Intended to be useful for a wide range of student abilities, this volume is also for any reader with an interest in modern British political history. It provides recommendations for further reading with references and historiography.How important were the experiences of the First World War in bringing about genuine democracy in Britain, including votes for women? This is one of the many major issues explored in this volume which begins with the faraway colonial struggle in South Africa. It then addresses the Liberal government, which came to power after a remarkable election landslide in 1906, and introduced the first major social security reforms. But the Prime minister, Herbert Asquith, struggled with trade unions, Irish nationalism and the increasingly radical suffragettes. All these issues then suddenly became eclipsed by the greatest war the world had yet witnessed.