Asquith, Margot (Tennant), ref1
Astaire, Fred, ref1
asylum seekers: local councils’ obligation to, ref1; legislation, ref1, ref2; rise in number, ref1; not a concern, ref1
Atlantic Conveyor, SS, ref1
Attlee, Clement: background, ref1; view of MacDonald’s administration, ref1, ref2; Labour leadership, ref1, ref2; election results (1935), ref1; on Munich Agreement, ref1; illness, ref1; response to coalition proposal, ref1; prime minister (1945), ref1; appearance and character, ref1; cabinet, ref1; on rationing, ref1; on Britain’s financial position, ref1; calls second general election, ref1; education policy, ref1; on Macmillan, ref1
Auden, W. H., ref1
Auschwitz, death camp, ref1, ref2
Austria: German population, ref1; British policy, ref1, ref2; German incorporation, ref1; massacre of Jews, ref1
Austria-Hungary, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Awdry, Wilbert and Christopher: Thomas the Tank Engine series, ref1
Baden-Powell, Robert: career, ref1; Scouting for Boys, ref1
Baker, Kenneth, ref1
Baldwin, Oliver, ref1
Baldwin, Stanley: on People’s Budget, ref1; background, ref1, ref2; career, ref1; on new MPs (1918), ref1; on Lloyd George, ref1, ref2, ref3; on 1922 election, ref1; chancellor, ref1; Conservative leadership, ref1, ref2; conversion to protectionism, ref1, ref2; view of Labour minority government, ref1; election campaign (1924), ref1; election victory (1924), ref1; appearance and character, ref1, ref2, ref3; vision of a harmonious England, ref1; on class consciousness, ref1; relationship with son, ref1; opinion of Churchill, ref1; broadcasts, ref1; miners’ strike intervention, ref1; general strike (1926), ref1, ref2; housing policy, ref1; cultivating suburban lower middle class, ref1, ref2; general election campaign (1929), ref1; election results (1929), ref1, ref2; in National Government, ref1, ref2; view of new industries, ref1; view of continental affairs, ref1, ref2; policy towards League of Nations, ref1, ref2; opinion of Hitler, ref1; old age, ref1, ref2; military spending, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; fear of another war, ref1; response to remilitarization of Rhineland, ref1; threatens to resign over Edward VIII’s marriage, ref1, ref2; retirement, ref1; on dangers of bombing, ref1
Balfour, Arthur James: on death of Victoria, ref1; A Defence of Philosophic Doubt, ref1; character, ref1, ref2; administration, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; protectionism issue, ref1, ref2; defeat at 1906 election, ref1; leadership, ref1; relationship with C-B, ref1; People’s Budget crisis, ref1; speeding offences, ref1; view of suffragettes, ref1; resignation of leadership, ref1; in coalition cabinet, ref1, ref2; view of conscription, ref1; Ulster home-rule plan, ref1; foreign secretary, ref1, ref2; view of Lloyd George, ref1
Bane, Mary, ref1
Bank of England: gold reserves, ref1, ref2; using gold reserves to support sterling, ref1; ‘Socialization of Industries’, ref1; supporting sterling, ref1, ref2; unable to support sterling, ref1; setting exchange rates, ref1
Barber, Tony, ref1
Battle, John, ref1
Beatles: background, ref1, ref2; in Hamburg, ref1; recordings, ref1; Beatlemania, ref1; relationship with Stones, ref1; MBEs, ref1, ref2; US and Philippines tour, ref1; writing, ref1; Sgt. Pepper, ref1; press attitude to, ref1; status, ref1
Beaverbrook, Lord (Max Aitken): relationship with Lloyd George, ref1; campaign to replace Baldwin, ref1; support for Baldwin, ref1; support for Edward VIII, ref1
Beckett, Margaret, ref1
Belfast parliament, ref1, ref2
Belgium: African colonies, ref1; German invasion (1914), ref1; BEF, ref1; German invasion (1940), ref1, ref2; abdication of king, ref1
Belgrade, bombing, ref1
Bell, Julian, ref1, ref2
Benn, Tony: on technology, ref1; hostility to European project, ref1, ref2; economic views, ref1, ref2; on Belgrano sinking, ref1; support for miners, ref1
Bennett, Alan, ref1
Bennett, Arnold, ref1, ref2
Bentine, Michael, ref1
Berlin Wall, fall (1989), ref1
Berry, Chuck, ref1
Betjeman, John, ref1
Bevan, Aneurin: appearance and character, ref1; minister of health and housing, ref1; on free medical care, ref1; memories of childhood, ref1; establishing NHS, ref1; resignation over prescription charges, ref1; vision of welfare state, ref1; relationship with Foot, ref1, ref2; nuclear policy, ref1
Beveridge, Sir William, ref1, ref2
Bevin, Ernest, ref1, ref2
Beyond the Fringe (stage revue), ref1, ref2
Biba, ref1
Bicknell, Dr Franklin, ref1
bicycles, ref1, ref2
Big Issue, ref1
Black and Tans, ref1
Black Wednesday (1992), ref1, ref2, ref3
Blair, Tony: career, ref1; leadership election (1994), ref1; ‘tough on crime’, ref1; policy on right to protest, ref1; children’s schooling, ref1; election (1997), ref1; appearance and character, ref1, ref2, ref3; opt-in to Social Chapter, ref1; Good Friday Agreement, ref1; reputation for trustworthiness, ref1
Blake, Peter: Self-Portrait with Badges, ref1
Blake, William, ref1
Bloomsbury Group, ref1
Blunden, Edmund, ref1, ref2
Boer War, Second (1899–1902), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Boers: concentration camps, ref1; self-government, ref1
Bondfield, Margaret, ref1
Boothroyd, Betty, ref1
Borisov, German massacre of Jews, ref1
Bosnian civil war, ref1
Bottomley, Horatio, ref1
Bow, Clara, ref1
Boy Scout Movement, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bridgewater Three, ref1
Brierley, Walter: Means-Test Man, ref1
bright young things, ref1, ref2
Brighton, Grand Hotel bombing (1984), ref1
Bristoclass="underline" docks bombed, ref1; riots (1980), ref1
Britain: ‘civilizing mission’, ref1, ref2; population, ref1; immigration, ref1; imports, ref1; ‘Greater Britain’ plan, ref1, ref2; threat from Germany, ref1, ref2; car accidents, ref1; Versailles Treaty, ref1; industrial activity, ref1; naval agreement with Germany, ref1; war with Germany (1939), ref1; response to invasion of Poland, ref1; German air attacks (1940), ref1; Hitler’s invasion plans, ref1; Battle of (1940), ref1; VE day, ref1; welfare legislation, ref1; consuming society, ref1; hydrogen bomb, ref1; ‘special relationship’ with US, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; EEC negotiations, ref1, ref2, ref3; devaluation (1967), ref1; sovereignty, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; joins EEC, ref1; EEC referendum (1975), ref1; Falklands war (1982), ref1; ERM membership, ref1, ref2; death of Diana, Princess of Wales, ref1
British Aerospace, ref1
British Boundary Commission (1925), ref1
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), ref1, ref2, ref3
British Empire Exhibition (1924–25), ref1
British Expeditionary Force (BEF): assembled (1914), ref1; retreat (1940), ref1, ref2; Dunkirk rescue, ref1
British Gas Corporation, ref1
British Gazette, ref1
British Medical Association (BMA), ref1
British National Party, ref1
British Rail, ref1
British Social Attitudes, ref1
British Steel, ref1
British Union of Fascists (BUF), ref1
Brittain, Vera, ref1
Brown, George: view of Common Market, ref1; voluntary incomes policy, ref1; character, ref1; loses seat (1970), ref1
Brown, Gordon, ref1, ref2
Bryson, Bill, ref1
BSE crisis, ref1
Buchenwald survivor, ref1
Bulganin, Nikolai, ref1
Bulgaria, ref1, ref2
Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange, ref1, ref2