list of items for 1914 - 1939 in Times They Were A-Changing
- Appeasement
- The term ‘appeasement’ is used to describe the response of British foreign policy makers in the 1930s to the rise of the dictator powers, especially Nazi Germany…
- New Industries
- The suffering and unemployment of the old industrial areas have frequently dominated views of the period between the wars…
- Responses to the Great Depression
- Britain in the 1930s saw an increase in support for extremist groups as the economic crisis deepened…
- The General Strike, 1926
- The General Strike began on 3rd May 1926…
- Unemployment and the Great Depression
- The 1930s in Britain have been referred to as the 'Hungry Thirties'; a picture of poverty with lines of broken, unemployed men…
- Women in Trade Unions
- In contrast to the successes for women's trade unionism before the First World War, the period between the wars saw a slump in membership…