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WSPU - What does it stand for? Who was the founder of it? What is their slogan? |
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Women's Social and Political Union Emmeline Pankhurst "Deeds not Words" |
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| What country was the first to grant women the right to vote? |
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| What woman is associated with hunger strikes? |
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| What suffragette is associated with an arsen campaign? |
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| Who threw herself under a horse? |
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| What is the name of the act that allowed anyone over 30 who were also property owners, and the wives of property owners, to vote? |
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| Government Representation of the People Act |
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| What happened on July 2, 1928? |
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| All women over 21 were allowed to vote |
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| What did Mary Richardson do? |
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| Slashed a painting in the national gallery that was of a Spanish nude |
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| What, in a sense, saved the suffragette movement? |
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| They stopped their radical actions which distanced them from people because of WWI |
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| What caused the gin riots? |
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Gov't allowe unlicensed production of gin in England, and at the same time taxed imported spirits Riots began when government imposed a tax on gin in 1736 |
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| transportation to America (georgia) or the West Indies became a common punishment for serious crime |
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| 1752 Disorderly Houses Act |
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| Increased controls on places of entertainment |
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| Bodies of those hung would be dissected by scientists or hung in a public area |
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| Who founded the Bow Street Magistrates Court? |
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| Henry and Sir John Fielding |
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| Famous london criminal, had a gang of thieves, eventually caught and hung |
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| What type of rat spread the plague? |
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| What were the purple blotches people got called? |
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| How much of London's population died in 1665? |
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| The first person to die from the plague was... |
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| A bacterial infection of the gut... causes painful and rapid dehydration |
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| Who initiated investigation into London's sanitation and sewers, especially among the working classes? |
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In 1848 he flushed the sewers into the Thames again Another Cholera outbreak - 1848 1849 - lost his place on Metropolitan Commission Was still well-known and became knighted |
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| Metropolitan Water Act 1852? |
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| Allowed companies to continue taking water from the Thames as long as they didn't take it from downstream at Teddington Lock |
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| Who traced the source of the Cholera outbreak to a well on broad street in soho and is known as the father of epidemiology? |
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| Who issued reports that led to the Sanitary Act of 1866? |
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| What English philosopher was a major shareholder in the Royal Africa Company? |
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| Two individuals who headed the abolitionists? |
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| William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson |
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| A slave who ran away when his owner brought him to London. On another trip, his owner recognized him. Tried to take him back but it did not work bc slavery was ultimately outlawed by the Magna Carta |
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| Who was the largest landowner North of Piccadilly? |
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| Grosvenor estate has properties in 2 major areas. What are they? |
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| 12 year old who was heir to the Grosvenor Estate |
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| What are some places Christopher Wren designed? |
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| St. Paul's Cathedral, as well as over 52 other important buildings after the great fire |
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| What is Jeremy Bentham famous for? |
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Was a child prodigy, graduating from Oxford @ 12 Philosopher, utilitarianism Created secular alternative to Oxford/Cambridge - University College of London (anyone could attend) |
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| Why was there a grave with 26 bishops in? |
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| 26/40 bishops who died during the plague |
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| Edward the Confessor (last king to be made a saint by Rome) |
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| Where did the Lords and Commons meet? |
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Lords - White Chamber
Commons - Chapter House |
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| Name 2 churches that survived the fire of London. |
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| St. Bartholomew and Temple |
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| In Westminster, where did the Lords and Commons meet? |
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Lords met in white chamber Commons in chapter house |
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| Westminster bodies - one of Shakespeare's contemporaries, wrote The Alchemist, 1st Poet Laureate, Buried upright |
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| Who were some of the scientists buried in scientist's aisle? |
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| Poets who were buried in Westminster |
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| Chaucer, Henry James, TS Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde |
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| Samuel Bradford (buried in Westminster) |
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| Lord Chief Justice who let slaves go by the Magna Carta |
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| Who did Puritans scatter the bones of? |
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| American financer, played large role in expansion of tube in late 1800's |
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