of casting your vote in secret. This was to prevent people, such as landlords or bosses, from pressurising people to vote for a certain

These were towns or areas that had once been important, but no longer had many people living there. Because they used to be important they often had

the violent overthrow of a governmental system, as in the