Loog Oldham, Andrew, ref1
Loos, Battle of (1915), ref1
Lords, House of: Tory-dominated, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; rejects People’s Budget, ref1; abolition suggested, ref1; veto issue, ref1; passes People’s Budget, ref1; veto restricted, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; new peers, ref1; rejects third Home Rule Bill, ref1; leadership, ref1; vote on capital punishment, ref1; challenge to ban on homosexuals in armed forces, ref1; asylum legislation issue, ref1; number of hereditary peers reduced, ref1
LSD, ref1, ref2
Ludendorff, General, ref1
Luftwaffe, ref1, ref2, ref3
Lulu, ref1
Maastricht Treaty (1991–3), ref1, ref2; opt-outs, ref1, ref2, ref3
McCartney, Paul, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
MacDonald, Ramsay: background and political views, ref1, ref2; Lib–Lab pact, ref1; election (1906), ref1; on strikes (1910), ref1; pacifist principles, ref1, ref2, ref3; gradualist socialism, ref1; loses seat (1918), ref1; career, ref1; Labour leadership, ref1; administration, ref1, ref2; cabinet (1924), ref1; foreign policy, ref1; resignation, ref1; general strike (1926), ref1; election results (1929), ref1; administration, ref1; cabinet (1929), ref1; on Great Depression, ref1; economic policies, ref1, ref2; prime minister in emergency coalition (National Government), ref1, ref2; expelled from Labour party, ref1; election (1931), ref1; position in National Government, ref1, ref2, ref3; disarmament cause, ref1; relationship with Mussolini, ref1; old age, ref1; opinion of Edward VIII, ref1
McGuinness, Martin, ref1
McKenna, Reginald, ref1
Mackenzie, Kelvin, ref1
McLaughlin, Mitchell, ref1
MacLean, Donald, ref1
McLeigh, Sir John, ref1
MacLeod, Iain, ref1
Macmillan, Harold: on planned economy, ref1; opinion of Churchill, ref1; financial warning to Eden, ref1; prime minister, ref1; appearance and character, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; Ghana speech (1960), ref1; ‘wind of change’ speech in South Africa (1960), ref1; supporters, ref1; critics, ref1; ‘stop-go’ economics, ref1, ref2; cabinet reshuffle, ref1; nuclear policy, ref1; US relations, ref1; Profumo affair, ref1; resignation, ref1; passports for Ugandan Asians, ref1
Macpherson report (1999), ref1
Macstiofain, Sean, ref1
Major, John: chancellor, ref1, ref2; ERM entry, ref1, ref2, ref3; leadership election victory, ref1; character, ref1; background and career, ref1; prime minister, ref1; cabinet, ref1; Gulf war, ref1; Maastricht Treaty, ref1, ref2, ref3; on inflation, ref1; currency crisis (1992), ref1; ‘Back to Basics’ speech (1993), ref1, ref2, ref3; privatization of railways, ref1; dealing with Eurosceptics, ref1; vetoes Dehaene’s presidency, ref1; cabinet reshuffle, ref1; ‘anti-yob culture’ speech, ref1; on ERM, ref1; US relations, ref1; leadership resignation and re-election (1995), ref1; Vance–Owen Bosnian peace plan, ref1; resignation as Conservative leader, ref1
Malta: siege broken, ref1
Manchester: suburbs, ref1; transport, ref1; American slang, ref1; slums, ref1; docks bombed, ref1; NHS inauguration, ref1; in 1960s, ref1; education, ref1; ‘Darkness at Noon’, ref1; IRA bombing (1996), ref1
Manchester Guardian, ref1, ref2
Manchuria, Japanese invasion (1931), ref1
Mandelson, Peter, ref1
manufacturing: decline, ref1, ref2; boom after WWI, ref1; mass production, ref1; new industrial revolution, ref1; after crash (1929), ref1; decline (1996), ref1
Marcos, Ferdinand, ref1
Marne, Battle of the (1914), ref1
Marshall, T. H., ref1
Martin, George, ref1
Marx, Karl, ref1, ref2
Mass Observation, ref1
Masterman, Charles, ref1, ref2
Matteotti, Giacomo, ref1
Maudling, Reginald, ref1, ref2
Maxse, Leo, ref1
MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club), ref1
MDMA (‘ecstasy’), ref1
Mellor, David, ref1
Mental Deficiency Act (1913), ref1
Merchant, Piers, ref1
Metaxas, Ioannis, ref1
Meyer, Sir Anthony, ref1
Meyrick, Kate, ref1
Michael, George, ref1
middle class: suburban life, ref1; move to the country, ref1; view of working classes, ref1; Chamberlain’s appeal to, ref1; voting patterns, ref1, ref2; establishment views, ref1; taxation, ref1; MPs, ref1; powerful, ref1; peers, ref1; social mobility, ref1; women, ref1, ref2, ref3; Law’s background, ref1; flappers, ref1; extra vote, ref1; Labour’s appeal to, ref1, ref2; Labour MPs, ref1, ref2; lifestyle, ref1; class consciousness, ref1; homes, ref1; Conservative appeal to suburban lower middle class, ref1, ref2; Conservative voters, ref1, ref2; wireless listening, ref1; cinema going, ref1; hiking, ref1; view of means test, ref1; view of unemployment, ref1; involvement in Spanish civil war, ref1; BMA, ref1; in theatre and literature, ref1; Mods, ref1
Militant Tendency, ref1
Military Service Bill (1916), ref1
Millar, Ronald, ref1
Millennium Dome, ref1, ref2
Miller, Jonathan, ref1, ref2
Milligan, Spike, ref1
Mills, Percy, ref1
Mills & Boon, ref1
Mitterrand, François, ref1
Mods, ref1, ref2
Mons, Battle of (1914), ref1
Monster Raving Loony Party, ref1
Montgomery, Bernard, ref1
Moonies, ref1
Moore, Bobby, ref1
Moore, Dudley, ref1
Moorhouse, Geoffrey: The Other England, ref1, ref2; on Beatles, ref1
Moran, Lord, ref1
Morgan, Kenneth O., ref1
Morgan, Piers, ref1
Morley, John, ref1
Mormons, ref1
Morning Post, ref1, ref2
Morrison, Herbert, ref1
Mosley, Oswald, ref1, ref2
Motor Car Act (1903), ref1, ref2
motor cars, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
motorways, ref1, ref2
Mountbatten, Lord, ref1
Muggeridge, Malcolm: on unemployment research, ref1; on Macmillan, ref1; on state of England, ref1
Munich Agreement (1938), ref1, ref2, ref3
Murray, Len, ref1
Murray-Leslie, Dr R., ref1
music: rock ’n’ roll, ref1; guitars, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; skiffle, ref1; Sixties, ref1, ref2; British chart-toppers, ref1; New Romantics, ref1; synthesizers, ref1; ‘Acid house’, ref1; ‘Second Summer of Love’ (1988), ref1; raves, ref1
Muslim League, ref1
Mussolini, Benito: rise to power, ref1, ref2; approach to economics, ref1; Stresa declaration (1935), ref1, ref2; response to sanctions, ref1; invasion of Abyssinia (1935), ref1, ref2; relationship with Hitler, ref1, ref2, ref3; courted by British government, ref1; opinion of British government, ref1; Chamberlain’s policy toward, ref1, ref2, ref3; death, ref1
Nagasaki, atomic bombing, ref1
Nairn, Ian, ref1
Narvik, Battle of (1940), ref1
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, ref1
National Book Drive, ref1
National Coal Board, ref1, ref2, ref3
National Congress, India, ref1, ref2, ref3
National Farmers’ Union, ref1
National Front, ref1
National Government: formation, ref1; cabinet, ref1, ref2; Labour opposition, ref1; leaving the gold standard, ref1; election (1931), ref1; Tory-dominated, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; departure of free-trading Liberals, ref1; housing policy, ref1, ref2; unemployment issue, ref1, ref2, ref3; police powers, ref1; sympathy for Japan, ref1; naval agreement with Germany, ref1; rearmament concerns, ref1, ref2, ref3; Stresa declaration (1935), ref1; response to invasion of Abyssinia, ref1, ref2, ref3; election (1935), ref1; response to Spanish civil war, ref1; nonintervention policy, ref1, ref2; Public Order Act (1936), ref1
National Health Service (NHS): established, ref1; prescription charges, ref1
National Health Service Act (1946), ref1
National Insurance Acts: (1911), ref1, ref2; (1946), ref1
National Labour party, ref1, ref2
National Liberal party, ref1, ref2, ref3
National Lottery, ref1
National Minimum Wage Act (1998), ref1
National Peace Council, ref1
National Review, ref1, ref2