79 relations: Amalgamated Engineering Union, American Federation of Labor, Andrew Carnegie, Austria, Barking, Battersea, Battersea (UK Parliament constituency), Ben Tillett, Bloody Sunday (1887), Carlton Club, Clapham Common, Conspiracy (criminal), Council house, Cricket, David Holmes (trade unionist), Demographics of Africa, Edward Cowey, Edward VII, English Poor Laws, George V, Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour, H. H. Asquith, Harry Furniss, Havelock Wilson, Henry Broadhurst, Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, History of London, James Mawdsley (trade unionist), John Stuart Mill, Keir Hardie, Liberal Party (UK), Life annuity, London, London County Council, London dock strike of 1889, Lord's, National school (England and Wales), Niger, Night school, Nottingham West (UK Parliament constituency), Octavius Vaughan Morgan, Old Bailey, Paris Commune, Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress, President of the Board of Trade, President of the Local Government Board, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Progressivism, Punch (magazine), ..., Red flag (politics), River Thames, Robert Owen, Second Boer War, Sedition, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet, Social Democratic Federation, St. Mary's Cemetery, Wandsworth, Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton, Temperance movement, The Oval, The Right Honourable, Thomas Paine, Tom Mann, Trade union, Trades Union Congress, Trafalgar Square, United Africa Company, United Kingdom general election, 1885, United Kingdom general election, 1892, United Kingdom general election, 1918, University of London, Vauxhall, Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford, Will Crooks, William Cobbett, Woolwich Ferry, World War I. Expand index (29 more) »
Amalgamated Engineering Union
The Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) was a major British trade union.
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American Federation of Labor
The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor union.
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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie (but commonly or;MacKay, p. 29. November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist.
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Austria
Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.
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Barking
Barking is a town in East London, England, in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and the county of Essex.
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Battersea
Battersea is a district of south west London, England, within the London Borough of Wandsworth.
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Battersea (UK Parliament constituency)
Battersea is a constituency in the London Borough of Wandsworth represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Marsha De Cordova of the Labour Party.
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Ben Tillett
Benjamin Tillett (11 September 1860 – 27 January 1943) was a British socialist, trade union leader and politician.
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Bloody Sunday (1887)
Bloody Sunday took place in London on 13 November 1887, when a march against unemployment and coercion in Ireland, as well as demanding the release of MP William O'Brien, was attacked by the Metropolitan Police and the British Army.
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Carlton Club
The Carlton Club is a gentlemen's club in London which describes itself as the "oldest, and most important of all Conservative clubs in Britain." Membership of the club is by nomination and election only.
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Clapham Common
Clapham Common is a large triangular urban park in Clapham, south London.
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Conspiracy (criminal)
In criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime at some time in the future.
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Council house
A council house is a form of public or social housing built by local municipalities in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).
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David Holmes (trade unionist)
David Holmes (16 November 1843 – 14 January 1906) was a British trade unionist.
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Demographics of Africa
The population of Africa has grown rapidly over the past century, and consequently shows a large youth bulge, further reinforced by a low life expectancy of below 50 years in some African countries.
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Edward Cowey
Edward Cowey (9 April 1839 – 16 December 1903), often known as Ned Cowey, was a British trade unionist.
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Edward VII
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
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English Poor Laws
The English Poor Laws were a system of poor relief which existed in England and Wales that developed out of late-medieval and Tudor-era laws being codified in 1587–98.
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George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
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Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour
Gerald William Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour, PC (9 April 1853 – 14 January 1945), known as Gerald Balfour or Rt Hon G. W. Balfour until 1930, was a senior British Conservative politician who became a peer on the death of his brother, former prime minister Arthur Balfour, in 1930.
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H. H. Asquith
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928), generally known as H. H. Asquith, was a British statesman of the Liberal Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.
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Harry Furniss
Harry Furniss (March 26, 1854 - January 14, 1925) was an artist and illustrator, born in Wexford, Ireland.
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Havelock Wilson
Joseph Havelock Wilson (16 August 1859 – 16 April 1929) was a trade union leader, Liberal Party politician, and campaigner for the rights of merchant seamen.
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Henry Broadhurst
Henry Broadhurst (13 April 1840 – 11 October 1911) was a leading early British trade unionist and a Lib-Lab politician who sat in the House of Commons for various Midlands constituencies between 1880 and 1906.
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Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (7 September 183622 April 1908) was a British statesman of the Liberal Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908.
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Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, (6 November 1870 – 5 February 1963) was a British Liberal politician who was the party leader from 1931 to 1935.
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History of London
The history of London, the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, extends over 2000 years.
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James Mawdsley (trade unionist)
James Mawdsley (9 January 1848 – 4 February 1902) was an English trade unionist.
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill, also known as J.S. Mill, (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant.
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Keir Hardie
James Keir Hardie (15 August 185626 September 1915) was a Scottish socialist, politician, and trade unionist.
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Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major parties in the United Kingdom – with the opposing Conservative Party – in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Life annuity
A life annuity is an annuity, or series of payments at fixed intervals, paid while the purchaser (or annuitant) is alive.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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London County Council
London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected.
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London dock strike of 1889
The London Dock strike was an industrial dispute involving dock workers in the Port of London.
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Lord's
Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known simply as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London.
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National school (England and Wales)
A National school was a school founded in 19th-century England and Wales by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education.
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Niger
Niger, also called the Niger officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa named after the Niger River.
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Night school
A night school is an adult learning school that holds classes in the evening or at night to accommodate people who work during the day.
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Nottingham West (UK Parliament constituency)
Nottingham West was a borough constituency in the city of Nottingham.
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Octavius Vaughan Morgan
Octavius Vaughan Morgan (1837 – 26 February 1896) was a Welsh-born Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892.
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Old Bailey
The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey from the street on which it stands, is a court in London and one of a number of buildings housing the Crown Court.
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Paris Commune
The Paris Commune (La Commune de Paris) was a radical socialist and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871.
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Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress
The Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress was the leading body of the British trade union movement from 1871 until 1921.
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President of the Board of Trade
The President of the Board of Trade is head of the Board of Trade.
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President of the Local Government Board
The President of the Local Government Board was a ministerial post, frequently a Cabinet position, in the United Kingdom, established in 1871.
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Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.
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Progressivism
Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.
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Punch (magazine)
Punch; or, The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells.
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Red flag (politics)
In politics, a red flag is predominantly a symbol of socialism, communism, Marxism, and left-wing politics; it has been associated with left-wing politics since the French Revolution (1789–99).
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River Thames
The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.
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Robert Owen
Robert Owen (14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858) was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropic social reformer, and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.
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Second Boer War
The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.
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Sedition
Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward insurrection against the established order.
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Sing a Song of Sixpence
"Sing a Song of Sixpence" is a well-known English nursery rhyme, perhaps originating in the 18th century.
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Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet
Sir John Williams Benn, 1st Baronet, DL (13 November 1850 – 10 April 1922) was a British politician, particularly associated with London politics, and the grandfather of former MP and Cabinet Minister, Tony Benn.
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Social Democratic Federation
The Social Democratic Federation (SDF) was established as Britain's first organised socialist political party by H. M. Hyndman, and had its first meeting on 7 June 1881.
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St. Mary's Cemetery, Wandsworth
St Mary's Cemetery is a cemetery opened in 1860 in Wandsworth, London.
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Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton
Sydney Charles Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton, (25 October 1853 – 15 October 1934) was a radical British Liberal politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Temperance movement
The temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
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The Oval
The Oval, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth, South London.
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The Right Honourable
The Right Honourable (The Rt Hon. or Rt Hon.) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and to certain collective bodies in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, India, some other Commonwealth realms, the Anglophone Caribbean, Mauritius, and occasionally elsewhere.
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In the old calendar, the new year began on March 25, not January 1. Paine's birth date, therefore, would have been before New Year, 1737. In the new style, his birth date advances by eleven days and his year increases by one to February 9, 1737. The O.S. link gives more detail if needed. – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary.
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Tom Mann
Thomas Mann (15 April 1856 – 13 March 1941) was a noted British trade unionist.
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Trade union
A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.
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Trades Union Congress
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions in England and Wales, representing the majority of trade unions.
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Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar Square is a public square in the City of Westminster, Central London, built around the area formerly known as Charing Cross.
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United Africa Company
The United Africa Company (UAC) was a British company which principally traded in West Africa during the 20th century.
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United Kingdom general election, 1885
The 1885 United Kingdom general election was held from 24 November to 18 December 1885.
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United Kingdom general election, 1892
The 1892 United Kingdom general election was held from 4 July to 26 July 1892.
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United Kingdom general election, 1918
The 1918 United Kingdom general election was called immediately after the Armistice with Germany which ended the First World War, and was held on Saturday 14 December 1918.
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University of London
The University of London (abbreviated as Lond. or more rarely Londin. in post-nominals) is a collegiate and a federal research university located in London, England.
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Vauxhall
Vauxhall is a mixed commercial and residential district of southwest London in the London Borough of Lambeth.
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Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford
Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford, (19 November 1870 – 14 November 1949) was a prominent Liberal and later National Liberal politician in the United Kingdom between the 1900s and 1930s.
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Will Crooks
William Crooks (6 April 1852 – 5 June 1921) was a noted trade unionist and politician from Poplar, London, and a member of the Fabian Society.
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William Cobbett
William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, farmer, journalist and member of parliament, who was born in Farnham, Surrey.
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Woolwich Ferry
The Woolwich Ferry is a free vehicle ferry service across the River Thames in East London, connecting Woolwich to the south with North Woolwich to the north.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burns