Colonialism

2- Look for information about (a few words and lot of images please):

Bismarck

Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen Duke of Lauenburg ( April 1, 1815 –July 30,1898) was a very well known aristocrat and statesman of the 19^th century in Europe. As Prime Minister of Prussia from 1862 to 1890, he was mainly responsible for unifying the many independent German countries and founding the German Empire in 1871. He became the first chancellor of the new Empire.

Bismarck was very conservative and he was strongly connected to the monarchy. He was not a big supporter of democracy. His most important goal was to make Prussia stronger and he achieved that through the unification of Germany. Bismarck tried to stop the socialist movement and to reduce the power of the Catholic Church. One way to stop socialism was to make the working class happy. He did that by introducing many social reforms like public health and accident insurance, as well as pensions for old people.

Livingston-Stanley.

David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and explorer in Africa. His meeting with H.M Stanley gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”.

His fame as an explorer helped drive forward the obsession with discovering the sources of the River Nile that formed the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of the African continent. At the same time his missionary travels, "disappearance" and death in Africa, and subsequent glorification as posthumous national hero in 1874 led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European "Scramble for Africa”.

Suez Canal.

The Suez Canal is a canal in Egypt. It lies west of the Sinai Peninsula. The canal is 163 km long (101 miles) and, at its narrowest point, 300 m wide (984 ft). It runs between Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea and Suez on the Red Sea. It was built by a French company. The canal was started in 1858 and finished in 1869.

The canal allows boats/ships to travel from Europe to Asia without having to go the way around Africa. It was built to go from Egypt to the Indian Ocean.

3- Visit the page of British Lybrary that permit you to read old newspapers, select one, for example, The News of the world, and look for news about colonialism, for example in 1886. Choose one and write a brief comment (summarysing and explaining it).

- News of the world 1,918 December.

http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/Default/Skins/BL/Client.asp?Skin=BL&enter=true&AppName=2&AW=1299849479850

4- Listen this song, what are they talking about?

The song talks about Colonialism. One person make question for the place what was colonize and the conquering answer the things what he view in this place.

Labour Movement

1- Mention some laws achieved by workers in England improving their work conditions.
The workers make strikes and demonstrations to achieve common goals: 8 hours labor, 8 hours recreation and 8 hours for rest.

2- What happened the first of May?
May Day occurs on May 1 and refers to several public holidays. In many countries, May Day is synonymous with International Workers’ Day, or Labour Day, a day of political demonstrations and celebrations organised by the unions, communists, anarchists, and socialist groups. May Day is also a traditional holiday in many cultures.

May Day can refer to various labour celebrations conducted on May 1 that commemorate the fight for the eight hour day. May Day in this regard is called International Workers’ Day, or Labour Day . The idea for a "workers holiday" began in Australia in 1856; after a Stonemason's victory, April 22nd was "Eight-Hour Day", a public holiday. With the idea having spread around the world, the choice of May 1st became a commemoration by the Second International for the people involved in the 1886 Haymarket affair.

3- Look for information about the suffragettes. Who was Emily Davison?

Suffragette is a term originally coined by the Daily Mail newspaper as a derogatory label for members of the late-19th and early-20th century movement for women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom, in particular members of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). However, after former and then active members of the movement began to reclaim the word, the term became a label without negative connotations. It derives from the word "suffrage", meaning the right to vote. They wanted to be involved in the running of the country and they wanted to be treated as equals to men.

Emily Wilding Davison also believed very strongly about suffrage and went to the extremes of killing herself by being trampled by King George V's horse, called Anmer, at the Epsom Derby on June 4, 1913. She died a few days later, on June 8. By the 1920's most women could vote and, in 1970, the fist Swiss woman was voted prime minister.