European Union (EU): established, ref1; Thatcher’s view, ref1; ERM crisis, ref1; directives, ref1; single currency (euro), ref1, ref2; ‘benefit tourism’, ref1; BSE crisis, ref1
Eurosceptics: National Front, ref1; Communist party, ref1; term, ref1; Thatcher’s position, ref1; Major’s position, ref1; response to Maastricht, ref1; aims, ref1; response to Black Wednesday, ref1; Portillo’s position, ref1, ref2; Major’s relationship with, ref1, ref2; Britain’s use of veto, ref1; leadership challenge, ref1; ECHR issue, ref1; Santer’s message to, ref1
evacuation of children (1939), ref1, ref2
Evans, Moss, ref1
Eve magazine, ref1
Evening Standard, ref1
Everett, Kenny, ref1
Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM): Thatcher’s policy, ref1, ref2; Britain’s entry, ref1, ref2; Major’s position, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; effects, ref1; fall of sterling, ref1, ref2; Britain’s suspension from, ref1, ref2
Fabian Society, ref1, ref2
Factories Act (1937), ref1
Falklands War (1982), ref1
Family Income Supplement, ref1
Faulkner, Brian, ref1
Fayed, Dodi, ref1
feminists: groups, ref1; post-war, ref1, ref2
Fergusson, Sir James, ref1
Festival of Britain (1951), ref1
Financial Times, ref1
Fisher, Sir Warren, ref1
FitzGerald, Garret, ref1
flappers, ref1
Flynn, Errol, ref1
food: imports, ref1; rationing (1917–19), ref1, ref2; mass-produced, ref1; tinned, ref1; families below the poverty line, ref1, ref2; rationing (1940–54), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; BSE and beef exports, ref1, ref2
Foot, Isaac, ref1
Foot, Michaeclass="underline" on healthy rationing diet, ref1; on Enoch Powell, ref1; on EEC entry terms, ref1; background and character, ref1, ref2; Social Contract, ref1, ref2; Tribune editor, ref1; Guilty Men, ref1; elected MP (1945), ref1; loses seat (1955), ref1; unilateral disarmament, ref1; in Wilson’s cabinet (1974), ref1; Lib–Lab pact, ref1; Labour leadership candidacy (1976), ref1; Labour leadership (1980), ref1; speech on strikes (1978), ref1; election defeat (1983), ref1; EEC policy, ref1
footbalclass="underline" in General Strike, ref1; popularity, ref1; seaside, ref1; fans, ref1; World Cup (1966), ref1
Forster, E. M.: Howards End, ref1
France: ‘Entente Cordiale’, ref1; defence strategy, ref1; African colonies, ref1; mobilization, ref1; Germany declares war on, ref1, ref2; desire for vengeance after WWI, ref1; occupation of Ruhr, ref1; Stresa declaration (1935), ref1; response to Manchurian incident, ref1; response to Spanish civil war, ref1; Czechoslovakia policy, ref1, ref2, ref3; pledges support for Poland, ref1; war with Germany (1939), ref1; response to invasion of Poland, ref1; German invasion (1940), ref1; German occupation of Paris, ref1; trade agreement with Germany, ref1; Suez (1956), ref1; Heath’s negotiations, ref1; Falklands war, ref1
Franco, General, ref1, ref2, ref3
Frankie Goes to Hollywood, ref1
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, ref1
free trade, ref1, ref2; see also Tariff Reform
French, Sir John, ref1
Freud, Sigmund, ref1
Frost, David, ref1
Fry, Christopher, ref1
Gaitskell, Hugh: appearance and character, ref1; minister for fuel and power, ref1; introduction of prescription charges, ref1; on anti-Americanism, ref1; view of European Community, ref1; Profumo affair, ref1; nuclear policy, ref1
Galtieri, General Leopoldo, ref1, ref2
Gandhi, Mahatma, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Garbo, Greta, ref1
Gardner, Joy, ref1
Gardner, Llew, ref1
gas: lighting, ref1; poison, ref1, ref2, ref3; masks, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; supply, ref1; Russian, ref1, ref2
Geldof, Bob, ref1
General Belgrano, ARA, ref1
general elections: (1895), ref1; (1900; ‘khaki election’), ref1, ref2; (1906), ref1, ref2, ref3; (January 1910), ref1; (December 1910), ref1, ref2, ref3; (1918), ref1, ref2; (1922), ref1; (1923), ref1; (1924), ref1, ref2, ref3; (1929), ref1; (1931), ref1; (1935), ref1; (1945), ref1; (1950), ref1; (1951), ref1; (1955), ref1; (1959), ref1; (1964), ref1; (1966), ref1; (1970), ref1; (February 1974), ref1, ref2; (October 1974), ref1, ref2; (1979), ref1, ref2; (1983), ref1, ref2; (1987), ref1, ref2, ref3; (1992), ref1; (1997), ref1
General Omnibus Company, ref1
generations, conflict between, ref1
Geneva Protocol (1925), ref1
gentry, landed, ref1, ref2, ref3
George, Eddie, ref1
George V, King: accession, ref1, ref2; Lords reforms, ref1, ref2; appearance and character, ref1; opinion of Lloyd George, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; response to strikes (1910–11), ref1; coronation, ref1; view of suffragettes, ref1; Irish veto question, ref1; anti-German, ref1; changes name of royal family, ref1; fear of revolution, ref1; concern for Ireland, ref1, ref2; opens Belfast parliament (1921), ref1; concerned about sale of peerages and knighthoods, ref1; opinion of MacDonald, ref1, ref2, ref3; advice to Baldwin, ref1; first broadcast, ref1; sympathy for miners, ref1; formation of National Government, ref1; fear of another war, ref1; death, ref1
George VI, King: accession, ref1; appearance and character, ref1; naval career, ref1; political views, ref1; visit to Festival of Britain, ref1; death, ref1
Germany: industry and technology, ref1, ref2; expansion of armed forces, ref1, ref2, ref3; Morocco naval incident, ref1; African colonies, ref1; declares war on France, ref1, ref2, invades Belgium, ref1; Mons victory, ref1; army’s treatment of civilians, ref1; naval strategy, ref1, ref2, ref3; peace treaty with Russia, ref1, ref2; abdication of Kaiser, ref1; Republic, ref1; Armistice, ref1; colonies divided between Allies, ref1; reparations, ref1, ref2; terms of Versailles Treaty, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; communist movement, ref1, ref2; Weimar Republic, ref1; Nazism, ref1; withdrawal from League of Nations, ref1, ref2; naval agreement with Britain, ref1; conscription reintroduced, ref1; expansion of air force, ref1; Rhineland remilitarized, ref1; Anti-Comintern Pact, ref1; support for Franco, ref1; massacre of Jews (Kristallnacht), ref1; Pact of Steel with Italy, ref1; annexation of Czechia, ref1; Nazi–Soviet Pact (1939), ref1, ref2; invasion of Poland (1939), ref1; invasion of Belgium and France, ref1; invasion of Greece, ref1; invasion of Russia (1941), ref1; war with US, ref1; death camps, ref1; Allied air raids, ref1; Red Army advance on Berlin, ref1; trade agreement with France, ref1; post-war economic miracle, ref1; EEC role, ref1; IMF role, ref1; unification, ref1; interest rates, ref1; Bundesbank, ref1, ref2
Gerry and the Pacemakers, ref1
Ghana, independence, ref1, ref2
Gibraltar, IRA members shot (1988), ref1
Gielgud, John, ref1
Gladstone, William Ewart: Irish policy, ref1, ref2, ref3; Liberal party, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Goebbels, Joseph, ref1
gold standard: return to, ref1, ref2; maintaining, ref1; leaving, ref1, ref2
Gold Standard Act (1925), ref1
Goldsmith, James, ref1, ref2
Gollancz, Victor, ref1
Good Friday Agreement (1998), ref1, ref2
Goons, the, ref1, ref2, ref3
Goose Green, Battle of (1982), ref1
Gorbachev, Mikhail, ref1, ref2
Göring, Hermann, ref1, ref2, ref3
Gormley, Joe, ref1, ref2
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), ref1
Government of India Acts: (1919), ref1; (1935), ref1
Government of Ireland Act (1920), ref1, ref2
Gow, Ian, ref1
Graham, Victoria, ref1
gramophones, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Grange Hill (TV series), ref1
Greece: invasions (1941), ref1
Greenham Common, women’s camp, ref1
Greenwood, Arthur, ref1
Greenwood, Walter: Love on the Dole, ref1
Grey, Sir Edward: pro-imperialist, ref1; naval policy, ref1; anti-German, ref1; attitude to war, ref1, ref2