'An Inspector Calls' timeline of context

By Beth Underwood

  • Titanic sinks

  • Oreos introduced

  • First world war

  • Edith Cavell murdered

  • Battle of Somme started

  • End of the Battle of the Somme

  • Limited numbers of women are given the vote

  • Exclusion of women from many jobs is made illegal

  • Insulin was discovered by Frederick Banting

  • Irish Civil War breaks out

  • Conservative Andrew Bonar Law becomes prime minister

  • First winter olymic games

  • All women over the age of 21 get the vote

  • Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

  • Wall Street Crash sparks the Great Depression

  • Gresford Mine Disaster kills 266 in North Wales

  • Second world war