1. The death rate for men aged 55–64 in 1980 was less than that for men aged 45–54 in 1900 – a ten-year remission of mortality. For women aged 55–64 the death rate in 1980 was virtually like that for women aged 35–44 in 1900 – a twenty-year remission.
1. The posthumous influence of the Hegelian philosopher T. H. Green, dead for a quarter of a century by 1906, has been too freely invoked in understanding the outlook of the Edwardian Liberal Party. Plainly not all New Liberals were philosophers, still less neo-Hegelians; and Green’s politics of moral regeneration did not envisage anything like a welfare state.
1. The 1893 Home Rule bill would have reduced the number of Irish MPs at Westminster to 80; but this was still full representation as measured by current population. By 1912 Ireland was entitled to 64 MPs on a strict population basis; the Home Rule bill would have reduced this to a total of 42 (including Ulster, of course).