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Unemployment was the dominant issue of British society during the interwar years. [1] Unemployment levels rarely dipped below 1,000,000 and reached a peak of more than 3,000,000 in 1933, a figure which represented more than 20% of the working population. The unemployment rate was even higher in areas including South Wales and Liverpool. [1]
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from AD 1900 until AD 1929. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related History of the British Isles.
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
The Evolution of British Social Policy and the Welfare State, c. 1800–1993 (Keele University Press. 1995). online; Levine-Clark, Marjorie. Unemployment, Welfare, and Masculine Citizenship: So Much Honest Poverty in Britain, 1870–1930 (Springer, 2015). Lowe, Rodney. "The Second World War, consensus, and the foundation of the welfare state."
In another study on poverty, Wilfred Beckerman estimated that 9.9% of the British population lived below a standardised poverty line in 1973, compared with 6.1% of the population of Belgium. [ 15 ] Low pay was also a major cause of poverty, [ 16 ] [ 17 ] with a report by the TUC in 1968 finding that about 5 million females and about 2.5 million ...
29 April – People's Budget introduced in the British Parliament by David Lloyd George. [7] 2 May – John Moore-Brabazon becomes the first resident British citizen to make a recognised powered heavier-than-air flight in the UK, flying from The Aero Club's ground at Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey in his Voisin biplane Bird of Passage. [8]
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14 February – Second Boer War: 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State in South Africa. Plaque recording the location of the formation of the Labour Party. 27 February Second Boer War: British military leaders in South Africa receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé.