Time Line1910-1914

Land for Allotments and early concerns for road safety and the motor car were issues for Winsham...
...but the outside world had wider matters to consider.

1910 Fritz Kreisler commissions Elgar to write his Violin Concerto

1911 Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary

1911 Liberals abolish House of Lords right to Veto

1911 National Insurance Act provides cover against sickness and unemployment

1912 Woodrow Wilson becomes President of  USA

1912The 'Cubists ' make their mark in Paris

1913 Ulster Volunteer Force formed in response to passing of Home Rule Bill

1914 Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo lit the fuse that ignited the Great War

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