Athelstan

Athelstan

Athelstan (893 / 894 – 939), called the Glorious, was the First King of England from 924 or 925 to 939.

Jean-François Champollion

Jean-François Champollion 

 

Jean-François Champollion (1790 -1832) was a French  classical scholar, philologist andorientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs .Champollion published the first translation of the Rosetta Stone  hieroglyphs in 1822, showing that the Egyptianwriting system was a combinationof phonetic and ideographic signs.

The FUGGER

The FUGGER

The FUGGER family was a historically prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists like the Welser and the Höchstetter families. This banking family replaced the family known as the Mediciwho influenced all of Europe during the Renaissance. The Fuggers took over many of the Medici assets as well as their political power and influence

Robert Owen

Robert Owen

Robert Owen is considered one of the original socialists. His ideas about cooperation and workers' rights laid the foundation for socialist principles and trade unions and influenced thinkers such as Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.

Robert Owen was born in Newtown, Wales, on May 14, 1771, the son of a shopkeeper. Though he left school at the age of 9, he was precocious and learned business principles rapidly in London and Manchester. By 18 he was manager of one of Manchester's largest cotton mills. In 1799 he purchased the mills at New Lanark, Scotland; they became famous for fine work produced with high regard for the well-being of the approximately 2,000 employees, of whom several hundred were poor children.

John Wesley

John Wesley 

1-John Wesley (1703 – 1791) was a Church of England’s cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley is largely credited, along with his brother  Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching .

2-In contrast to George Whitefield's Calvinism, Wesley embraced the Arminian doctrines that were dominant in the 18th-century Church of England. Methodism in both forms was a highly successful evangelical movement in the United Kingdom, which encouraged people to experience Jesus Christ personally.

The Co-operative movement

The Co-operative movement

Like Charisma nd Trade Unionism,Co-operation also was started as a working class movement.The frst experimentation in cooperation were made by Robert Owen in london when the workers failed to get the help of the government.Following Owen’s example,some Lancashire weavers opened a little shore at Rochdale in 1844.They realized that self help was the best and hence cooperated with one another for the sake of mutual help.

Reform Act of 1832

Reform Act of 1832

1-Reform Act of 1832 was an Act of British Parliament ,that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales. According to its preamble, the act was designed to "take effectual Measures for correcting divers Abuses that have long prevailed in the Choice of Members to serve in the Commons House of Parliament."

2-Calls for reform had been mooted long before 1832, but perennially without success. The Act which finally succeeded was proposed by the Whigs led by the Prime Minister Lord Grey. It met with significant opposition from the Pittite factions in Parliament that had governed the country for so long .

William Ewart Gladstone & Benjamin Disraeli

William Ewart Gladstone

1-William Ewart Gladstone (1809 –1898) was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times (1868–1874, 1880–1885, February–July 1886 and 1892–1894), more than any other person.

2-Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time. He had also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times (1853–1855, 1859–1866, 1873–1874, and 1880–1882).

Factory system & Industrial Revolution

Factory system

The factory system was a method of manufacturing first adopted in England at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 1750s and later spread throughout the world. Industrialisation led to the creation of the factories. Arguably the first was John Lombe's water-powered silk mill at Derby, operational by 1721. However, the rise of the factory came somewhat later when cotton spinning was mechanised. The factory system was largely responsible for the rise of the modern city, as large numbers of workers migrated into the cities in search of employment in the factories.

Chartist Movement

Chartist Movement

Chartism was a movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century, between 1838 and 1850. It takes its name from the People's Charter of 1838. Chartism was possibly the first mass working class labour movement in the world. Its leaders have often been described as either "physical force" or "moral force" leaders, depending upon their attitudes to violent protest.

Chartists were largely unsuccessful at convincing British Parliament to reform the voting system of the mid-19th century; however, this movement caught the interest of the working class. The working class interest in politics from that point on aided later suffrage movements.

UGC NET 2011

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History Department

Q.6.Who was the head of the committee formed by the government to enquire into the Jallianwalabag Massacre.?.

A-O’Dyer

B-General Dyer

C-John Simon

D-Hunter

Answer:D