Concept    From 1905 

Daylight Saving Time

Categories: Social Welfare

The idea of adjusting clocks in order to benefit from daylight was first proposed in New Zealand in 1895, and was first implemented by Germany and her allies in WW1 (to save coal). William Willett came up with the idea independently in the UK in 1905 but it was not implemented here until WW1 and in the US in 1918.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Daylight Saving Time

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William Willett - Chislehurst

William Willett, 1856 - 1915, noted house builder and initiator of British Su...

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William Willett - W3

Hamptons International, the estate agents, occupy William Willett’s former es...

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Toynbee Housing Society

Toynbee Housing Society

Toynbee Housing Association (which we guess is its new name) was created out of activities at Toynbee Hall.

Group, Property, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Shelter

Shelter

A charity that campaigns to end homelessness and bad housing in England and Scotland. Founded by Bruce Kenrick,  it evolved out of the work on behalf of homeless people being carried on at St Marti...

Group, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Royal Hospital Chelsea

Royal Hospital Chelsea

A retirement and nursing home for British soldiers who are unfit for further duty due to injury or old age. They are popularly known as ‘Chelsea Pensioners’. Founded by King Charles II in 1682 and...

Building, Armed Forces, Gardens / Agriculture, Social Welfare

6 memorials
Anti-Slavery Society

Anti-Slavery Society

First founded in Britain in 1823 as the 'Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions'. When slavery was abolished in British dominions the Society w...

Group, Race Issues, Social Welfare

1 memorial