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| Crimean war; Congress of Berlin decided what to do with the Ottoman Empire; British did not want Russia to gain too much control in the East |
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| economist, critic of imperialism; said colonies were attractive to capitalist because of cheap labor and vast goods (in Past Speaks); motivated to condemn the Boer War |
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| wanted to tie all of Africa together with cape to Cairo railroad; social Darwinist; implications of career (Rhodes scholarships); great imperialist of Africa |
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| wife of Sidney, Fabian society, founded London School of Economics with her husband |
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| Liberal; believed industrial workers would destroy party; formed Adullamites and broke the Liberal party from having a majority, albino; felt that working class people were boisterous, drunken and a bad example of what working people are like when they have the vote (based on time in Australia) |
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| Suffragette; appealed to upper class women; apart of family of Suffragettes; Cat and Mouse Act, arrested, starve themselves, be released, repeat |
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| in Khartoum, was sent to Sudan by Gladstone to evacuate British citizens in Khartoum because the Mahdi was bringing a jihad to Africa; Gordon stayed and fought for 69 days; Queen Victoria orders Gladstone to save Gordon (previously had a great war reputation); Gladstone sends force from Egypt to Sudan sending more forces to Egypt (leads to control of Egypt by Britain); dies; Gladstone goes from being a Little Englander to an imperialist prime minister |
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| two volumes by an English gentleman; chronicles his sexual deviancy; saw domestic servants as commodities; married rich; shows the hypocrisy of Victorian virtue and that the Victorians were not actually as prude as they seemed, especially the men |
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| unions had to pay company damages for striking; made it difficult for unions to be able to strike because they would constantly have to pay for damages, which would bankrupt them |
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| Quaker; anti-corn law league; argued for reform and criticized status quo; became a political team with Gladstone; wanted to expand vote |
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| Middle class think tank; one of founders were Sidney and Beatrice Webb and George Bernard Shaw; exorcised Marxism from British socialism; did not was to be a political party but to influence politics; wanted to permeate liberal party |
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| Liberal member of Parliament (served as Prime Minister); in favor of corn laws in 1840s; |
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| mentioned in Old Testament where David sought refuge; term Adullamites which refers to political outsiders plotting a comeback; given to faction of Liberal party lead by Robert Lowe opposing the Reform Act of 1867 |
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| founded Independent Labour Party; was a working man who was elected to Parliament but would not wear top hat and tails (as was the custom); first Independent Labour member of Parliament |
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| utilitarian; father worked for Jeremey Bentham (utilitarian economics); wrote for women to get the right to vote (On Women) |
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| Elementary education act of 1870 written by W. E. Forster; laid foundation for British elementary education; put churches (and state) in control which non-conformists did not like; effort of government to help educate the working classes now that they had the right to vote; had to be in school until 12 years of age |
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| from Dublin; insistent that the Northern 6 counties of Ireland (Ulster) would never be separated from the United Kingdom; pledged to fight against Parliament (with militia); invites Bonar Law to come to Ireland and take the salute from his militia |
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| attempted to undermine the 3 F campaign in Ireland and was ostracized from the community; creation of the term boycott |
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| 1871; abolished communion tests that were necessary to go to university in England; passed by Gladstone to obtain support from non-conformists (or those who were not Anglican and therefore could not go to or graduate from university) |
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| founding member of the Bloomsbury group; A Room of One’s Own |
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| author of the Elementary Education Act of 1870 |
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| edited by Robert Blatchford who was attributed with converting many English to socialism; used example of postal and telegraph services run by government to show how practical socialism already works in England; part of this argument to reach ideal socialism |
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| part of Irish issue, fair rent, free sale, fixity of tenure (tenants could not be evicted if they paid rent), Cpt. Boycott tried to undermine the 3 F campaign and was ostracized from the community, thus the word “boycott” |
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| mayor of Birmingham; established National Education League to push church of England out of education; became a network of nonconformists upset over Church still having a role in education; left the Liberal party over Ireland (broke from Gladstone because he was a Unionist and did not believe in Irish Home Rule); |
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| had an influential marriage to an American heiress (age when British aristocracy was not doing as well so they married American money); Conservative party member who helped come up with Tory Democracy where the tories aligned themselves with needs of ordinary people; became head of National Union of Conservatives but resigned to prevent a split only to re-elected; became Chancellor of the Exchequer; resigned again but was not re-appointed; adored by son Winston who wrote his first autobiography; Lord Salisbury was set out to destroy him |
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| great Irish leader; had an illicit relationship with Kitty O’Shay who was married; her husband went public with their affair (and that they lived together and had 3 children); ruined Parnell’s political career (was on the verge of achieving Home Rule for Ireland); showed the hypocrisy of Victorian England and how scandal could have such an impact on a politician’s life because “virtue” and “morality” was seemingly so important to the Victorians |
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| was in the house of Commons then when his father died he inherited his title and place in House of Lords (pretty much ended his political career); example of how this happened to many promising young politicians; was leader of the Conservatives after Disraeli’s death |
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| considered for poet laureate after Tennyson died but was thought to be too much of a sensualist; showed the prude nature of Victorian society and high moral character |
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| founded Social Democratic Federation which was the beginnings of trying to organize the idea of socialism |
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| desire for the Fabian society to permeate the Liberal party; wanted not to have political power but to fill the Liberal party with the socialist ideas the Fabians believed in |
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| Lawrence of Arabia; British officer who was a liaison during Arab Revolt from 1916-1918; involved in the capture of Damascus |
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| succeeded Gladstone as leader of the Liberal Party; had soldiers prepare to march against Carson in Dublin but the soldiers mutiny (mutiny at the Curragh) because they do not want to fight Carson |
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| Dutch Africans living in South Africa; fought two wars against the British in late 19th century; also revolted in 1914 at beginning of war because they did not want to side with British |
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| secular trinity: truth, love and beauty; wrote Principia Ethica; was a professor at Cambridge in 1899 at Trinity College when the men that would form Bloomsbury were at school and asking the question “what is good?” |
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| Secretary of Labour Representation Committee; party leader for Labour party (LRC became Labour party) |
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| Labour Representation Committee |
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| meant to coordinate attempts to support members of parliament sponsored by trade unions and represent working class; Ramsay MacDonald became secretary because of a lack of a leader; won 29 seats in 1906 election, renamed themselves the Labour Party and wrote a manifesto proclaiming themselves to be socialist |
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