domestic skills 1, 2, 3
emotional breakdown 1, 2
and the end of the war 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
and the general election 1, 2
on the German people 1
on the Holocaust 1
ill health 1, 2
on Indian situation 1
on keeping up appearances 1
leisure 1, 2, 3
marriage, view of 1
movie-going 1
New Year ‘blues’ 1
and the outbreak of war 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
post-war years 1
on rationing 1
on social reform 1
war work 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Last, Will 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Leeds 1, 2
Legal Aid Scheme 1, 2
Leopold, King 1
Libya 1, 2
Liverpool 1, 2
London
‘baby blitz’ 1, 2, 3
Blitz 1, 2, 3
V-1 attacks 1, 2
London School of Economics 1
London Transport Board 1
looting 1
Low, David 1
Lübeck, bombing of 1
Luxemburg 1
Lynton 1
Malaya 1
Manchester 1
Manchuria, Japanese invasion of 1
Married Women’s Association 1
Married Women’s Property Act 1
Mass-Observation (M-O) 1, 2
diary project 1, 2
directives (surveys) 1
recruitment 1
means-tested public assistance 1, 2
Merseyside 1, 2, 3
Millennium bombing 1
Minehead 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ministry of Information 1
Mitchell, Helen 1, 2, 3, 4
and air raids 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
on the atomic bomb 1
and the Basic English project 1
on the Beveridge Report 1, 2, 3
on bombing of German cities 1, 2
on Churchill 1
on D-Day 1
domestic troubles 1, 2, 3, 4
and the end of the war 1, 2, 3
on fuel shortages 1
and the general election 1
on the Holocaust 1
house guests and lodgers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
on housekeeping money 1, 2
ill health 1, 2
on Italy’s surrender 1, 2
leisure 1, 2
marital troubles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
on the Mosleys 1
peripatetic life 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
post-war years 1
on Roosevelt’s death 1
on Stafford Cripps 1
and the V-1/V-2 raids 1, 2, 3
war work 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Mitchell, Peter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Mitchell, William 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Mitchison, Naomi 1
Mitford, Tom 1
Mitford, Unity 1
Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard 1
moral dilemmas 1
moral panics 1, 2
morale 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Morocco 1
Morrison, Herbert 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Morrison shelters 1, 2
Mosley, Lady Diana 1
Mosley, Sir Oswald 1
Mulberry harbours 1
Munich Crisis (1938) 1
Murrow, Edward R. 1, 2, 3
Muslim League 1, 2
Mussolini, Benito 1, 2
execution of 1
Nagasaki 1, 2
national anthem 1
National Health Insurance scheme 1
National Health Service 1, 2, 3, 4
National Loaf 1
National Trust 1
nationalization 1
Natzwiller camp 1
Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact 1, 2
Nehru, Jawaharlal 1, 2
Netherlands 1, 2, 3
New British Broadcasting Station 1
new world order, visions of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Newcastle 1, 2
News Chronicle 1
Night of the Long Knives (1934) 1
Noel-Baker, Philip 1
Normandy landings 1, 2
North African campaign 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Norway, Nazi invasion of 1, 2
Norwich 1, 2
Norwood Report 1
Operation Fortitude 1
Operation Gomorrah 1
Operation Overlord 1
see also Normandy landings
Operation Sea Lion 1, 2, 3
Operation Steinbock 1, 2
orange shipments, destruction of 1
Orwell, George 1, 2
Ouistreham 1
pacifism 1
parachute mines 1
Paris
German entry into 1
government evacuation of 1, 2
recapture of 1
Pas-de-Calais 1, 2
Passchendaele 1
patriotism 1
Patton, General 1
Pearl Harbor 1, 2
Penang 1
People’s Peace 1, 2, 3
People’s War 1, 2
exhortations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
phrase coined 1
peripatetic lives 1
Personal Injuries Act 1
Pétain, Marshal 1
Phoney War 1, 2, 3, 4
phospherine tonic 1
Plymouth 1
Poland
British-Polish pact 1, 2
government-in-exile 1
Nazi invasion 1
Soviet invasion 1, 2
Poor Law Guardians 1
postal service 1
Postscript 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Pound, Sir Dudley 1
prefabs 1
Price, George 1
Priestley, J.B. 1, 2, 3, 4
and the 1941 Committee 1
and a new world order 1
Prince of Wales, sinking of 1, 2
prisoners of war 1
profiteering 1
proportional representation 1
public hatred of Germans 1
purchase tax 1
Quisling, Vidkun 1
Quit India Movement 1, 2
racism 1
American GIs 1, 2
in the services 1
Radio Frankfurt 1
Radio Luxemburg 1
Rangoon 1
ration books 1
fake coupons 1
sale of 1
rationing 1, 2
coal 1, 2
end of 1
food 1
post-war 1
restaurants and 1
soap 1, 2
Reading, Lady 1, 2
rearmament 1
Red Cross 1, 2, 3, 4
parcels 1, 2
shops 1, 2, 3
Repulse, sinking of 1, 2
restaurants 1
Reynaud, Paul 1, 2
Rohm, Ernst 1
Rome 1, 2, 3, 4
Rommel, General Erwin 1, 2, 3, 4
Roosevelt, Eleanor 1
Roosevelt, F.D. 1, 2, 3, 4
Rowntree, Seebohm 1
Royal Academy of Music (RAM) 1
Royal Infirmary, Sunderland 1
Royal Military Canal 1
Royal Navy 1, 2, 3
Royal Victoria hospital, Newcastle 1
Rutherford, Edie 1, 2
and air raids 1, 2
on the atomic bomb 1, 2
on Basic English 1
on the Bengal famine 1
on the Beveridge Report 1
on the black market 1, 2
on the bombing of German cities 1, 2
on Churchill 1, 2, 3, 4
on D-Day 1, 2
and the end of the war 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
on equal pay 1
on fall of Singapore 1
family members in armed forces 1
on fuel rationing and shortag
es 1, 2, 3
on Gandhi 1
and the general election 1, 2
on the Hitler assassination plot 1
on the Holocaust 1
on Indian situation 1, 2
interest in Commonwealth endeavours 1, 2
on Italy’s surrender 1, 2, 3
leisure 1
on the miners’ strikes 1
patriotism 1
post-war years 1
on prefabs 1
on racism 1, 2
on rationing 1, 2, 3, 4
on Roosevelt’s death 1
on utility products 1
war work 1, 2, 3
on wartime crime 1, 2
on women’s rights 1
Rutherford, Sid 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sackville-West, Vita 1
St Paul’s Cathedral 1
salvage controls 1
saturation bombing 1, 2
‘Saucepans for Spitfires’ campaign 1
school-leaving age 1, 2
Schwarze Kapelle 1, 2, 3
second front 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
secondary modern schools 1
Secret Operations Executive (SOE) 1
Services Divorce Department 1
sexual relations 1
see also divorce; infidelities
Shaw, George Bernard 1
Sheffield 1, 2, 3
shell shock 1
Sicily 1, 2
Simpson, Wallis 1
Singapore 1
fall of 1, 2
Smith, Tom 1
Smuts, Jan 1
soap rationing 1, 2
social insurance 1, 2
Social Insurance Committee 1
social reforms see education reform;
social insurance
socialism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
South Africa 1, 2, 3, 4
Boers 1
combat troops 1, 2, 3
Southampton 1, 2, 3
Soviet Union 1, 2, 3
Anglo-Soviet alliance 1
capture of Berlin 1
German invasion of 1, 2, 3
invasion of Poland 1
Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact 1, 2
post-war relations with 1
Spain 1, 2
Spanish Civil War 1, 2, 3, 4
Spence, Basil 1
Spitfire Fund 1
Springboks (South African troops) 1, 2
Stalin, Joseph 1, 2, 3
Stalingrad 1, 2, 3
Stauffenberg, Count von 1, 2, 3
Strachey, John 1
strikes
anti-strike legislation 1
coal-miners 1, 2, 3
days lost to 1
General Strike (1926) 1
Sudentenland 1, 2
Summerskill, Edith 1, 2, 3, 4
Sunderland 1
Swansea 1
Tanner, Hugh 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Tanner, James 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Tanner, Natalie 1, 2
affair with Major X 1
and air raids 1
amateur dramatics 1, 2
on Belgian surrender 1
and the black market 1
on the bombing of German cities 1, 2
communist sympathies 1
and D-Day 1
and the end of the war 1, 2, 3
on fall of Hong Kong 1
and the general election 1, 2
holidays 1, 2
on the Holocaust 1, 2
house guests 1
and husband’s mental breakdown 1
on Indian independence 1
leisure 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
on the miners’ strikes 1
on the Mosleys 1
movie-going 1
and the Normandy landings 1
on the Beveridge Report 1
and the outbreak of war 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
post-war years 1
and rationing 1, 2
on Roosevelt’s death 1
On the use of insanity defence 1 vegetable growing 1, 2
Tate, Mavis 1, 2
teachers, married 1
technical schools 1
theatre 1, 2
The Times 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
‘tip ’n’ run’ raids 1
Tobruk, fall of 1, 2
Tokyo, bombing of 1
Treaty of Versailles 1
Tunisia 1
Tyneside 1, 2
U-boats 1
unemployment 1, 2, 3
unemployment insurance 1, 2, 3
women and 1
United States
entry into the war 1, 2
GIs 1, 2
isolationism 1
university education 1
utility products 1
V-1 bombs 1, 2
V-2 bombs 1, 2, 3, 4
Vaughan Thomas, Wynford 1
VE Day 1, 2
vegetable growing 1, 2, 3
Vickers 1, 2
Vimy Ridge 1
VJ Day 1
war weariness 1, 2
waste, criminalisation of 1
Wavell, General Archibald 1
Welles, Orson 1
Weygand, General Maxime 1
widow’s pension 1
winter hardships 1, 2, 3
Woman’s Own 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Wombwell Coking Company 1
Wombwell Colliery Company 1
women
compensation for injuries 1
compulsory fire-watching duties 1
and divorce 1, 2
domestic management 1, 2, 3
economic dependency 1
equal pay issue 1
housekeeping money 1
infidelities 1, 2
keeping up appearances 1, 2
marriage, expectations of 1
registration for war work 1
sexual double standards 1, 2
and social insurance benefits 1, 2, 3
teachers 1
women’s rights 1
Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) 1, 2, 3, 4
Womersley, Sir Walter 1
Wood, Kingsley 1
Woods, Reverend George 1
Woolton, Lord 1, 2
workplace theft 1
Würzburg, bombing of 1
Yalta Conference (1945) 1
York 1, 2, 3
Young, Sir Mark 1
Ypres, Third Battle of 1
see also Passchendaele
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