What were the causes of Urban Protest in Merthyr in May-June 1831? PESCRMT Merthyr Rising 1831 P Political Political moves have disappeared. Right to vote. Making it sound grim as trying to pass a law. Court of request. E Economy Keep up wages of miners. “Scotch Cattle” “Truck System” “Tommy Shop” Child labour – it’s cheaper. ‘trapper’ S Social Children working Unhygienic living and unsanitary conditions. C Cultural Children working. R Religious Chapels encouraged to join
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TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH POETRY By Adeel Salman Knowledge of contemporary British poetry is of great importance when it comes to understanding the reigning trends of England. The 1970s saw a fair amount of polemic concerning the discontinuities of the national "traditions‚" most of it concerned with poetry‚ all of it vulnerable to a blunt totalizing which demonstrated the triumphant ability of "nation" to organize literary study and judgment--as it does still‚ perhaps more than ever.
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The History of the British Isles. Around 3000 years BC many parts of Europe including the British Isles‚ were inhabited by a people called the Iberians. Some of their descendants are still found in the North of Spain (the Iberia Peninsula). We don’t know much about these early people. We can learn something from there skeletons‚ their weapons. The Iberians used stone weapons and tools. During the period from the 6th to the 3rd century BC‚ a people called Celts‚ spread across Europe from the East
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A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY VOL. I [img_p6] Allan Ramsay pinx George III. A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BY MARCUS R. P. DORMAN‚ M.A. VOL. I FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE WAR WITH FRANCE TO THE DEATH OF PITT (1793–1805) WITH SIX PHOTOGRAVURES LONDON KEGAN PAUL‚ TRENCH‚ TRÜBNER & CO. LTD PATERNOSTER HOUSE‚ CHARING CROSS ROAD 1902 The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved
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Pre- Independence Law Commissions The First Law Commission was established in 1834 by the British Government under the Chairmanship of Lord Macaulay. It suggested various enactments to the British Government‚ most of which were passed and enacted and are still in force in India. Few of the most importance recommendations made by this First Law Commission were those on‚ Indian Penal Code (first submitted in 1837 but enacted in 1860 and still in force)‚Criminal Procedure Code (enacted in 1898
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Education of Indians had become a topic of interest among East India Company officials from the outset of the Company’s rule in Bengal.[65] In the last two decades of the 18th century and the first decade of the nineteenth‚ Company officials pursued a policy of conciliation towards the native culture of its new dominion‚ especially in relation to education policy.[65] . During the 19th century‚ the Indian literacy rates were rumoured to be less than half of post independence levels which were 18
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of the post war period as identified by Matthews was of full employment‚ chronically rising prices‚ an abnormal ratio of domestic investment to income and relatively high growth in income per capita by historical standards. In this epoch of British history government policy principally tried to manage the level of inflation‚ the balance of payments‚ the level of investment‚ the rate of growth and the level of employment. The tools available to the government can broadly be divided into two categories
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valve’ theory to attack the Moderates in the Congress * Suggested Congress ‘was a product of Lord Dufferin’s brain’ * Argued that ‘the Congress was started more with the object of saving the British Empire from danger than with that of winning political liberty for India. The interests of the British Empire were primary and those of India only secondary’. * Added ‘no one can say that the Congress has not been true to that ideal’ India Today by R.Palme Dutt * Myth of the safety valve
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2. Introduction History and its influence on British 17th century’s literature By regarding British’ literary works up to the 17th century‚ one can recognize many parallels to the history and culture of that time. In my following term paper I am though going to investigate where the parallels between history‚ culture and literature are. I will do so by using chosen passages from British literary texts from the Renaissance and Restoration Literature. Therefore I will first define the characteristics
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This article is about the art form. For other uses‚ see Poetry (disambiguation). Literature Major forms Novel Poem Drama Short story Novella Genres Comedy Drama Epic Erotic Nonsense Lyric Mythopoeia Romance Satire Tragedy Tragicomedy Media Performance (play) Book Techniques Prose Poetry History and lists Outline of literature Glossary of terms History (modern) Books Writers Literary / Poetry awards Discussion Criticism Theory Sociology Magazines Literature
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