History of England 1-6

Chesterton, G. K., ref1

Children Act (1908), ref1

Children’s Salvage Group, ref1

Choltitz, General von, ref1

Christie, Agatha, ref1

Church of England, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Churchill, Lord Randolph, ref1, ref2, ref3

Churchill, Winston: on Edward VII, ref1; on Joseph Chamberlain, ref1, ref2; on Asquith, ref1; Board of Trade appointment, ref1, ref2; background, character and career, ref1; relationship with Lloyd George, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; ‘People’s Budget’ crisis, ref1; suggests abolition of Lords, ref1; home secretary, ref1, ref2; response to strikes (1910–11), ref1, ref2; response to suffragettes, ref1; on Conservative Irish policy, ref1; on outbreak of WWI, ref1; First Lord of the Admiralty, ref1, ref2; Dardanelles strategy, ref1, ref2; demoted, ref1; Law’s view of, ref1; on Lloyd George seizing power, ref1; minister of munitions, ref1; coalition Liberal position, ref1; rejoins Conservative party, ref1; chancellor, ref1; return to gold standard, ref1, ref2; reduces supertax, ref1; increases public spending, ref1; opinion of Chamberlain, ref1; actions during general strike (1926), ref1, ref2; tax relief for mortgage payments, ref1; election results (1929), ref1; defence spending, ref1; opinion of Mussolini, ref1, ref2; opinion of Nazism, ref1; opinion of Hitler, ref1; opinion of Baldwin, ref1; views on India, ref1; opinion of Gandhi, ref1; isolated in Commons, ref1; response to remilitarization of Rhineland, ref1; on abdication crisis, ref1; warns Chamberlain about Hitler, ref1; concern about Chamberlain’s advisers, ref1; view of appeasement policy, ref1; on Czechoslovakia, ref1; on Munich Agreement, ref1; on Russian involvement, ref1; prime minister and minister for defence, ref1, ref2; forms coalition war cabinet (1940), ref1; ‘blood, toil, tears and sweat’ speech, ref1; on German advance, ref1, ref2; election campaign (1945), ref1, ref2; on nationalization, ref1; retirement, ref1; on Suez crisis, ref1; on hydrogen bomb, ref1

cigarettes, ref1, ref2

cinema, ref1, ref2, ref3; Rock Around the Clock, ref1; The Italian Job, ref1; Carry On series, ref1

Citizen’s Charter, ref1

City of London, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Civil Rights Bill, ref1

civil service: open competition for places, ref1; ‘marriage bar’, ref1; preparations for war, ref1; enlargement, ref1

Clark, Alan, ref1

Clarke, Kenneth, ref1

class (social): divisions, ref1, ref2; see also aristocracy; middle class; working class

Clean Air Act (1955), ref1

Clegg, Lee, ref1

Clinton, Bill, ref1

clothes: women’s, ref1, ref2, ref3; flappers, ref1; bright young men, ref1; youth in the Thirties, ref1; Teddy boys, ref1; Mods, ref1; Sixties fashion, ref1, ref2

Clynes, John, ref1, ref2

coal: industry, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; WWI, ref1; strikes, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; working conditions, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; nationalization of royalties, ref1; fall in price, ref1; unemployment, ref1; fall in production, ref1; stocks, ref1, ref2, ref3; pit closures, ref1, ref2; National Coal Board, ref1, ref2, ref3

Coal Act (1938), ref1

Coal Mines Act (1930), ref1

cocaine, ref1, ref2, ref3

coffee bars, ref1, ref2

Cold War, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Collins, Michael, ref1, ref2

Combat ref1, ref2

Committee of Imperial Defence, ref1

Common Agricultural Policy, ref1

Common Fisheries Policy, ref1, ref2

Common Market see European Economic Community

Commons, House of: unpaid MPs, ref1; salary for MPs, ref1; cash for questions, ref1, ref2; MPs’ declaration of benefits, ref1; Sinn Féin MPs refuse seats, ref1

Commonwealth: troops, ref1; queen’s title, ref1; role in Britain’s European policy, ref1, ref2; smaller nations, ref1; South Africa withdrawal, ref1; immigration, ref1; relationship with Britain, ref1

Communist party, British, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

community charge (poll tax), ref1, ref2, ref3

Concorde supersonic aeroplane, ref1

Condon, Sir Paul, ref1

Conservative party: coalition with Liberal Unionists, ref1, ref2; policies, ref1, ref2; ‘values’, ref1; protectionism issue, ref1; ‘onenation’ Toryism, ref1, ref2, ref3; ‘die-hards’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; name, ref1, ref2; Irish policy, ref1; support for war declaration, ref1; attacks on conduct of war, ref1; new men with new ideas, ref1; attitude to central government, ref1; electoral base, ref1; National Government, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; view of disarmament, ref1; views of Hitler, ref1; view of League of Nations, ref1; opposition to NHS, ref1; by-election defeats (1962), ref1; leadership election (1979), ref1; ‘Back to Basics’ campaign, ref1, ref2; ‘sexual shenanigans’, ref1, ref2; ‘cash for questions’, ref1, ref2, ref3; by-election defeats, ref1, ref2, ref3; defections, ref1; loss of majority, ref1; Hague leadership, ref1

Cook, Peter, ref1, ref2

Cook, Robin, ref1, ref2, ref3

Cooper, Tommy, ref1

Corbyn, Jeremy, ref1

cotton industry: free-trade issues, ref1; magnates, ref1; international competition, ref1; strikes, ref1; decline, ref1; unemployment, ref1; mills in 1963, ref2

Council of Ireland, ref1

Country Life, ref1