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Boer War
- Impact of reporting
and propaganda
- Newspapers
- Only Manchester Guardian
opposed the war.
- Anti war newspapers sales
declined. Pro-war
newspapers sales increased
- Only Manchester Guardian
opposed the war.
- Newspapers
- Guerilla warfare
- Scorched earth policy
- Blockhouses
- Concentration camps
- Boer women and black Africans
- Blacks were
in much worse
conditions
- Less food and worse
medical attention
- Less food and worse
medical attention
- Blacks were
in much worse
conditions
- Overcrowding, poor organisation,
bad sanitation meant that disease
and hunger were comon
- Children suffered most: measles, typhoid, malaria,
bronchitis and pneumonia
- Death rates were at 34% in
white camps, higher for blacks
- By the end of the war 20,000 Boers and
12,000 blacks had died in the camps
- By the end of the war 20,000 Boers and
12,000 blacks had died in the camps
- Emily Hobhouse
- Her reports
published in
Manchester
Guardian
- Public were outraged by the reports
- Her reports
published in
Manchester
Guardian
- Henry Campbell Bannerman
- Condemned the camps and the scorched
earth policy as 'methods of barbarism'
- Condemned the camps and the scorched
earth policy as 'methods of barbarism'
- Boer women and black Africans
- The Fawcett Commission
- Confirmed
Hobhouse's
findings
- Recommended
improvements
- Death rates
fell to 6.9%
then 2% later
- Death rates
fell to 6.9%
then 2% later
- Confirmed
Hobhouse's
findings
- Scorched earth policy
- National efficiency
- Problems with
recruitment - 2/3 of
volunteers were turned
away for poor health or
physical condition
- Poverty was
causing these
problems and
meant Britain
were unable to
defend her Empire
- Concerns on national efficiency
were one of the motivations for
the Liberal Reforms
- Concerns on national efficiency
were one of the motivations for
the Liberal Reforms
- Poverty was
causing these
problems and
meant Britain
were unable to
defend her Empire
- Problems with
recruitment - 2/3 of
volunteers were turned
away for poor health or
physical condition
- Reforms
- Army reforms
- Esher Reforms
- Improvements to
army organisation
- New and better
weapons introduced
- Improvements to
army organisation
- Haldane Reforms
- British
Expeditionary
Force (BEF)
introduced
- An important
contribution to
the war
- An important
contribution to
the war
- The Territorial
Army (TA) improved
and strengthened
- British
Expeditionary
Force (BEF)
introduced
- Made the British Army
stronger, more effective
and more efficient
- Esher Reforms
- Social reforms
- The Liberal Reforms of 1906-14
- Designed to improve health and
well-being of the poorest in society
- Free School
Meals Act of
1906
- National
Insurance
Act 1911
- Designed to improve health and
well-being of the poorest in society
- The Liberal Reforms of 1906-14
- Army reforms
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