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#PhossyJaw Note: Recent tvseries #EnolaHolmes 2 ends on the triumphant visual of the matchgirls marching toward Parliament, BUT the 1888 strike didn’t definitively eliminate the use of #whitephosphorus.
That took another 20 years; Bryant & May didn’t stop using white phosphorus until 1901, and it took the 1906 Berne Convention prohibiting the use of white phosphorus to compel the House of Commons to finally prohibit its usage in the UK after 1910.