Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Support/Opposition for Boer War
- Opposition
- Social reformers
- Cadbury and Lloyd George
- LG coup. He had C invest in the Daily News so it would have
to publish pro-Boer material
- LG's successful anti-war meeting in
Bristol (1902)
- Arnold Bennet (Novelist)
- Kier Hardie (Labour Party MP/war critic)
- John Morley (Liberal MP)
- Actually, mainly just Liberal Left-wing folk
- Irish Nationalists
- Thought Boers were victims of British oppression
- Irish miners working in transvaal fought with the
Boers- Irish Commandos
- Beatrice Webb
(Beatrix Potter)
- Emily Hobhouse
- Went to concentration camps
- discovered inadequaciesa
- Millicent Fawcett (Sufferegist)
- Henry Campbell Bannerman
- 'rich man's war'
- Massingham, editior of Daily Chronicle, was fired because of pro- Boer views
- Support
- Majority of papers in early war
- Daily Mail
- Andrew Roberts
- Alfred Beit and Cecil Rhodes
- Mine Owners
- British Public
- Joseph Chaimberlain
- Sailsbury
- LG's failed pro-Boer conference in
Birmingham
- Conservatives