History of England 1-6

Labour party: origins, ref1; Lib–Lab pact (1903), ref1; MPs (1906), ref1; support for war declaration, ref1; coalition cabinet, ref1, ref2; supporters, ref1; membership, ref1; radical policy proposals, ref1; constitution (1918), ref1; socialism, ref1; main opposition party, ref1, ref2; MPs, ref1; leadership, ref1; free-trade policy, ref1; front bench, ref1; forms minority government (1923), ref1; relationship with Soviet Russia, ref1; response to National Government, ref1; response to Snowden’s budget, ref1; attitude to hunger marches, ref1; opposition to Nazis, ref1; view of League of Nations, ref1; response to Spanish civil war, ref1; joining wartime coalition, ref1; manifesto (1950), ref1; European policy, ref1, ref2, ref3; NEC rejects ‘In Place of Strife’, ref1; Social Contract, ref1, ref2, ref3; SDP split, ref1; death of John Smith, ref1; leadership election (1994), ref1; New Labour, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Labour Representation Committee (LRC), ref1

laissez-faire economics: Conservative position, ref1; Victorian values, ref1, ref2; debate (1902), ref1; Liberal position, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; Lloyd George’s programme, ref1

Lamont, Norman, ref1, ref2

land: ownership, ref1; rents, ref1; taxation, ref1, ref2

Lansbury, George, ref1, ref2

Law, Andrew Bonar: parliamentary style, ref1; background and character, ref1; Conservative leadership, ref1; Irish policy, ref1; war policy, ref1, ref2; attack on government’s conduct of war, ref1; coalition cabinet, ref1; opinion of Churchill, ref1; view of conscription, ref1; Irish Home Rule plan, ref1; declines to form government, ref1; career, ref1; general election (1918), ref1; Lord Privy Seal and Commons leader, ref1; retirement, ref1, ref2; election victory (1922), ref1

Lawrence, Stephen, ref1, ref2

Lawson, Nigel: on Thatcher, ref1, ref2; on privatization, ref1; ERM issue, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; resignation, ref1, ref2; Howe’s speech, ref1

Le Corbusier, ref1

League of Nations: established, ref1; US not a member, ref1; British policy, ref1, ref2; German policy, ref1; arbitration role, ref1, ref2; critics of, ref1; British public support for, ref1, ref2, ref3; Manchurian incident, ref1; Stresa declaration (1935), ref1; Italian invasion of Abyssinia, ref1, ref2, ref3; imposes sanction on Italy, ref1, ref2, ref3; Baldwin’s policy, ref1, ref2; recognizes Italian Abyssinia, ref1; discredited, ref1, ref2; British protests at government’s betrayal, ref1; Spanish civil war, ref1; obsolete, ref1; Germany’s occupation of Austria, ref1

League of St George, ref1

Left Book Club, ref1, ref2

Left News, ref1

leisure activities, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Lenin, ref1

Lennon, John, ref1, ref2, ref3

Levin, Bernard, ref1

Lewis, C. S., ref1

Liberal Democrats: by-election gain, ref1; defection to, ref1; leadership, ref1, ref2, ref3; name, ref1

Liberal party: split over Irish Home Rule, ref1, ref2; policies, ref1; effects of Labour emergence, ref1; Lib–Lab pact (1903), ref1; social legislation, ref1; radical wing, ref1; minority government, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; Irish issues (1914), ref1; declaration of war, ref1; ‘shells scandal’, ref1; wartime coalition (1915), ref1; in opposition (1916), ref1; fatal split, ref1, ref2; post-war, ref1; free-trade policy, ref1; split three ways, ref1; extinction, ref1; name, ref1

Liberal Unionist party: coalition with Conservatives, ref1, ref2, ref3

literature: popular reading, ref1; ‘dole literature’, ref1; earnestness and ideology, ref1; stylistic experimentation, ref1; ‘angry young men’, ref1; A Clockwork Orange, ref1, ref2; Harry Potter, ref1

Live Aid concert, ref1

Liverpool: riots (1911), ref1; cinemas, ref1; the ‘pools’, ref1; living below the poverty line, ref1; slums, ref1; evacuees, ref1; docks bombed, ref1; NHS rejected by doctors, ref1; Garston ‘blood baths’, ref1; slum clearance, ref1; football fans, ref1; Cavern Club, ref1, ref2; Beatles, ref1; influence on Foot, ref1; invigoration, ref1

Livingstone, Ken, ref1, ref2

Lloyd, Selwyn, ref1