The impact of industrialization on the lives of ordinary people before 1850

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  1. How serious was the threat of popular radicalism in Britain during the French Wars?
  2. Discuss the impact of industrialization on the lives of ordinary people before 1850. Have the negative effects been exaggerated?
  3. What did the 1832 Reform Act change, and who did it benefit?
  4. Was the Chartist movement a failure?
  5. What role did religion play in addressing the problems of industrial Britain in the 19th century?
  6. What does the Great Exhibition of 1851 tell us about Victorian society?
  7. What were the causes of the British empire’s vast territorial expansion in the 19th century?
  8. In what ways did women’s experience of the city change between 1880 and 1914?
  9. To what extent had Irish independence become inevitable by 1914?
  10. What was cultural impact of the First World War in Britain?
  11. What was “shell shock” and how did views of it change in Britain in the era of the First World War?
  12. To what extent did the empire have an impact on British culture?
  13. Why did political extremism fail in Britain in the 1930s?
  14. What impact did the experience of war on the Home Front have on British society? To what extent was it a “People’s War”?
  15. Why did Britain grant independence to so many of its colonies after the Second World War?
  16. Is the “Thatcher Revolution” a myth?

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