any one out there who..............................

[lolliepops]

knows anything about the social conditions of living in britain from 1917/1924? please help it can be anything from a wonder bra being invented to people used to brush their teeth with rats tails!!! i need some help for a presentation i am doing x

Well in 1918 British women over the age of 30 are given the vote and A global influenza pandemic kills an estimated 20 million in one year, more than died during World War I.

thats fab compo thanxs very much anybody know any thing else?

No NHS, no antibiotics, slums, suspect there was no unemployment benifit, no vacinations and TB. When do you need it by dp is very good on history but not home untill late.

not doing the presentation till thursday so if he can help please ask him if you dont mind.

1917 - women started "bobbing" their hair, British royal family renounced German names and titles
1918 meat and butter rationed in London, world wide influenza epidemic
1920 - 3747 divorces granted in Britain

are your finding this somewhere or do you just genrally know these things! not that i care realy i am just so pleased i now have something to woffle on about! x

A few more bits of info-

No welfare state.
VD was widespread.
Marie Stopes opened her first clinic in London. Contraception not widely available.
Nansy Astor first woman in parliment.
Widespread strikes for shorter working week.
Coal Strikes when government refused to nationalise the coal industry.

The flu pandemic was known as Spanish flu because it was only being reported there because Spain was not involved in the war therefore had no news blackout. However, this led to the British public deciding that Spaniards were dirty. This stuck til about the 1950s.

More US soldiers died of the flu than in battle. (Ironic really considering that in the first Gulf war more British soldiers were accidently killed by the Americans than by the Iraqis!)

Marie Stopes and Stella Brown start producing pamphlets about women and sex.

Nancy Astor becomes first woman MP. She is an American. We have a female MP yet not all women are entitled to vote.

The band-aid is invented in 1920. Think his name was Dickson! He may have been Johnson's partner or worked for J&J.

In 1918, women who owned property were given the vote. Women did not receive equal suffrage until 1928? (I think! maybe 1929 double check)

I used to do this every year with Y6 when we did Britain in the 20th century. They've changed it now to Britain since 1945 so I've forgotten most of it. Very interesting though!