History of England 1-6

Britain: ‘civilizing mission’, ref1, ref2; population, ref1; immigration, ref1; imports, ref1; ‘Greater Britain’ plan, ref1, ref2; threat from Germany, ref1, ref2; car accidents, ref1; Versailles Treaty, ref1; industrial activity, ref1; naval agreement with Germany, ref1; war with Germany (1939), ref1; response to invasion of Poland, ref1; German air attacks (1940), ref1; Hitler’s invasion plans, ref1; Battle of (1940), ref1; VE day, ref1; welfare legislation, ref1; consuming society, ref1; hydrogen bomb, ref1; ‘special relationship’ with US, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; EEC negotiations, ref1, ref2, ref3; devaluation (1967), ref1; sovereignty, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; joins EEC, ref1; EEC referendum (1975), ref1; Falklands war (1982), ref1; ERM membership, ref1, ref2; death of Diana, Princess of Wales, ref1

British Aerospace, ref1

British Boundary Commission (1925), ref1

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), ref1, ref2, ref3

British Empire Exhibition (1924–25), ref1

British Expeditionary Force (BEF): assembled (1914), ref1; retreat (1940), ref1, ref2; Dunkirk rescue, ref1

British Gas Corporation, ref1

British Gazette, ref1

British Medical Association (BMA), ref1

British National Party, ref1

British Rail, ref1

British Social Attitudes, ref1

British Steel, ref1

British Union of Fascists (BUF), ref1

Brittain, Vera, ref1

Brown, George: view of Common Market, ref1; voluntary incomes policy, ref1; character, ref1; loses seat (1970), ref1

Brown, Gordon, ref1, ref2

Bryson, Bill, ref1

BSE crisis, ref1

Buchenwald survivor, ref1

Bulganin, Nikolai, ref1

Bulgaria, ref1, ref2

Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange, ref1, ref2

Burgess, Guy, ref1

Burns, John, ref1, ref2

Burton, Richard, ref1

buses, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Bush, George, ref1, ref2

Bush, George W., ref1

Butler, R. A. (Rab), ref1, ref2, ref3

Butlin, Billy, ref1

Caine, Michael, ref1, ref2, ref3

Calder Hall nuclear power station, ref1, ref2

Callaghan, James: home secretary, ref1; opposition to ‘In Place of Strife’, ref1; sends troops to Northern Ireland, ref1; indifference to referendum, ref1; Wilson’s resignation, ref1, ref2; Labour leadership, ref1; IMF negotiations, ref1; tribute to Wilson, ref1; economic policy, ref1; on disruption of society, ref1; monarchist, ref1; pay policy, ref1; ‘Winter of Discontent’, ref1; appearance, ref1; message for unions, ref1

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), ref1

Campbell, Alastair, ref1, ref2

Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry (C-B): election victory (1906), ref1, ref2, ref3; appearance and character, ref1; relationship with Balfour, ref1; relationship with Lloyd George, ref1, ref2; death, ref1

Canada, industry, ref1

cannabis, ref1, ref2

capital punishment, ref1, ref2

Carlyle, Thomas, ref1

Carr, Robert, ref1

Carson, Edward: Ulster Unionist leadership, ref1; relationship with Law, ref1, ref2; Irish Home Rule issue, ref1; coalition cabinet, ref1; response to Easter Rising executions, ref1; Irish Home Rule plan, ref1; supports Lloyd George, ref1; at Admiralty, ref1; threatens civil war, ref1

Cash, Sir Bill, ref1

Castle, Barbara, ref1, ref2

Cat and Mouse Act, ref1

Central Electricity Board, ref1

Central LandOwners Association, ref1

Central Powers, ref1

Chalmers Watson, Mona, ref1

Chamberlain, Austen: on strikes (1911), ref1; on Ireland, ref1; in coalition cabinet, ref1; chancellor, ref1; party leader, ref1, ref2; Law’s government, ref1; foreign secretary, ref1; gloom, ref1

Chamberlain, Joseph: background and character, ref1, ref2, ref3; opposition to Irish Home Rule, ref1, ref2; plan for the empire, ref1, ref2; Boer War policy, ref1; Tariff Reform programme, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; US relationship, ref1; influence, ref1, ref2, ref3; retirement, ref1

Chamberlain, Neville: elected (1918), ref1; career, ref1, ref2; view of Labour minority government, ref1; minister of health, ref1; welfare proposals, ref1; appearance and character, ref1, ref2; opinion of Churchill, ref1; general strike (1926), ref1; election results (1929), ref1; in National Government, ref1; chancellor, ref1, ref2, ref3; protectionist measures, ref1; on unemployment, ref1; view of continental affairs, ref1, ref2; opinion of Hitler, ref1; reduces defence spending, ref1; view of Edward VIII, ref1; advice to Edward VIII, ref1; premiership, ref1; approach to European diplomacy, ref1; appeasement policy, ref1, ref2; relationship with Mussolini, ref1, ref2; protest on Germany’s incorporation of Austria, ref1; Czechoslovakia policy, ref1; discussions with Hitler, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; broadcast to the nation, ref1; Munich Agreement, ref1; preparations for war, ref1; recognition of Franco’s government, ref1; Rome talks, ref1; pledges support for Poland, ref1; negotiations on Danzig, ref1; ultimatum to Germany, ref1; Commons assault on, ref1; resignation, ref1, ref2

Chanel, Coco, ref1

Channel Islands, German occupation, ref1

Channel Tunnel, ref1

Channon, Henry ‘Chips’, ref1

Chaplin, Charlie, ref1, ref2; Modern Times, ref1

Charles, Prince, ref1, ref2

chemical industry, ref1

Chernenko, Konstantin, ref1