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- British politician Herbert Henry (also known as H.H.) Asquith (1852-1928), a reform-minded member of the Liberal Party, served in the British House of Commons for three decades and was prime minister from 1908 to 1916, leading Britain during the first years of World War I (1914-18).
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Badsey, Stephen: Great Britain (Version 1.1), in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2017-03-09. DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.10974/1.1.
Augusta of Great Britain (Augusta Frederica; 31 July 1737 – 23 March 1813) was a British princess, granddaughter of George II and the only elder sibling of George III. She was Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by marriage to Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick.
Tsar Nicholas II Biography. Born on 18th May 1868 at Alexander Palace in Russia, Nicholas was related to several monarchs in Europe, including being cousins with King George V of Britain and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. Nicholas and George looked uncannily similar. In 1894, Nicholas married Princess Alix of Hesse, one of Queen Victoria’s ...
Johnson, Matthew: Governments, Parliaments and Parties (Great Britain and Ireland) , in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2014-10-08. DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.10324.
Aug 4, 2014 · Conscription was not popular and in April 1916 over 200,000 demonstrated against it in Trafalgar Square. Of the 16,000 conscientious objectors in Britain during the First World War, more than one-third went to prison at least once, and 1,500 ‘absolutists’ were locked up for the duration of the conflict. Many more COs accepted non-combatant ...
On the work of the security service see Hiley, Nicholas: Counter-Espionage and Security in Great Britain during the First World War, in: English Historical Review 101/400 (1986), pp. 635-670. ↑ Defence of the Realm, in: The Scotsman, 7 August 1915, p. 10. ↑ See Eirug, Aled: The Opposition to the Great War in Wales 1914-1918, Cardiff 2018, p ...
Mar 10, 2011 · Ireland in 1914. In all, about 210,000 Irishmen served in the British forces during World War One. Since there was no conscription, about 140,000 of these joined during the war as volunteers. Some ...
