Special Sub Facts

Question 1

Who was Felix Green?

Answer 1

Oxfrod educated, radical journalist, writes for the Listener,
Time to Spare

Question 2

When was the General Strike?

Answer 2

4th - 13th May 1926

Question 3

When was the Wheatley Housing Act?

Answer 3

1924

Question 4

When was the Carlton Club meeting?

Answer 4

19th October 1922

Question 5

When was Black Friday?

Answer 5

15th April 1921

Question 6

Which seat does Leo Amery hold?

What positions does he hold and when?

Answer 6

Birmingham South
First Lord of the Admiralty 1922-24
Colonial Secretary 1924-29

Question 7

When was the Zinoviev Letter?

Answer 7

24th October 1924

Question 8

Where is Walter Greenwood from?

Answer 8

Salford

Question 9

Whats the background of Beales and Lambert?

Answer 9

Lambert - Editor of Listener

Beales - Economist/ Social Historian at LSE

Question 10

How does Orwell describe Jack Common?

Answer 10

‘The authentic voice of the ordinary man’

Question 11

Where is Headlam MP for?

Answer 11

Barnard Castle - County Durham, Mining Community

Question 12

What is Headlam’s electoral record?

Answer 12

Wins 1924, Loses 1929 (after Liberal intervention), Wins 1931, Loses 1935

Question 13

Where is Phillip Snowden MP for?

Answer 13

Colne Valley, Yorkshire

Question 14

Whats the background of Barbara Ayrton Gould?

Answer 14

WSPU - active in Labour party after WW1, Writes for Herald, goes on to become Chief Womens Officer of the Party

Question 15

What is the background of Margaret Bondfield?

Answer 15

Leading female trade unionist of 1920s, first women elected to TUC executive, one of the first 3 female Labour MPs 1923, first female minister

Question 16

When was the Jevons & Madge survey of Bristol conducted?

Answer 16

1935-38, not published until 1946

Question 17

When were each of the elections of the 1920s?

Answer 17

15th November 1922, 6th Decemeber 1923,

29th October 1924, 30th May 1929

Question 18

What are the two key housing acts of the 1930s?

Answer 18

1930 Greenwood Act, 1935 Housing Act

Question 19

Background of Jevons and Madge

Answer 19

Sociologists attached to University of Bristol

Madge particularly active on the left

Question 20

What passage does brierley contribute to Beales & Lambert

Answer 20

Colliery Banksman

Question 21

Who is Jimmy Thomas

Answer 21

Labour MP, Head of Railway Union, negotiates with Baldwin gov. Prior to general strike on behalf of TUC

Question 22

Background of Margaret Llewelyn Davies

Answer 22

Head of Women’s Cooperative Guild

Question 23

When was the BBC founded and when did it become a Corporation?

Answer 23

Founded 1922, becomes corporation in 1927

Question 24

Who opens ‘Time to Spare’

Answer 24

S.P.B Mais - writer, journalist, broadcaster