The British initially responded by ignoring the Dail, with Prime Minister Lloyd George believing it would simply collapse. ... The RIC succeeded in arresting large numbers of members of the Dail, using informers to help identify who these people were. ... Course #2 British response/sends in auxiliaries/reprisals The impact of this denied the IRC the opportunity to carry out their job, resulting in numbers plummeting as people left in fear for the lives of themselves and their families with resignations averaging just over 200 per month. ... Consequently, Prime Minister Lloyd George felt the n...

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Others, though acknowledge the contribution that the transatlantic slave trade made, don't regard it as the prime cause of a capitalist modernity3. ... To begin with British traders merely supplied slaves to the Spanish and Portuguese, however as their own colonies in North America and the Caribbean increased as did the numbers of British slave ships leaving port towns. ...

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Introduction The idea of `wicked problems' (Rittel and Webber, 1973) is by no means new in terms of social issues in the UK, indeed it has long been recognised that there are a series of problems/issues which, like the poor, and despite the `best efforts' of government, always seem to be with us and appear to be almost impossible to resolve. The problems of Britain's cities fall into this category; if we look back over the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries we find problems of poverty, unemployment, crime, etc, constantly reoccurring (see Steadman-Jones, 1976). However, at...

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