History of England 1-6

Baldwin, Stanley: on People’s Budget, ref1; background, ref1, ref2; career, ref1; on new MPs (1918), ref1; on Lloyd George, ref1, ref2, ref3; on 1922 election, ref1; chancellor, ref1; Conservative leadership, ref1, ref2; conversion to protectionism, ref1, ref2; view of Labour minority government, ref1; election campaign (1924), ref1; election victory (1924), ref1; appearance and character, ref1, ref2, ref3; vision of a harmonious England, ref1; on class consciousness, ref1; relationship with son, ref1; opinion of Churchill, ref1; broadcasts, ref1; miners’ strike intervention, ref1; general strike (1926), ref1, ref2; housing policy, ref1; cultivating suburban lower middle class, ref1, ref2; general election campaign (1929), ref1; election results (1929), ref1, ref2; in National Government, ref1, ref2; view of new industries, ref1; view of continental affairs, ref1, ref2; policy towards League of Nations, ref1, ref2; opinion of Hitler, ref1; old age, ref1, ref2; military spending, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; fear of another war, ref1; response to remilitarization of Rhineland, ref1; threatens to resign over Edward VIII’s marriage, ref1, ref2; retirement, ref1; on dangers of bombing, ref1

Balfour, Arthur James: on death of Victoria, ref1; A Defence of Philosophic Doubt, ref1; character, ref1, ref2; administration, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; protectionism issue, ref1, ref2; defeat at 1906 election, ref1; leadership, ref1; relationship with C-B, ref1; People’s Budget crisis, ref1; speeding offences, ref1; view of suffragettes, ref1; resignation of leadership, ref1; in coalition cabinet, ref1, ref2; view of conscription, ref1; Ulster home-rule plan, ref1; foreign secretary, ref1, ref2; view of Lloyd George, ref1

Bane, Mary, ref1

Bank of England: gold reserves, ref1, ref2; using gold reserves to support sterling, ref1; ‘Socialization of Industries’, ref1; supporting sterling, ref1, ref2; unable to support sterling, ref1; setting exchange rates, ref1

Barber, Tony, ref1

Battle, John, ref1

Beatles: background, ref1, ref2; in Hamburg, ref1; recordings, ref1; Beatlemania, ref1; relationship with Stones, ref1; MBEs, ref1, ref2; US and Philippines tour, ref1; writing, ref1; Sgt. Pepper, ref1; press attitude to, ref1; status, ref1

Beaverbrook, Lord (Max Aitken): relationship with Lloyd George, ref1; campaign to replace Baldwin, ref1; support for Baldwin, ref1; support for Edward VIII, ref1

Beckett, Margaret, ref1

Belfast parliament, ref1, ref2

Belgium: African colonies, ref1; German invasion (1914), ref1; BEF, ref1; German invasion (1940), ref1, ref2; abdication of king, ref1

Belgrade, bombing, ref1

Bell, Julian, ref1, ref2

Benn, Tony: on technology, ref1; hostility to European project, ref1, ref2; economic views, ref1, ref2; on Belgrano sinking, ref1; support for miners, ref1

Bennett, Alan, ref1

Bennett, Arnold, ref1, ref2

Bentine, Michael, ref1

Berlin Wall, fall (1989), ref1

Berry, Chuck, ref1

Betjeman, John, ref1

Bevan, Aneurin: appearance and character, ref1; minister of health and housing, ref1; on free medical care, ref1; memories of childhood, ref1; establishing NHS, ref1; resignation over prescription charges, ref1; vision of welfare state, ref1; relationship with Foot, ref1, ref2; nuclear policy, ref1

Beveridge, Sir William, ref1, ref2

Bevin, Ernest, ref1, ref2

Beyond the Fringe (stage revue), ref1, ref2

Biba, ref1

Bicknell, Dr Franklin, ref1

bicycles, ref1, ref2

Big Issue, ref1

Black and Tans, ref1

Black Wednesday (1992), ref1, ref2, ref3

Blair, Tony: career, ref1; leadership election (1994), ref1; ‘tough on crime’, ref1; policy on right to protest, ref1; children’s schooling, ref1; election (1997), ref1; appearance and character, ref1, ref2, ref3; opt-in to Social Chapter, ref1; Good Friday Agreement, ref1; reputation for trustworthiness, ref1

Blake, Peter: Self-Portrait with Badges, ref1

Blake, William, ref1

Bloomsbury Group, ref1

Blunden, Edmund, ref1, ref2

Boer War, Second (1899–1902), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Boers: concentration camps, ref1; self-government, ref1

Bondfield, Margaret, ref1

Boothroyd, Betty, ref1

Borisov, German massacre of Jews, ref1

Bosnian civil war, ref1

Bottomley, Horatio, ref1

Bow, Clara, ref1

Boy Scout Movement, ref1, ref2, ref3

Bridgewater Three, ref1

Brierley, Walter: Means-Test Man, ref1

bright young things, ref1, ref2

Brighton, Grand Hotel bombing (1984), ref1

Bristol: docks bombed, ref1; riots (1980), ref1