History of England 1-6

Major, John: chancellor, ref1, ref2; ERM entry, ref1, ref2, ref3; leadership election victory, ref1; character, ref1; background and career, ref1; prime minister, ref1; cabinet, ref1; Gulf war, ref1; Maastricht Treaty, ref1, ref2, ref3; on inflation, ref1; currency crisis (1992), ref1; ‘Back to Basics’ speech (1993), ref1, ref2, ref3; privatization of railways, ref1; dealing with Eurosceptics, ref1; vetoes Dehaene’s presidency, ref1; cabinet reshuffle, ref1; ‘anti-yob culture’ speech, ref1; on ERM, ref1; US relations, ref1; leadership resignation and re-election (1995), ref1; Vance–Owen Bosnian peace plan, ref1; resignation as Conservative leader, ref1

Malta: siege broken, ref1

Manchester: suburbs, ref1; transport, ref1; American slang, ref1; slums, ref1; docks bombed, ref1; NHS inauguration, ref1; in 1960s, ref1; education, ref1; ‘Darkness at Noon’, ref1; IRA bombing (1996), ref1

Manchester Guardian, ref1, ref2

Manchuria, Japanese invasion (1931), ref1

Mandelson, Peter, ref1

manufacturing: decline, ref1, ref2; boom after WWI, ref1; mass production, ref1; new industrial revolution, ref1; after crash (1929), ref1; decline (1996), ref1

Marcos, Ferdinand, ref1

Marne, Battle of the (1914), ref1

Marshall, T. H., ref1

Martin, George, ref1

Marx, Karl, ref1, ref2

Mass Observation, ref1

Masterman, Charles, ref1, ref2

Matteotti, Giacomo, ref1

Maudling, Reginald, ref1, ref2

Maxse, Leo, ref1

MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club), ref1

MDMA (‘ecstasy’), ref1

Mellor, David, ref1

Mental Deficiency Act (1913), ref1

Merchant, Piers, ref1

Metaxas, Ioannis, ref1

Meyer, Sir Anthony, ref1

Meyrick, Kate, ref1

Michael, George, ref1

middle class: suburban life, ref1; move to the country, ref1; view of working classes, ref1; Chamberlain’s appeal to, ref1; voting patterns, ref1, ref2; establishment views, ref1; taxation, ref1; MPs, ref1; powerful, ref1; peers, ref1; social mobility, ref1; women, ref1, ref2, ref3; Law’s background, ref1; flappers, ref1; extra vote, ref1; Labour’s appeal to, ref1, ref2; Labour MPs, ref1, ref2; lifestyle, ref1; class consciousness, ref1; homes, ref1; Conservative appeal to suburban lower middle class, ref1, ref2; Conservative voters, ref1, ref2; wireless listening, ref1; cinema going, ref1; hiking, ref1; view of means test, ref1; view of unemployment, ref1; involvement in Spanish civil war, ref1; BMA, ref1; in theatre and literature, ref1; Mods, ref1

Militant Tendency, ref1

Military Service Bill (1916), ref1

Millar, Ronald, ref1

Millennium Dome, ref1, ref2

Miller, Jonathan, ref1, ref2

Milligan, Spike, ref1

Mills, Percy, ref1

Mills & Boon, ref1

Mitterrand, François, ref1

Mods, ref1, ref2

Mons, Battle of (1914), ref1

Monster Raving Loony Party, ref1

Montgomery, Bernard, ref1

Moonies, ref1

Moore, Bobby, ref1

Moore, Dudley, ref1

Moorhouse, Geoffrey: The Other England, ref1, ref2; on Beatles, ref1

Moran, Lord, ref1

Morgan, Kenneth O., ref1

Morgan, Piers, ref1

Morley, John, ref1

Mormons, ref1

Morning Post, ref1, ref2

Morrison, Herbert, ref1

Mosley, Oswald, ref1, ref2

Motor Car Act (1903), ref1, ref2

motor cars, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

motorways, ref1, ref2

Mountbatten, Lord, ref1

Muggeridge, Malcolm: on unemployment research, ref1; on Macmillan, ref1; on state of England, ref1

Munich Agreement (1938), ref1, ref2, ref3

Murray, Len, ref1

Murray-Leslie, Dr R., ref1

music: rock ’n’ roll, ref1; guitars, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; skiffle, ref1; Sixties, ref1, ref2; British chart-toppers, ref1; New Romantics, ref1; synthesizers, ref1; ‘Acid house’, ref1; ‘Second Summer of Love’ (1988), ref1; raves, ref1

Muslim League, ref1

Mussolini, Benito: rise to power, ref1, ref2; approach to economics, ref1; Stresa declaration (1935), ref1, ref2; response to sanctions, ref1; invasion of Abyssinia (1935), ref1, ref2; relationship with Hitler, ref1, ref2, ref3; courted by British government, ref1; opinion of British government, ref1; Chamberlain’s policy toward, ref1, ref2, ref3; death, ref1

Nagasaki, atomic bombing, ref1

Nairn, Ian, ref1

Narvik, Battle of (1940), ref1

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, ref1

National Book Drive, ref1

National Coal Board, ref1, ref2, ref3

National Congress, India, ref1, ref2, ref3

National Farmers’ Union, ref1

National Front, ref1

National Government: formation, ref1; cabinet, ref1, ref2; Labour opposition, ref1; leaving the gold standard, ref1; election (1931), ref1; Tory-dominated, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; departure of free-trading Liberals, ref1; housing policy, ref1, ref2; unemployment issue, ref1, ref2, ref3; police powers, ref1; sympathy for Japan, ref1; naval agreement with Germany, ref1; rearmament concerns, ref1, ref2, ref3; Stresa declaration (1935), ref1; response to invasion of Abyssinia, ref1, ref2, ref3; election (1935), ref1; response to Spanish civil war, ref1; nonintervention policy, ref1, ref2; Public Order Act (1936), ref1

National Health Service (NHS): established, ref1; prescription charges, ref1

National Health Service Act (1946), ref1

National Insurance Acts: (1911), ref1, ref2; (1946), ref1

National Labour party, ref1, ref2