To what extent did protests during the First World War?
Represent a challenge to public authority?
Introduction:
The duration of the First World War between 1914 and 1919, as with any other major international crises, sparked not only a general period of foreign political unrest throughout Europe but also of domestic unrest within Britain. Pressures of continual production of munitions and arms affected the British working-class, the Trade Union Movement, and the questions surrounding suffrage or the right to vote.
In the beginning of the war there seemed to be growing resentment of the political restrictions and the privatisation of some of Britain’s major industries. Not only were civil liberties curtailed by emergency regu
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