unseen poetry and prose context

Question 1

how did England feel compared to other European countries and the USA

Answer 1

powerless

Question 2

what event enforced the feeling of lack of power?

1899-1902

Answer 2

the South Africa war

Question 3

what years were free school meals introduced?

Answer 3

1905

Question 4

what seem to have founded the roots of the welfare state?

Answer 4

extensive social legislation of the Liberal Partu

Question 5

what was no longer preserved for the rich?

Answer 5

sea side towns

Question 6

when did educaton become comulsary until the age of 10?

Answer 6

1880s onward

Question 7

when was there a near universal literacy?

Answer 7

by the 1900s

Question 8

when did all women over 21 receive the right to vote?

Answer 8

1928

Question 9

decline of aristocracy

Answer 9

Warfare was not discriminative, a bullet in the trenches would not distinguish between classes. war offered a prospect of social and economic advancement, as soldiers rose up the ranks no matter where they came from

Question 10

the lost generation

after the war

Answer 10

people returning from the war often refused to conform to the conservative and patriarchal environemnts. They asked questions about the social and political order that took the country to war in the first place.

Question 11

what type of corset was still fashionable in the 1900s?

Answer 11

s shaped corset

Question 12

what did people wear in the 1920s?

Answer 12

women wore flapper dresses and men began to experiment with more colourful suits and ties

Question 13

what happened on the 27th April 1908?

Answer 13

the olympics were opened at White City London

Question 14

what were the 1908 olympics recognised to be?

Answer 14

the most organised games to date, featuring 22 nations with over 2000 athletes

Question 15

what was the early 20th century like?

Answer 15

-time of optimism in Britain
- the nation had an expansive Empire, well admired navy, thiriving industry and strong political institutions
- would have now been called a global ‘superpower’

Question 16

what time period does modernism in art refer to?

Answer 16

a specific period starting around 1900 and coming into its own in the 1920s

Question 17

what was modernism skeptical of?

Answer 17

• the post-Victorian middle class

Question 18

what was modernism an overhaul of?

Answer 18

the legacy of comfort, secuirty, paranoia, rigidity, and heirarchy

Question 19

what was modernism the area of?

Answer 19

l’art pour l’art

Question 20

what did artists, in the modernist era, break from the idea of?

Answer 20

they should represent something intellectual or noble, but instead many indulged in wild experinment and the creation of distrubing pieces meant to provoke their audience

Question 21

what was one of the quintessential modernist movement?

Answer 21

futurism

Question 22

what was futurism?

Answer 22

a movement of poets, playwrites, and painters who celebrated speed, technology, violence and chaos

Question 23

what did futurist painting often depict?

Answer 23

vast clouds of dark smoke with abstract images of trains and radio towers or sometimes just junbles of colour

Question 24

what was modernism considered to be by the nazis?

Answer 24

‘degenerate art’

Question 25

what exact date did eduction until 10 become compulsory in the UK?

Answer 25

2nd August 1880

Question 26

what was state expenditure on education in 1880?

Answer 26

£4 million

Question 27

what was state expenditure on education at the end of Victoria’s reign?

Answer 27

£12 million

Question 28

what date did married women obtain the right to acquire their own property?

Answer 28

1st January 1883

Question 29

when did the women’s suffrage campaign gain momentum?

Answer 29

October 1897