Chapter 11 - Attitudes Towards Empire

Question 1

Architectures and creators included?

Answer 1

Herbert Baker and Edwin Lutyens

Question 2

Lutyens work was put in what gallery?

Answer 2

Johannesburg Art Gallery from 1911

Question 3

What is said to be the greatest representation of empire?

Answer 3

Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee 1897

Question 4

When and where was King George V’s coronation celebrated?

Answer 4

1911, Crystal Palace. Included models of parliamentary buildings, empire’s history and intra-empire sports championship

Question 5

What helped convey the value of empire more to the general public?

Answer 5

Souvenir books and postcards

Question 6

What helped to reach out to a new mass audience?

Answer 6

1890-1914 ‘golden age’ of newspaper publication where technical advances in printing meant more newspapers were sold

Question 7

How many copies of the Daily Mail were sold each day during the 1899-1902 Boer War?

Answer 7

1 million

Question 8

How many members were part of the Girls Friendly society by 1914?

Answer 8

200,000 who met to discuss British imperialism

Question 9

How many members of the Boy’s Empire League was there in 1900?

Answer 9

7,000 members. The group aimed to promote and strengthen a worthy imperial spirit in British born boys

Question 10

What was Imperial glory?

Answer 10

The fact that empire bought the spread of education and greater literacy and this influenced attitudes

Question 11

What was John A Hobson’s view towards Empire?

Answer 11

He believed that imperial expansion had been “driven by a search for nee markets & new opportunities for rich capitalists of Britain to make their own profits”

Question 12

What group supported Hobson’s view?

Answer 12

The socialist anti-imperialism group

Question 13

What did Emily Hobhouse find out during the Boer War?

Answer 13

She found out and wrote a report of 115,000 people in Boer War Concentration Camps in 1901. GB’s actions were criticized by liberal ahd Irish MPs, church figures and Europe

Question 14

What did William Digby do?

Answer 14

Served in India and set up Indian political agency to raise awareness about Indian grievances in 1888

Question 15

Why did Joseph Chamberlain support empire?

Answer 15

He believed empire would enable industrial recovery & brought together the 1902 Conservative Colonial conference for leaders of GB & white self governing colonies for closer economic ties

Question 16

Why was imperialism embraced in the years 1895-1905?

Answer 16

As Salisbury was PM and he was pro-imperialist and wanted to create a stronger, closely united empire & territorial expansion

Question 17

Why was GB supremacy threatened during the Boer War?

Answer 17

30,000 Boers held out against British forces & GB had to rely on troops from AUS and CAN

Question 18

What was done to improve national efficiency?

Answer 18

• Implemented 1902 Educational Act where 1,000 secondary schools were opened
• Free school meals (1906)
• School medical inspections (1907)
• Unemployment & health insurance (1911) to strengthen GB manpower

Question 19

How was British culture permeated?

Answer 19

By imperial themes on many levels, exhibitions and advertisements caused a spread of the awareness of Empire