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Scottish History 1880 to 2013
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Elementary schooling made statutory
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WWI Begins
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Education -between the wars
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The Great Depression - Wall St Crash
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Mass Emigration from Scotland
From 1921 total of 400,000 Scots left for other countries to find jobs -
WWII Begins
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Education
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WWII Ends
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Rise in Socialism - irradicate social ills
Get rid of Squalour, Ignorance, Want, Disease and Idleness
New Towns in Scotland
Plans for new industries -
1960's - Industries start to decline
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1960's Major Building projects planned
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Willie Ross - Secretary of State for Scotland demands more money for Scotland
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Socialist State Planning
masterplan for Scotland
Jobs, houses, power supplies, roads
but it never emerged -
£ was devalued-all government spending frozen
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Emigration to Australia and Canada £10
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First SNP seat won - Winnie Ewing
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Decline of Shipyard industry
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Scotland has poorest housing in Britain
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Home Rule bill forced through by Harold Wilson
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Scottish devolution referendum
The Scottish referendum of 1979 was a post-legislative referendum to decide whether there was sufficient support for a Scottish Assembly proposed in the Scotland Act 1978 among the Scottish electorate. This was an act to create a devolved deliberative assembly for Scotland. The Act provided for special conditions on the referendum stipulating that for the Act not to be repealed at least 40% of the electorate would have to vote Yes in the referendum.
The referendum resulted in a 51.6% support for -
Conservative UK Gov - Margaret Thatcher
Free market
De-nationalisation of industries and business -
Unemployment rose to 1920's levels
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1980's - decline of coalmining, steelworks, shipyards
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3rd consecutive Conservative Government elected
No majority in Scotland -
Self Determination principle
Scottish Constitutional Convention - Assembly/Parliament
Clarm of Right signed by Donald Dewar and pages of other signatories. -
Scottish Parliament
The Scotland Act 1998 (an Act of the UK Parliament) created a Scottish Parliament and passed to it the powers to make laws on a range of issues -
2000 - first time Scottish people were not emigrating in masses
