theatre: Look Back in Anger, ref1; Joe Orton’s plays, ref1; Pinter’s plays, ref1; Stoppard’s plays, ref1; Shaffer’s plays, ref1; Blasted scandal, ref1; Nineties resurgence, ref1
think tanks, ref1
Thompson, E. P., ref1
Thompson, F. M. L., ref1
Thorpe, Jeremy, ref1, ref2
Till Death Us Do Part (TV series), ref1, ref2
Times, The: on death of Victoria, ref1; on wealth redistribution, ref1; supports Tariff Reform, ref1; on motor cars, ref1; on strikes, ref1; on Allied retreat, ref1; munitions campaign, ref1; content, ref1; on 1929, ref2; on death of George V, ref1; editors, ref1, ref2; on riots, ref1; serializes Cook memoir, ref1
Tirpitz, Admiral, ref1
Tiso, Jozef, ref1
Titmuss, Richard L., ref1
Tolkien, J. R. R., ref1, ref2; The Lord of the Rings, ref1
Town Planning Act (1909), ref1
Townshend, Pete, ref1
Toynbee, Arnold, ref1
Trade Boards Bill, ref1
Trade Disputes Acts: (1906), ref1; (1966), ref1
Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act (1927), ref1, ref2
trade unions: flourishing, ref1; membership, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; Labour party, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; legislation, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; strikes (1910–14), ref1; status of women, ref1, ref2; wartime concessions, ref1; general strike (1926), ref1; political levy abolished, ref1; working hours, ref1; campaign for paid holidays, ref1; ‘In Place of Strife’ (1969), ref1, ref2; Heath’s policies, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; Industrial Relations Act (1971), ref1, ref2; Social Contract, ref1, ref2, ref3; ‘free collective bargaining’ for wages, ref1; print unions, ref1; ‘Winter of Discontent’ (1978–9), ref1; English tradition, ref1; rivalry between, ref1; Thatcher’s policies, ref1, ref2; Blair’s policies, ref1
Trades Union Congress (TUC): miners’ strike (1925–6), ref1; general strike (1926), ref1; Heath’s view of, ref1; rejects Industrial Relations Bill, ref1; mining industry issues, ref1, ref2; Social Contract, ref1; Delors speech (1988), ref1; manufacturing closures, ref1
transport: commuting, ref1, ref2; trams, ref1, ref2, ref3; buses, ref1, ref2, ref3; trains, ref1, ref2, ref3; motor cars, ref1, ref2; bicycles, ref1, ref2; speeding, ref1; electric trolley buses, ref1
Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU), ref1, ref2, ref3
Tredegar Medical Aid Society, ref1, ref2
Tribune, ref1
Trimble, David, ref1
Triple Alliance, ref1, ref2, ref3
Turing, Alan, ref1
Twiggy (Lesley Hornby), ref1, ref2
2i club, The, ref1
U-boats, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Ugandan Asians: passports, ref1; expelled by Idi Amin, ref1; arrival in Britain, ref1
UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party), ref1
Ukraine: NKVD killings, ref1; famine, ref1
Ulster: four Protestant-majority counties, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; six counties, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Ulster Unionist Council, ref1
Ulster Unionists: leader, ref1; relationship with Conservative party, ref1, ref2; opposition to Irish Home Rule, ref1, ref2; importing arms, ref1, ref2; living under Dublin administration, ref1; recognize Belfast parliament, ref1; remaining in UK as ‘Northern Ireland’, ref1; Good Friday Agreement (1998), ref1
Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), ref1, ref2
Ultra code, ref1
Unemployed Workmen Act (1903), ref1
unemployment: fear of, ref1; consequences of, ref1, ref2; blamed on women, ref1; after WWI, ref1; Twenties, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; benefits, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; Thirties, ref1, ref2; means test, ref1; violence, ref1; suicides, ref1; in Jarrow, ref1; in 1980, ref2; in black communities, ref1; predictions (1988), ref1
Unemployment Act (1934), ref1
Unionist Alliance, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Unionists: name, ref1, ref2; Irish Home Rule Bill, ref1, ref2; leadership, ref1; support for declaration of war, ref1; wartime coalition, ref1, ref2; waning support for war (1917), ref1; blaming women for unemployment, ref1; peacetime coalition, ref1, ref2; election (1918), ref1, ref2; Versailles Treaty, ref1; austerity programme, ref1; Irish nationalism concern, ref1; response to Anglo-Irish treaty, ref1
United States: coal and iron production, ref1; arms race, ref1; UK alliance, ref1, ref2; declares war on Germany, ref1; Wilson’s peace settlement plan, ref1, ref2; isolation, ref1; technological revolution, ref1; Wall Street crash (1929), ref1; naval treaty (1922), ref1; Pearl Harbor, ref1; war with Germany, ref1; withdrawal of Lend-Lease, ref1; Suez crisis, ref1; special relationship, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; support for Britain’s EEC membership, ref1; funds for IRA, ref1
University Challenge (TV quiz), ref1
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, ref1
Ure, Midge, ref1
V1s and V2s, ref1
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, ref1, ref2
Versailles: peace conference, ref1, ref2; Treaty (1919), ref1, ref2, ref3
Victoria, Queen, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Vietnam War, ref1, ref2
villages, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
wages: agricultural labourers, ref1; working classes, ref1; strikes, ref1, ref2; rise (WWI), ref1, ref2; miners (1925), ref1, ref2; public-sector cuts (1931), ref1; purchasing power, ref1; post-war, ref1; miners (1972), ref1; Seventies, ref1
Waigel, Theodor, ref1, ref2
Wain, John: Hurry On Down, ref1
Wakeham, John, ref1
Wales: evacuees, ref1; devolution, ref1, ref2
Wall Street crash (1929), ref1
Walters, Sir Alan, ref1
Ward, Stephen, ref1
Waterhouse, Keith, ref1
Waters, Susan, ref1
Watkinson, Harold, ref1
Watson, James, ref1
Waugh, Alec, ref1
Waugh, Evelyn: Vile Bodies, ref1, ref2, ref3; on left-wing youth, ref1
Waymouth, Nigel, ref1
Webb, Beatrice, ref1, ref2
Webb, Sidney, ref1, ref2
welfare state: foundations, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; cost, ref1; approach to education, ref1; expansion, ref1, ref2; Heath’s policy, ref1
Weller, Irene, ref1
Wells, H. G.: on Queen Victoria, ref1; Mr Britling Sees it Through, ref1; influence, ref1
Wembley Stadium, ref1
West, Fred and Rosemary, ref1
West, Rebecca, ref1
Western Front: casualties, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; BEF, ref1; trench warfare, ref1, ref2, ref3; arrival of US troops, ref1; post-war effects of experiences, ref1
Wham!, ref1
White, T. H.: The Once and Future King, ref1
White Wolves, ref1
Whitehouse, Mary, ref1
Whitelaw, William ‘Willie’: on miners’ strike, ref1; character, ref1; Sunningdale Agreement, ref1; dealing with second miners’ strike, ref1; European policy, ref1; advice to Heath, ref1; party leadership candidacy, ref1; illness, ref1
Who, the, ref1, ref2
Wilberforce report (1972), ref1