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  • The Republican Party, Explained

    Times Change Toward the end of the 19th century, the Republican Party became increasingly associated Following the Great Depression in the 1920s, the party’s non-interventionist economic approach garnered blame for the slow recovery, impacting its popularity until the 1980s. Theodore Roosevelt A major progressive figure who served as president from 1901 to 1909. Ronald Reagan While in the White House from 1981 to 1989, he popularised and implemented the idea of

  • Guide: Antisemitism

    The church taught that Jews were “friends of the Devil” and “a race of vipers” right up until 1965 when

  • The British Empire, Explained

    Africa in 1821, the British Empire had expanded threefold and made up a large majority of the globe. 19th

  • UK Media, Explained

    Online BBC News Founded in 1922 - Public owned BBC News must be mentioned as another media outlet. The Independent Founded in 1986 - Owned by Alexander & Evgeny Lebedev It was intended to be a centrist The Daily Express Founded in 1918 - Owned by Richard Desmond A middle-market tabloid paper, covering The Sun Founded in 1964 - Owned by Rupert Murdoch A right wing newspaper that is supportive of the Conservative a low quality newspaper but had the highest monthly readership in 2019 The Daily Mirror Founded in 1903

  • Why Do So Many People Speak English?

    In fact, French was the language of diplomacy and communication throughout the 19th and early 20th century By 1922, the British Empire was at its height, covering almost a quarter of the Earth and about one fifth In fact, 1945 saw a steady decline in the British Empire. In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was written in both French and English, thus promoting English as the , and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization created in 1949.

  • Guide: Britain and the Israel-Palestine Conflict

    Firstly, in 1915, the British promised the territory, then under Ottoman control, to the people of Mecca Then in 1916, while dividing the territory of the fallen Ottoman Empire between Britain and France in But instead of this, in 1917, they promised it to a third group: the Jewish people. In light of this, the 1917 Balfour Declaration promised the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine, In 1947, the UN partitioned the area into two separate States, Israel and Palestine.

  • Guide: The Electoral College

    For example, in 1968 and 1992, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton won the presidency with just 43% of the

  • Everything You Need to Know About the Brexit Bill

    The island of Ireland was partitioned back in 1921 when Northern Ireland opted to remain a part of the This status of division has fuelled conflict ever since, reaching a peak during the 1970s and 80s with

  • Paris Climate Accord, Explained

    It builds upon the Convention, a much earlier declaration made by UNFCCC Parties in 1994. Parliament passed legislation requiring government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 100% relative to 1990s

  • Britain and the Slave Trade

    human beings as slaves, and refers primarily to the trafficking of Black Africans from the 16th to 19th

  • The UK Voting System

    the largest party to form a coalition with another party or call another election for instance, in 1974

  • Historical Revisionism and the School Curriculum

    lent itself to the development of the ‘great man theory’: a concept coined by Thomas Carlyle in the 19th In the late 1960s, almost as an antithesis to political history, emerged the field of social history: And in 1998, with DNA testing and the new weight assigned to race, gender and minority voices, came the

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