St Edward's 150 Years - by Nicola Hunter
St Edward’s: 150 Years
Chapter 2 / Wardens
YEARS
WARDEN DATE HISTORICAL EVENT
YEARS
WARDEN DATE HISTORICAL EVENT
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1877–93 Simeon ( 1 )
1880 Education becomes compulsory for children under the age of ten 1881 First home in England uses electric light 1886 Benz granted patent for his first automobile
1971–8 H. Christie ( 9 )
1973 Britain joins the European Economic Community 1977 CommodorePET,firstsuccessfullymass-marketedPC,introduced
1971–8
1877–93 1877–93 1877–93 1893–6
1978–88 Phillips ( 10 )
1978/9 Winter of Discontent
1978–88 1978–88 1978–88
1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister
1887 Hertz invents radar
1981 Brixton Riots
Hobson ( 2 )
1894 Death Duties introduced
1982 Falklands War 1988–2004 D. Christie ( 11 ) 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invents the WorldWide Web 1988–2004 1992 Channel Tunnel opens, linking England and France 1988–2004 1994 First women priests are ordained by the Church of England 1988–2004 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in Paris 1988–2004 2001 9/11 in New York 1988–2004 2003 Invasion of Iraq 2004–11 Trotman ( 12 ) 2004 Facebook is launched 2004–11 2009 Barack Obama becomes 44th President of USA 2011– Jones (13) 2012 Olympic Games at Stratford in London
1896–1904 Hudson ( 3 )
1897 Marconi wins patent for radio communication
1896–1904 1896–1904 1896–1904
1901 Queen Victoria dies 1901 Birth of Labour Party
1904
Entente Cordiale signed between England and France
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1904–13 1904–13 1904–13 1904–13 1913–25 1913–25 1913–25 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1954–66 1954–66 1954–66 1966–71 1966–71 1966–71
Sing ( 4 )
1908 Old Age Pension introduced
1908 Olympic Games at the White City in London
1912 Titanic sinks
1912 Royal Flying Corps is established
1913–25 Ferguson ( 5 )
1914 Outbreak of WWI
1918 Limited numbers of women given the vote for the first time
1919 Lady Astor becomes first female MP 1920–1 Oxford and Cambridge grant full status to women undergraduates 1926 First public demonstration of television
1925–54 Kendall ( 6 )
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1927 BBC is created
1928 First ‘talkie’ film shown in UK
1929 Wall Street crash
1935 First Penguin paperbacks go on sale
1936 Jarrow March 1939 Outbreak of WWII
1945 Two atomic bombs dropped 1945 UN comes into existence
Left: Stained glass from the Warden’s House. Below: View of the School before Oakthorpe Road was built.
1948 National Health Service established. Olympic Games at Wembley
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1951 Festival of Britain
1952 Queen Elizabeth II succeeds her father, George VI
1953 DNA structure discovered
Fisher ( 7 )
1956 John Osborne play Look Back in Anger first staged
1960 The Pill first used widely in the US 1966 England win the football World Cup
1966–71 Bradley ( 8 )
1966 The Beatles release Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
1967 Abortion and homosexuality are legalised
1969 Man lands on the moon
1971 Decimalised curency takes over from £sd
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