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The handover ceremony in 1997 marked for many, including Charles, Prince of Wales, who was in attendance, "the end of Empire".
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Led to the Black Friday, the most violent day in the fight for women.
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The Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act, commonly referred to as the Cat and Mouse Act, was an Act of Parliament passed in Britain under H. H. Asquith's Liberal government in 1913. Some members of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU, commonly referred to as suffragettes) had been imprisoned for acts of vandalism in support of women's suffrage.
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The Empire is fighting alongside the Triple-Entente.
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it was 30 years old before then
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Women were granted suffrage equal to men in 1928 under the Representation of the people (Franchise Act). The age lowered to 21.
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introducing circonscription for women engaged in army
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The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term was first used by the British press and is the German word for 'lightning'.
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Churchill said that Britain was the center of 3 circles: they contains the United States of america, Europe and the Commonwealth.
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Mark beginning of Commonwealth immigration to Britain.
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give universal and free accross to health care , first free system in Europe
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In 1955, the Colonial Office produced a draft White Paper on immigration restrictions and an inter-departmental committee prepared a report on the associated economic and social problems of Commonwealth immigration. The Colonial Secretary, Alan Lennox-Boyd, argued that draft proposals aimed at West Indian immigration were racially discriminatory, as the large majority of immigrants were Irish.
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High optimism, high nationalism end in 1957 because of this period.
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Created several categories and the commonwealth citizens were granted the same rights as Nationals in terms of right of enter and right to vote.
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The Notting Hill race riots were a series of racially motivated riots that took place in Notting Hill, England.
"White Defence League", the probleme now were that there were too many coloured people.
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put an officially end to the Open door policy initiated by the British National Act of 1958
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The Peerage Act 1963 is the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that permitted women peeresses and all Scottish hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, and which allows newly inherited hereditary peerages to be disclaimed.
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Voted by labour government, the Race Relations Act 1965 was the first legislation in the United Kingdom to address racial discrimination.
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equal pay act
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The English currency is less the victim of a “financial conspiracy” than of the consequences of the economic policy of “stop-and-go” conducted since 1945.
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2 years later, in 1975they will do a referendum about leaving or emain in the EU.
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The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which protected men and women from discrimination on the grounds of sex or marital status. The Act concerned employment, training, education, harassment, the provision of goods and services, and the disposal of premises.
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Redefined Commonwealth right and the strict colonial legacy.
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Today, there are 53 countries in the Commonwealth.
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The 1992 British general election was held on 9 April 1992, and was the fourth consecutive victory of the Conservative Party, led by John Major, which thus retained its parliamentary majority.
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Tony Blair was the first minster.
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turning point in social economic and political policy.
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The Constitutional Reform Act modifies the office of Lord Chancellor and makes changes to the way in which some of the functions vested in that office are to be exercised. The Act also creates the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and abolishes the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords. It creates the Judicial Appointments Commission to select people for judicial appointments in England and Wales, and provides for judicial discipline in England and Wales.
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Authors : A. Susan Williams, Susan Williams
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In the third quarter of 2008, the British economy entered a recession, due to the subprime crisis that began in the summer of 2007 in the United States and which turned into a global financial and economic crisis in 2008.
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London and other major cities are shaken by riots.
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The UK-wide referendum on the Parliamentary voting system was held on Thursday 5 May 2011 (the same date as local elections in many areas) in the United Kingdom to choose the method of electing MPs at subsequent general elections.
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The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act opens marriage to same-sex couples in England and Wales.
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The United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, commonly referred to as the EU referendum or the Brexit referendum, took place on 23 June 2016 in the United Kingdom (UK) and Gibraltar to ask the electorate whether the country should remain a member of, or leave, the European Union (EU). The referendum resulted in 51.9% of the votes cast being in favour of leaving the EU.
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These are early elections the election was originally scheduled for May 2020 called at the request of Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May.
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The Conservative Party led by outgoing Government Leader Boris Johnson went from a relative majority of seats to a large absolute majority, achieving its best results since 1987, while the Labour Party, led by Jeremy Corbyn and a supporter of holding a second referendum on the EU question, won a historically small number of seats.
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Knife attack on passers-by in the Streatham neighbourhood; The assailant injures 2 people before being shot by the police after noticing that he was wearing an explosive jacket, which will prove to be fake. The attack is claimed by ISIS’s Amaq propaganda agency
