Cook, Peter, ref1, ref2
Cook, Robin, ref1, ref2, ref3
Cooper, Tommy, ref1
Corbyn, Jeremy, ref1
cotton industry: free-trade issues, ref1; magnates, ref1; international competition, ref1; strikes, ref1; decline, ref1; unemployment, ref1; mills in 1963, ref2
Council of Ireland, ref1
Country Life, ref1
Countryside Alliance, ref1, ref2, ref3
Cousins, Frank, ref1
Coventry, bombing, ref1
Coward, Noël, ref1, ref2
Cowley, Sir John, ref1
Crick, Francis, ref1
cricket, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill (1994), ref1
Cripps, Stafford: appearance and character, ref1, ref2; chancellor, ref1, ref2; rationing under, ref1; influence, ref1
Crisp, Quentin, ref1
Croatia, fascist state, ref1
Croke Park massacre (Bloody Sunday, 1920), ref1
Crosland, Anthony: The Future of Socialism, ref1; education proposals, ref1; on IMF, ref1
Crossman, Richard, ref1, ref2
Crowley, Aleister, ref1
currency see sterling
Currie, Edwina, ref1
Curzon, Lord, ref1, ref2, ref3
Cyprus: EOKA, ref1, ref2
Czechoslovakia: German population, ref1, ref2, ref3; British policy, ref1, ref2; borders guaranteed, ref1, ref2; Sudetenland ceded to Germany, ref1; new borders guaranteed, ref1; Czechia annexed by Germany, ref1; leaves eastern bloc, ref1
Dáil Éireann, ref1, ref2, ref3
Daily Express, ref1, ref2, ref3
Daily Herald, ref1
Daily Maiclass="underline" on Lloyd George, ref1; support for Conservatives, ref1, ref2; on suffragettes, ref1; on munitions, ref1; publication of fake Russian letter, ref1; readership, ref1; sales, ref1; praise for Hitler, ref1; pro-Franco views, ref1; support for BUF, ref1; Macmillan reshuffle leak, ref1; on Stephen Lawrence case, ref1
Daily Mirror, ref1, ref2, ref3
Daily Telegraph, ref1
Dalton, Hugh: appearance and character, ref1; chancellor, ref1; resignation, ref1
dancing, ref1, ref2
Dangerfield, George: The Strange Death of Liberal England, ref1
Danzig: German claim, ref1, ref2; Chamberlain’s offer, ref1
Dardanelles campaign, ref1, ref2, ref3
Dave Clark Five, ref1, ref2
Davies, Ray and Dave, ref1, see also Kinks
Davison, Emily, ref1
Dawes Plan, ref1
Dawson, Lord, ref1
Dawson, W. H., ref1
Day-Lewis, Ceciclass="underline" The Otterbury Incident, ref1
de Gaulle, Charles: liberation of Paris, ref1; hostility to Britain, ref1; vetoes Britain’s EEC membership, ref1, ref2; view of EEC, ref1
de Sancha, Antonia, ref1
de Valera, Éamon, ref1
Defence Force, ref1
Defence of the Realm Act (1914), ref1
defence spending: reduced, ref1, ref2; recommended increase, ref1; Chamberlain’s effort, ref1
Dehaene, Jean-Luc, ref1
Delors, Jacques, ref1, ref2, ref3
Delors Report, ref1, ref2
Democratic Unionist party, ref1
devolution, Scottish and Welsh, ref1, ref2
Diana, Princess, ref1, ref2
Dickens, Charles, ref1, ref2
disarmament: Versailles Treaty, ref1; promoting, ref1, ref2; World Disarmament Conference, ref1; public belief in, ref1, ref2; nuclear, ref1
DNA, discovery, ref1
Dobson, Frank, ref1
‘Dr Death’ (Paul Lincoln), ref1
Doctor Who (TV series), ref1, ref2
Dodd, Ken, ref1
Donegan, Lonnie, ref1
Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, ref1
Dowding, Lord, ref1
D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, ref1
Dreadnought, HMS, ref1
Dresden, bombing, ref1, ref2
drugs, recreational, ref1, ref2, ref3
Dublin parliament, ref1, ref2
Dunblane massacre, ref1
Dunlop, John Boyd, ref1
Durrell, Lawrence: Bitter Lemons, ref1
Dyer, Colonel, ref1
Easter Rising (1916), ref1, ref2
Eccles, David, ref1
Economic Advisory Council, ref1
Economist, The, ref1, ref2
Eden, Anthony: opinion of Churchill, ref1; foreign secretary, ref1; on appeasement policy, ref1; prime minister, ref1; appearance and character, ref1, ref2, ref3; political views, ref1, ref2; election (1955), ref1; Macmillan’s financial warning, ref1; Suez crisis (1956), ref1; resignation, ref1, ref2
education: Caribbean immigrants, ref1; first comprehensive school, ref1; grammar schools, ref1, ref2, ref3; secondary-modern schools, ref1; technical colleges, ref1; public schools, ref1; eleven-plus exam, ref1, ref2; Eton, ref1; attitudes to, ref1; new universities, ref1; Wilson government’s expenditure, ref1; polytechnics, ref1; fully comprehensive system proposals, ref1; comprehensive boom, ref1; free school milk, ref1; left-wing, ref1; corporal punishment, ref1
Education Acts: (1902), ref1; (1910), ref1; (1918), ref1; (1944, Butler Act), ref1
Edward VII, King: appearance and character, ref1; accession, ref1; popularity, ref1, ref2; ‘Edwardian age’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; ‘Entente Cordiale’, ref1; view of Germans, ref1, ref2; Labour MPs, ref1; People’s Budget crisis, ref1; death, ref1, ref2
Edward VIII, King (duke of Windsor): accession, ref1; appearance and character, ref1; relationship with Wallis Simpson, ref1; abdication, ref1
Edward, Prince, ref1
Egypt, German forces expelled, ref1
Eisenhower, Dwight D., ref1
elections: ‘first-past-the-post’ system, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; right to vote, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; see also general elections
electoral reform, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
electricity: engineering, ref1; transport, ref1, ref2, ref3; nationalization, ref1; production, ref1, ref2; industry, ref1; domestic use, ref1, ref2, ref3; post-war, ref1; supply, ref1; union, ref1; cuts, ref1
Electricity (Supply) Act (1926), ref1
Elgar, Edward, ref1
Eliot, T. S.: The Waste Land, ref1; verse drama, ref1
Elizabeth II: wedding, ref1; accession, ref1; coronation, ref1; opens nuclear power station, ref1; meetings with Wilson, ref1; MBEs for Beatles, ref1; Wilson’s resignation, ref1; silver jubilee, ref1; ‘annus horribilis’, ref1; visits Russia, ref1; son Charles’s marriage, ref1
Ellis, Ruth, ref1
Emergency Powers Act (1920), ref1
empire: public attitudes, ref1, ref2; immigration from outside, ref1; Joseph Chamberlain’s plan, ref1, ref2; overstretched, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; Lloyd George’s plan, ref1; Ireland’s position, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; supply of troops, ref1; expansion during WWI, ref1; Baldwin’s policy, ref1, ref2, ref3; Conservative policy in coalition government, ref1; Churchill’s view, ref1, ref2; League of Nations role, ref1; Neville Chamberlain’s position, ref1; queen’s titles, ref1; value of, ref1; loss of, ref1, ref2; African nationalism, ref1
Empire Windrush, HMT, ref1
employment: urban and suburban, ref1; rural, ref1; women in wartime, ref1, ref2; ‘marriage bar’ for women, ref1; see also unemployment
Employment of Women, Young Persons, and Children Act (1920), ref1
Employment Protection Bill (1975), ref1
Endurance, HMS, ref1
Enfield, Harry, ref1
Engels, Friedrich, ref1
English, Michael, ref1
Enigma code, ref1
Entente Cordiale (1904), ref1, ref2
environmental concerns, ref1
Epstein, Brian, ref1
Esher, Lord, ref1
Establishment Club, ref1
Ethiopia, famine, ref1
Eton College, ref1
European Commission, ref1, ref2, ref3
European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), ref1, ref2, ref3
European Court of Human Rights, ref1, ref2, ref3
European Economic Community (Common Market, EEC): British views of, ref1, ref2; British negotiations, ref1; de Gaulle’s veto, ref1, ref2; Heath’s policy, ref1; Labour view, ref1, ref2, ref3; acceptance of Britain, ref1, ref2; sovereignty issue, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; Clause Eleven of Treaty of Accession, ref1, ref2; Foot’s doubts, ref1, ref2; British entry (1973), ref1; Conservative view, ref1, ref2; referendum (1975), ref1, ref2; Thatcher’s view, ref1, ref2, ref3; Single Market, ref1, ref2; eastern Europe, ref1, ref2; Wilson’s attitude, ref1; federalism, ref1, ref2, ref3; Howe’s speech, ref1; Maastricht Treaty (1992), ref1, ref2