The Tate Britain museum is the first to touch upon the subject of physical attacks on art in Britain within the period from the 16th century to the present day. The exhibition is dedicated to the issue of iconoclasm which mainly describes religiously‚ politically or aestheticly motiveted destruction of different art pieces such as icons‚ symbols or monuments. This exhibition primarily aims to investigate and point out the particular movements and causes of the assaults on art through objects‚ paintings
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Does it matter if democracy is still expanding in Great Britain or anywhere else in the world? Democracy‚ a form of government by the people‚ expanded somewhat dramatically in Great Britain between 1830 and 1914. Examples of democratic expansion in Great Britain include the increase of male suffrage and the regulation of working conditions. This expansion wasn’t dramatic because women still couldn’t vote during that time period. The increase of male suffrage helped the expansion of democracy
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Vindication of the Rights of Woman‚ by Mary Wollstonecraft in Britain. Militant political action among women began in Britain in 1903 with the formation of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) for the right to vote‚ under the leadership of Emmeline Pankhurst. Women of all ages and classes demonstrated on a massive scale; the demonstrators were jailed‚ locked out of their meeting places‚ and thrown down the steps of Parliament. National divisiveness ended in a truce at the outbreak of World War I
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19th and 20th century many advances were being taken in the equal rights movement for women. Many people philosophised why the oppression of women was so apparent‚ among these people were activists and writers like The Suffragettes‚ especially Emmeline Pankhurst in the late 1890’s‚ who focussed on the legal side of the movement. Then de Beauvoir and Betty Friedman in the 1950-60‚ who focussed on the expectation of women in society and their place in society. Both Friedman and de Beauvoir came to the
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Evadne Price wrote the book "Not So Quiet" in 1930 under the pseudonym Helen Zenna Smith. Price was an established author and playwright by the time she wrote "Not So Quiet‚" best known for her serialized romance novels. She also wrote children’s books and articles for women’s magazine. But "Not So Quiet" was a very different kind of piece‚ partly because of its far more serious nature‚ partly because it was somewhat autobiographical. She was initially approached by a British publisher to write a
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political activity largely on hold for the duration of the war‚ and the more militant WSPU did likewise after speaking with the government‚ although in 1915 they did demonstrate publicly‚ demanding that women be given a ‘right to serve’. Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst‚ perhaps the most famous Suffragettes‚ turned to recruiting soldiers for the war effort‚ actions echoed across Europe. Women on the front line few women served in the front lines fighting‚ but there were exceptions: Flora Sands was
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women’s textile workers from Northern England present a 37‚000 signatory petition to Parliament demanding votes for women. 1903 The Women’s Social and Political Union is founded in Manchester by Emmeline Pankhurst‚ her daughters Christabel and Sylvia‚ and Annie Kearney. 1905 Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kearney serve a prison sentence rather than pay a fine after being found guilty of disrupting an election rally. Their prison sentence brought the campaign for votes for women a great deal
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British Depth Study 1890-1918 Liberal Reforms What were the living and social conditions like in the 1890s? Living conditions: * Towns became overcrowded. * People lived in slums‚ often whole families lived in one room. * No internal water supplies. * Shared outside toilets. * Limited electricity‚ wealthy families were starting to get it. * Larger families but higher infant mortality. * Very limited birth control‚ moral distaste. * Church taught contraception
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Suffragettes like Emmeline Pankhurst‚ Millicent Fawcett and Emily Davison fought for the rights that exist for women in the UK today. Primarily our right to vote. Our right to democracy. But this right is slowly been salami sliced away by the EU‚ they’re slicing away at everything these great women fought for. We cannot control our own laws‚ our own boarders and are subservient to an unelectable‚ unaccountable‚ male dominated European Commission. The Remain campaign is getting desperate‚ they keep
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Do you agree with the view that the First World War hindered‚ rather than helped‚ the cause of female suffrage? In the sources presented there are conflicting views as to whether the First World War helped or hindered the cause of female suffrage. There were many people who argued that because women had worked so relentlessly during the war‚ it would be impossible to deny them the vote‚ especially due to the fact that working class men got the vote that were on the frontlines. Source 5‚ a letter
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