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  • WSPU split from NUWSS

  • Free school meals

  • Worksmen's compensation act

  • School medical inspection

  • Mud march (NUWSS)

  • Childrens charter

  • Pensions act

  • Labour exchanges act

  • Henry Asquith becomes PM

  • Trade boards act

  • WSPU hunger strikes

  • Conciliation Bill

    Failed, tried again in 1911 but failed again.
  • National Insurance act

  • National insurance act

    Part 1: sickness insurance
    Part 2: unemployment benefits
  • School clinics

  • Women's pilgrimage (NUWSS)

  • Britain dependant on imported food

  • Cat and mouse act

  • Emily Davidson dies

  • Period: to

    WW1

  • DORA (defence of the realm acts)

  • Ministry of munitions set up

  • "Business as usual" stopped by Lloyd George

  • Conscription introduced

  • Sugar rationed

  • Food in short supply (German U-boats)

  • Some women granted suffrage

  • Rationing compulsary