PSS (UK)
PSS (UK) is a national social enterprise in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom. Liverpool Personal Services Society was founded by Eleanor Rathbone and Dorothy Keeling in 1919, for over 100 years PSS has provided a range of support services. The charity operates services in Liverpool, Manchester, Wirral, Staffordshire, Cheshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire and North Wales. Head office PSS's head office is in Eleanor Rathbone House, Derby Road in the Sandhills area of Liverpool. PSS moved into this office in 2018 from its previous home on Seel Street in the city centre. History In 1918 the personal services committee of the Liverpool Council of Voluntary Aid was established with Dorothy Keeling as its first secretary. Founded in 1919 by philanthropist and prolific social campaigner Eleanor Rathbone and social worker and campaigner Dorothy Keeling in Liverpool. The title 'Liverpool Personal Services Society was not adopted until 1922 but tho ...
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United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in the British Isles that existed between 1801 and 1922, when it included all of Ireland. It was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into a unified state. The establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 led to the remainder later being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927. The United Kingdom, having financed the European coalition that defeated France during the Napoleonic Wars, developed a large Royal Navy that enabled the British Empire to become the foremost world power for the next century. For nearly a century from the final defeat of Napoleon following the Battle of Waterloo to the outbreak of World War I, Britain was almost continuously at peace with Great Powers. The most notable exception was the Crimean War with the Russian Empire, in which actual hostilities were relatively limited. How ...
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