British history question: was there any major economic downturn and/or a rise of big populist movements in the UK between ~1850 and 1910? A Brexit-like period? Late Victorian + Edwardian era seems to have been a pretty serene era for Brits.
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Reactions to Crimean War, followed right away by Indian Mutiny?
Protests leading to professionalization of military, civil service, medicine.
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You can view en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U
click on each link, and get quick summary of what each election was about. To my eye it looks like politics as usual, with discontent at change (or the lack thereof) in the same way as always.
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