Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 4 (of 4).—1892-1914Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)
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Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 4 (of 4).—1892-1914
Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Humor
Women's Rights movement, i. 249, 252, 257; ii. 98, 236, 251 _seq._;
iii. 126 _seq._, 128;
as canvassers, iii. 129;
militant suffragism, iv. 98, 163, 168, 171, 174, 178-80;
in municipal office, iv. 168;
cleavage in Asquith's Cabinet over, iv. 178-9
Wood, Sir Henry Wood, i. 289
Wood, General Leonard, report on U.S.A. army, iv. 91
Workhouse scandals, i. 8, 20, 21; ii. 48 _seq._; iii. 96; iv. 127
Working men, condition of, i. 3-60; ii. 58, 76-7;
sympathy with the North in American war, ii. 71;
as candidates for Parliament, ii. 86 _seq._;
high wages, ii. 89, 92 _seq._;
improvidence of, iv. 113;
aversion from work, iv. 243
Working women's colleges, ii. 56
Workmen's Compensation Act, iv. 127
Wright, brothers (Orville and Wilbur), inventors and pioneer aviators,
iv. 184
Wyndham, Rt. Hon. George, M.P., and Irish Land Purchase Act, iv. 4, 49;
death, iv. 58
X-rays discovered, iv. 181, 189
Yankees, ii. 71
Yates, Edmund, of the _World_, iii. 170
_Yellow Book_, the, iv. 230, 283
Yerkes, Charles Tyson, organizes London electrical railways, iv. 198
York, Dr. Thomson, Archbp. of, ii. 50, 120
York, Duke of, marriage, iv. 215
York, Duke and Duchess of, visit Ireland, iv. 220;
visit Australia in 1901, iv. 222
"Young England" party, _P.'s_ hostility to, i. 24;
supports Bill for regulation of factory labour, i. 25;
and reform of the Church, i. 94;
white waistcoats, emblem of, i. 268
"Young Ireland" party, i. 196
Young men in the 'eighties and 'nineties, iii. 264
Young, poet, _P._ on, ii. 272
Zabern incident, iv. 85, 91
Zæo, acrobat, iii. 287; iv. 203
Zancigs, the, iii. 253
Zanzibar, Bp. of, and Kikuyu controversy, iv. 160
Zazel, acrobat, iii. 23, 100, 287, iv. 203
Zeppelins, trial trips of, iv. 183
Zola, Emile, iii. 353; iv. 28
Zulu war, iii. 23 _seq._, 111
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Vol. IV of IV., by Charles L. Graves
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