British History
A period of great technological advancement in the UK.
What is the Industrialisation/industrial revolution?
The name of the British prime minister from 1979-1990.
What is Margaret Thatcher?
The author who wrote "Nobody's Story".
Who is Charles Dickens?
The unfair situation in society when some people have more opportunities, money, etc. than other people:
What is inequality?
The queen of the UK throughout most of the 19th century.
Who was Queen Victoria?
A group of people of working class origin who have been stereotyped based on their supposed violent behaviour and tacky looks.
What are chavs?
The University that Molly Innes attends.
A set idea that people have about what someone or something is like, especially an idea that is wrong:
What is a stereotype?
The year in which the (most famous) miner's strike in the UK took place.
The idea that England consists of two parts with differences in culture and economy.
What is the North/South divide?
The name of the character who is the leader of the colliery band in "Brassed Off".
What is Danny?
People living in one particular area or people who are considered as a unit because of their common interests, social group, or nationality:
The former colony known as "the crown of the British Empire".
What was India?
One of Margaret Thatcher's most famous statements.
What is "there's no such thing as society"?
Finish the lyrics from "Crown":
Searchin' every corner of my mind
Lookin' for the answers I can't find
I have my reasons and life has its lessons and
I tried to be grateful and count all my blessings
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What is: "But heavy is the head that wears the crown"
A situation in which people are governed in an unfair and cruel way and prevented from having opportunities and freedom:
What is oppression?
The date of Queen Elisabeth II's death.
What is September 8th, 2022?
The three main social classes in the Victorian Age.
What are the landed classes, the middle class and the working classes?
Finish the stanza from "London":
I wander thro' each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
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The process by which a place, especially part of a city, changes from being a poor area to a richer one, where people from a higher social class live:
What is gentrification?