free trade, ref1, ref2; see also Tariff Reform
French, Sir John, ref1
Freud, Sigmund, ref1
Frost, David, ref1
Fry, Christopher, ref1
Gaitskell, Hugh: appearance and character, ref1; minister for fuel and power, ref1; introduction of prescription charges, ref1; on anti-Americanism, ref1; view of European Community, ref1; Profumo affair, ref1; nuclear policy, ref1
Galtieri, General Leopoldo, ref1, ref2
Gandhi, Mahatma, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Garbo, Greta, ref1
Gardner, Joy, ref1
Gardner, Llew, ref1
gas: lighting, ref1; poison, ref1, ref2, ref3; masks, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; supply, ref1; Russian, ref1, ref2
Geldof, Bob, ref1
General Belgrano, ARA, ref1
general elections: (1895), ref1; (1900; ‘khaki election’), ref1, ref2; (1906), ref1, ref2, ref3; (January 1910), ref1; (December 1910), ref1, ref2, ref3; (1918), ref1, ref2; (1922), ref1; (1923), ref1; (1924), ref1, ref2, ref3; (1929), ref1; (1931), ref1; (1935), ref1; (1945), ref1; (1950), ref1; (1951), ref1; (1955), ref1; (1959), ref1; (1964), ref1; (1966), ref1; (1970), ref1; (February 1974), ref1, ref2; (October 1974), ref1, ref2; (1979), ref1, ref2; (1983), ref1, ref2; (1987), ref1, ref2, ref3; (1992), ref1; (1997), ref1
General Omnibus Company, ref1
generations, conflict between, ref1
Geneva Protocol (1925), ref1
gentry, landed, ref1, ref2, ref3
George, Eddie, ref1
George V, King: accession, ref1, ref2; Lords reforms, ref1, ref2; appearance and character, ref1; opinion of Lloyd George, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; response to strikes (1910–11), ref1; coronation, ref1; view of suffragettes, ref1; Irish veto question, ref1; anti-German, ref1; changes name of royal family, ref1; fear of revolution, ref1; concern for Ireland, ref1, ref2; opens Belfast parliament (1921), ref1; concerned about sale of peerages and knighthoods, ref1; opinion of MacDonald, ref1, ref2, ref3; advice to Baldwin, ref1; first broadcast, ref1; sympathy for miners, ref1; formation of National Government, ref1; fear of another war, ref1; death, ref1
George VI, King: accession, ref1; appearance and character, ref1; naval career, ref1; political views, ref1; visit to Festival of Britain, ref1; death, ref1
Germany: industry and technology, ref1, ref2; expansion of armed forces, ref1, ref2, ref3; Morocco naval incident, ref1; African colonies, ref1; declares war on France, ref1, ref2, invades Belgium, ref1; Mons victory, ref1; army’s treatment of civilians, ref1; naval strategy, ref1, ref2, ref3; peace treaty with Russia, ref1, ref2; abdication of Kaiser, ref1; Republic, ref1; Armistice, ref1; colonies divided between Allies, ref1; reparations, ref1, ref2; terms of Versailles Treaty, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; communist movement, ref1, ref2; Weimar Republic, ref1; Nazism, ref1; withdrawal from League of Nations, ref1, ref2; naval agreement with Britain, ref1; conscription reintroduced, ref1; expansion of air force, ref1; Rhineland remilitarized, ref1; Anti-Comintern Pact, ref1; support for Franco, ref1; massacre of Jews (Kristallnacht), ref1; Pact of Steel with Italy, ref1; annexation of Czechia, ref1; Nazi–Soviet Pact (1939), ref1, ref2; invasion of Poland (1939), ref1; invasion of Belgium and France, ref1; invasion of Greece, ref1; invasion of Russia (1941), ref1; war with US, ref1; death camps, ref1; Allied air raids, ref1; Red Army advance on Berlin, ref1; trade agreement with France, ref1; post-war economic miracle, ref1; EEC role, ref1; IMF role, ref1; unification, ref1; interest rates, ref1; Bundesbank, ref1, ref2
Gerry and the Pacemakers, ref1
Ghana, independence, ref1, ref2
Gibraltar, IRA members shot (1988), ref1
Gielgud, John, ref1
Gladstone, William Ewart: Irish policy, ref1, ref2, ref3; Liberal party, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Goebbels, Joseph, ref1
gold standard: return to, ref1, ref2; maintaining, ref1; leaving, ref1, ref2
Gold Standard Act (1925), ref1
Goldsmith, James, ref1, ref2
Gollancz, Victor, ref1
Good Friday Agreement (1998), ref1, ref2
Goons, the, ref1, ref2, ref3
Goose Green, Battle of (1982), ref1
Gorbachev, Mikhail, ref1, ref2
Göring, Hermann, ref1, ref2, ref3
Gormley, Joe, ref1, ref2
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), ref1
Government of India Acts: (1919), ref1; (1935), ref1
Government of Ireland Act (1920), ref1, ref2
Gow, Ian, ref1
Graham, Victoria, ref1
gramophones, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Grange Hill (TV series), ref1
Greece: invasions (1941), ref1
Greenham Common, women’s camp, ref1
Greenwood, Arthur, ref1
Greenwood, Walter: Love on the Dole, ref1
Grey, Sir Edward: pro-imperialist, ref1; naval policy, ref1; anti-German, ref1; attitude to war, ref1, ref2
Griffiths, Roy, ref1
Griffiths Report (1983), ref1
Grossmith, George and Weedon: The Diary of a Nobody, ref1
Guardian, ref1, ref2
Guernica, bombing, ref1
Gulf War (1990–91), ref1
Gulf War Syndrome, ref1
gun ownership, ref1
Hague, William, ref1
Haig, Douglas, ref1, ref2
Haley, Bill, ref1, ref2
Halifax, Lord, ref1, ref2, ref3
Halliwell, Kenneth, ref1
Hamilton, Neil, ref1
Hampshire, HMS, ref1
Hanley, Jeremy, ref1
Hardie, Keir, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4