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Leaders of the Opposition in the House of Commons

Leaders of the Opposition in the House of Lords

During this Period

Significant Events

• Reform Act 1884 extended voting rights to men.
• First Home Rule Bill for Irish self-governance is defeated in parliament.
• The Whitechapel Murders give rise to the legend of Jack the Ripper.

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Leaders of the Opposition - Part XI: Sir William Harcourt & the Earl of Kimberly.

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The Tenure of King Stojan Kovačević

Length of Tenure: January 25th, 1899 - December 6th, 1906

Party: Independent (aligned with People's Party)

DOMESTIC POLICY

-Vasa Pelagić ended his time as monarch with much controversy, and people wanted a safe choice, someone who was a moderate and not really aligned with either political party much. The People's Party was a more right leaning party, supporting tradition, a tight monetary policy, free trade, high tariffs with a mixed reception on foreign issues. The Socialist Party was a left-leaning party with socialism, utopian socialism and democratic-socialism being the main ideologies representing it. Hints of a third party were seemingly coming.

-The people, tired, wanted a moderate to help shake tensions away and possibly make the country go on a better path and have a better future. And so, when election procedures started on the day Pelagić died, there were many candidates. Bogdan Zimonjić was a member of the People's Party and was the initial favorite. Vaso Vidović, a member in Pelagić's cabinet, soon rose to the ranks among the Socialist Party. Maksim Baćović, an independent, seemed to be the leading compromise candidate.

-However, a dark horse candidate named Stojan Kovačević rose up. Kovačević was a popular Herzegovinian vojvoda who was famous for his service in the Herzegovinian uprising of 1875. After that, he lived a mostly quiet life but recently felt that the country was going down the wrong path. Kovaćevič was a registered independent and was mostly moderate on most issues, which appealed to the people.

-When election day came, it was very close but Kovačević out of the four came at top. He soon formed the parliament and his cabinet.

PPB - People Party of Bosnia, SPB - Socialist Party of Bosnia, I - Independent

-Kovačević's first act as king was to fufill his campaign promise of ''making the country have a more independent identity.'' He soon authorized a new flag, a new national animal, national food, a bigger army and a stronger navy. First, he went on working on the new fl

The First World War. World War I. The Seminal Tragedy. The Great War. The War to End All Wars.

In popular history narratives of the conflict with those names, it is not uncommon for writers or documentary-makers to utilise cliche metaphors or dramatic phrases to underscore the sheer scale, brutality, and impact of the fighting between 1914 - 1918. Indeed, it is perhaps the event which laid the foundations for the conflicts, revolutions, and transformations which characterised the “short 20th century”, to borrow a phrase from Eric Hobsbawm. It is no surprise then, that even before the Treaty of Versailles had been signed to formally end the war, people were asking a duo of questions which continues to generate debate to this day:

How did the war start? Why did it start?

Yet in attempting to answer those questions, postwar academics and politicians inevitably began to write with the mood of their times. In Weimar Germany, historians seeking to exonerate the previous German Empire for the blame that the Diktat von Versailles had supposedly attached to them were generously funded by the government and given unprecedented access to the archives; so long as their ‘findings’ showed that Germany was not to blame. In the fledgling Soviet Union, the revolutionary government made public any archival material which ‘revealed’ the bellicose and aggressive decisions taken by the Tsarist government which collapsed during the war. In attempting to answer how the war had started, these writers were all haunted by the question which their theses, source selection, and areas of focus directly implied: who started it?

Ever since Fritz Fischer’s seminal work in the 1960s, the historiography on the origins of World War I have evolved ever further still, with practices and areas of focus constantly shifting as more primary sources are brought to light. This Monday Methods post will therefore identify and explain those shifts both in terms of methodological approaches to the question(s) and key ‘battlegrounds’, so to speak, when it comes to writing about the beginning of the First World War. Firstly however, are two sections with the bare-bones facts and figures we must be aware of when studying a historiographical landscape as vast and varied as this one.

#Key Dates

To even begin to understand the origins of the First World War, it is essential that we have a firm grasp of the key sequence of events which unfolded during the July Crisis in

Now we are in the 20th Century with our last Victorian Prime Minister, only a hundred more years to go.

31. Third Marquess of Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil

Significant Events:

• Scramble for Africa
• Second Boer War
• Fashoda Incident
• Anglo-Zanzibar War
• Venezuelan Crisis

32. Fifth Earl of Rosebery, Archibald Primrose