national service, ref1
National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis), ref1
National Unemployed Workers’ Movement (NUWM), ref1, ref2
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, ref1
National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association, ref1
nationalization: Labour policy for railways, ref1; Conservative policies, ref1; Labour proposals, ref1; demand for, ref1; ‘Socialisation of Industries’ committee, ref1; Crosland’s arguments, ref1; near-completion of, ref1; Labour party’s Clause IV, ref1
NATO, ref1
navy: arms race, ref1; dreadnought battleships, ref1; strike (1931), ref1; treaty (1922), ref1; Narvik defeat (1940), ref1
Nevill, Lady Dorothy, ref1
New Party, ref1
New Statesman, ref1
News of the World, ref1
newspapers: right-wing, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; motorist debate, ref1; readership, ref1, ref2; praise for Hitler, ref1; response to Munich Agreement, ref1; BMA press campaign, ref1; Profumo case, ref1
Nicholas II, Tsar, ref1
Nicholson, Emma, ref1
Nicolson, Harold, ref1, ref2
Nivelle, Robert, ref1
Nixon, Richard, ref1
Nonconformists: political representation, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; MPs, ref1, ref2; education issue, ref1; Asquith’s background, ref1, ref2; Lloyd George, ref1, ref2, ref3; Law, ref1
Normandy, Allied landings (1944), ref1, ref2
North Sea oil, ref1
Northcliffe, Lord: pro-motorist campaign, ref1; supports Lloyd George, ref1, ref2, ref3; influence, ref1
Northern Ireland: established, ref1; Special Powers Act, ref1; unrest, ref1; internment policy, ref1, ref2; the Troubles, ref1, ref2, ref3; army sent in, ref1; civil-rights marches banned, ref1; Bloody Sunday (1972), ref1; Direct Rule, ref1; Loyalist paramilitaries, ref1; RUC, ref1; IRA ceasefire (1994), ref1, ref2; peace talks between Loyalists and Sinn Féin, ref1; joint framework document, ref1; withdrawal of troops, ref1; paramilitary activity, ref1; Good Friday Agreement (1998), ref1
Norway, ref1, ref2
nuclear power, ref1, ref2
nuclear weapons: Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ref1; hydrogen bomb test, ref1; Polaris, ref1; unilateralism, ref1; Greenham Common protest camp, ref1; SDI (‘Star Wars’), ref1; US–USSR treaty, ref1; SDI (‘Star Wars’), ref1
O’Connell, Daniel, ref1
O’Hadhmaill, Feilim, ref1
oiclass="underline" sanctions on Italy, ref1, ref2; British reserves, ref1, ref2; supply route, ref1, ref2; prices, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; crisis, ref1; North Sea, ref1; Russian, ref1, ref2; Kuwait, ref1
Old Age Pensions Act (1908), ref1
Olivier, Laurence, ref1, ref2
Open University, ref1, ref2
Operation Desert Storm, ref1
Operation Dynamo, ref1
Operation Eagle Eye, ref1
Operation Irma, ref1
Operation Pied Piper, ref1
Operation Torch, ref1
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, ref1
Orgreave, Battle of (1984), ref1
Orton, Joe, ref1; Entertaining Mr Sloane, ref1; Loot, ref1; What the Butler Saw, ref1
Orwell, George: on WWI, ref1; on class, ref1; on property-owning democracy, ref1; Keep the Aspidistra Flying, ref1; The Road to Wigan Pier, ref1, ref2; style, ref1; on Left Book Club, ref1; Homage to Catalonia, ref1; on post-war mood, ref1; Foot comparison, ref1; quoted by Major, ref1
Osborne, John, ref1, ref2
Ottoman Empire, ref1, ref2, ref3
Owen, David, ref1
Oxford Union: pacifist motion (1933), ref1
pacifism: MacDonald’s, ref1, ref2; public attitudes, ref1, ref2, ref3; decline among socialists, ref1
Paisley, Ian, ref1, ref2, ref3
Pakistan: independence, ref1; war with India, ref1
Pankhurst, Emmeline, ref1, ref2
paper salvage, ref1
Parliament see Commons; Lords
Parliament Act (1911), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Passchendaele (third Battle of Ypres, 1917), ref1
patriotism, ref1
Pavelić, Ante, ref1
pawn shops, ref1, ref2
Peace Day celebrations (1919), ref1
Pearl Harbor (1941), ref1
Pearse, Patrick, ref1
Pentecostal movement, ref1
‘People’s Budget’ (1909), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Percy, Lord Eustace, ref1
Perón, Juan, ref1
Peyton, John, ref1
Philip, Prince (duke of Edinburgh), ref1, ref2
Philips, Morgan, ref1
Phillips, Mark, ref1
Pierrepoint, Albert, ref1
Pinochet, Augusto, ref1
Pinter, Harold: The Caretaker, ref1; The Homecoming, ref1; view of Thatcher, ref1
Poland: authoritarian rule, ref1; German population, ref1; pledges by Britain and France, ref1; Danzig position, ref1; German invasion (1939), ref1, ref2; Hitler’s Polish policies, ref1; death camps, ref1; leaves eastern bloc, ref1
Polaris missile, ref1
police: powers, ref1; acquittals, ref1; institutional racism, ref1
political correctness, ref1
pollution: concern, ref1; smog, ref1, ref2; motor vehicles, ref1
Pompidou, Georges, ref1, ref2
population, ref1
Portillo, Michael, ref1, ref2
Portsmouth, Lord, ref1
Portugal, ref1, ref2
Powell, Enoch: background, ref1, ref2; ‘rivers of blood’ speech, ref1; dismissal by Heath, ref1; view of Northern Ireland, ref1; Ugandan Asians issue, ref1; hostility to European project, ref1, ref2, ref3; called a fascist, ref1
Prescott, John, ref1, ref2
Presley, Elvis, ref1, ref2
press barons, ref1, ref2, ref3
Priestley, J. B.: on Edward VII, ref1; on officer class, ref1; on hikers and cyclists, ref1; English Journey, ref1, ref2, ref3; plays, ref1
Prior, Jim, ref1
prison issues, ref1, ref2
Private Eye, ref1, ref2
privatization: Thatcher’s policy, ref1, ref2; British Telecom, ref1, ref2; British Gas Corporation, ref1; National Coal Board, ref1; British Rail, ref1; National Power, ref1; Powergen, ref1; Post Office question, ref1; British Energy, ref1
Profitt, Russell, ref1
Profumo, John, ref1, ref2
prostitution, ref1
Protection from Eviction Act (1964), ref1
Protection of Children Act, ref1
protectionism: debate, ref1; Joseph Chamberlain’s plans, ref1, ref2; support for, ref1, ref2; Austen Chamberlain’s position, ref1; Law’s views, ref1; Baldwin’s position, ref1, ref2; lack of voter support for, ref1, ref2; ‘Empire Free Trade’, ref1; MacDonald’s position, ref1; Neville Chamberlain’s measures, ref1; Conservative policy, ref1, ref2; Thatcher’s view, ref1
Public Assistance Committee (PAC), ref1
Public Order Act (1936), ref1
pubs, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Punch magazine, ref1
Quant, Mary, ref1, ref2
Quisling, Vidkun, ref1
Race Relations Act (1965), ref1
racial attitudes and issues: skin colour, ref1; education, ref1; Notting Hill riots, ref1; Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech, ref1; ‘sus’ laws, ref1; Bristol riots (1980), ref1; Brixton riots (1981), ref1; Stephen Lawrence case, ref1, ref2
Radcliffe, Cyril, ref1
radio (wireless): dance music, ref1; BBC licence fee, ref1; Baldwin’s broadcasts, ref1; electric sockets for sets, ref1; cost of sets, ref1; class listening styles, ref1; life on the dole, ref1; death of George V, ref1; Edward VIII’s farewell broadcast, ref1; news of coming war, ref1, ref2; Chamberlain’s broadcast, ref1; comedy, ref1, ref2; news of German surrender, ref1; banning Sex Pistols, ref1
railways: suburban links, ref1; commuting, ref1; strike averted, ref1; carrying livestock, ref1; strikes, ref1, ref2, ref3; nationalization proposal, ref1; privatization, ref1
Ramsay, Peggy, ref1
Ramsey, Alf, ref1
rationing: suggested (1915), ref1; food (1917–19), ref1, ref2; start of (1940), ref1; food (1940–54), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; healthy diet, ref1, ref2; grain, ref1; bread (1946), ref1; responses to, ref1; clothes, ref1; fat, ref1; meat rationing ended (1954), ref1
Rattigan, Terence, ref1, ref2
Ravenhill, Mark: Shopping and F**king, ref1
Reading, Lady, ref1
Reagan, Ronald: Anglo-Irish Agreement role, ref1; appearance and character, ref1, ref2; relationship with Thatcher, ref1, ref2; SDI (‘Star Wars’), ref1; Delors’s view of, ref1; relationship with Gorbachev, ref1; special relationship, ref1