by Andrew Marr
inter-war ref1, ref2
Artists’ Rifles ref1
Asquith, Helen (first wife) ref1
Asquith, Herbert ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
downfall ref1, ref2
and First World War ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
and Home Rule ref1
and House of Lords reform ref1, ref2
loses seat in 1918 election ref1
and loss of son ref1
marriages ref1, ref2
and press ref1
relationship with Venetia Stanley ref1
succession as prime minister ref1
and tariff reform ref1, ref2
and women’s suffrage ref1, ref2
Asquith, Margot (second wife) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Asquith, Raymond (son) ref1
Asquith, Violet (daughter) ref1
Ataturk, Kemal ref1
Atlantic Charter ref1
Attlee, Clement ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Auchinleck, General Claude ref1, ref2
Audemars, Edmond ref1
Australia
and First World War ref1
Automobile Association ref1
Automobile Club ref1
Aveling, Edward ref1
back-to-nature movement ref1
Baden-Powell, Sir Robert ref1, ref2
Balcon, Michael ref1
Baldwin, Stanley ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
and abdication crisis ref1, ref2, ref3
and broadcasting ref1
characteristics ref1
and Churchill ref1
conflict with Rothermere and Beaverbrook ref1, ref2
and General Strike ref1, ref2
and India ref1
and Lloyd George ref1
and protectionism ref1
resignation ref1
succession as prime minister ref1
Balfour, A.J. ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Balfour, Betty ref1
Balfour Declaration (1917) ref1
Bank of England ref1, ref2, ref3
banks ref1
Barnes, Fred ref1
Barry, Sir John Wolfe ref1
Basset Hound Club Rules and Studbook ref1, ref2
Battle of the Atlantic ref1, ref2
Battle of Britain ref1
Battle of the Somme (film) ref1
battleships ref1 see also Dreadnoughts
Bauhaus movement ref1
Bax, Arnold ref1
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) ref1, ref2
and abdication crisis ref1
creation ref1
development under Reith ref1, ref2
early announcers and tone of voice ref1
and General Strike (1926) ref1
receives first Royal Charter (1927) ref1
and Second World War ref1
‘BBC English’ ref1
beach holidays ref1
Beamish, Henry Hamilton ref1
Beatty, Admiral David ref1, ref2, ref3
Beaufort, Duke of ref1
Beaverbrook, Lord (Max Aitken) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Beck, Harry ref1
Beckwith-Smith, Brigadier ref1
BEF (British Expeditionary Force)
and First World War ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
and Second World War ref1, ref2, ref3
Belgian Congo ref1
Bell, Bishop ref1
Belloc, Hilaire ref1
Benn, Tony ref1
Bennett, Arnold ref1
Whom God Hath Joined ref1
Benz, Karl ref1
Beresford, Lord Charles ref1
Besant, Annie ref1
Bethmann-Hollweg, Chancellor ref1, ref2
Bevan, Nye ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Beveridge, William ref1, ref2
Bevin, Ernie ref1, ref2
Billings, Pemberton ref1
‘bird flu’ ref1
birth control see contraception
Bismarck ref1
black Americans
arrival in Britain during Second World War ref1
Black and Tans ref1
Blackshirts ref1, ref2, ref3
Blake, Robert ref1
Bland, Hubert ref1, ref2
Bland, Rosamund ref1
Blast (magazine) ref1
Blatchford, Robert ref1, ref2
Bletchley Park ref1
Bluebird Garage ref1
Blunt, Wilfred Scawen ref1, ref2
‘Bob’s your uncle’ phrase ref1
Boer War ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Boggart Hole riot (Manchester) (1906) ref1, ref2
Bolsheviks ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Bomber Command ref1, ref2
‘Bomber Harris’ see Harris, Sir Arthur
Bonar Law, Andrew ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Booth, Charles ref1, ref2
Boothby, Bob ref1
Bottomley, Horatio ref1
Bowser, Charlie ref1
Boy Scouts see scouting movement
Boys Brigade ref1
Bradlaugh, Charles ref1
Braithwaite, W.J. ref1
Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of (1918) ref1
Bristol Hippodrome ref1
British Broadcasting Corporation see BBC
British Empire ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
British Empire Exhibition (1924) ref1
British Empire Union ref1
British Eugenics Education Society ref1
British Expeditionary Force see BEF
British Gazette ref1, ref1
British Grand Prix ref1
British Legion ref1
British Union of Fascists see BUF
Britons, The ref1
Brittain, Vera ref1
Britten, Benjamin ref1
broadcasting ref1 see also BBC
Brooke, Sir Alan ref1, ref2, ref3
Brooke, Raymond ref1
Brooke, Rupert ref1
Brown, Gordon ref1
Brownshirts ref1
Buchan, John
Prestor John ref1
BUF (British Union of Fascists) ref1, ref2, ref3
Burma ref1
Butler, R.A. ref1, ref2
Cable Street, Battle of (1936) ref1, ref2
Cadogan, Sir Alexander ref1
Cambrai, Battle of (1917) ref1
Campbell, Donald ref1
Campbell, Malcolm ref1
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry ref1, ref2
camping and caravanning ref1
Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland ref1
Canterbury, Archbishop of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Carnarvon, Lord ref1
cars ref1, ref2, ref3
benefits of ref1
developments in ref1, ref2
first accident involving a pedestrian and ref1
Fordist mass-production ref1
motorists’ clothing ref1
rise in number of during Edwardian era ref1
Carson, Edward ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Casement, Sir Roger ref1, ref2
Cat and Mouse Act ref1
cavity magnetron ref1
Cecil, Hugh ref1
CEMA ref1
censorship
Second World War ref1, ref2
Chamberlain, Arthur ref1
Chamberlain, Joe ref1
background and early political career ref1
and Boer War ref1
breaks away from Liberals ref1
characteristics ref1
fame of ref1
sets up Liberal Unionist organization ref1
stroke ref1, ref2
and tariff reform debate ref1, ref2, ref3
Chamberlain, Neville ref1, ref2, ref3
and appeasement ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
as Chancellor ref1
and Churchill ref1
downfall and resignation ref1, ref
2
failure of diplomacy towards Hitler ref1
and Munich ref1
and Second World War ref1, ref2
Channel Islands ref1
Channon, Sir Henry (‘Chips’) ref1
Chaplin, Charlie ref1, ref2
Chatsworth ref1
Chequers ref1
Cherwell, Lord (Frederick Lindemann) ref1
Cheshire, Leonard ref1
Chesterton, G.K. ref1, ref2
Childers, Erskine
execution of by IRA ref1
The Riddle of the Sands ref1
Chindits ref1
Christie, Agatha ref1, ref2
Churchill, Clementine ref1
Churchill, Randolph ref1, ref2
Churchill, Winston ref1, ref2
and abdication crisis ref1
as air minister ref1
anti-aristocracy rhetoric ref1
at Board of Trade ref1
and Boer War ref1
and Bolsheviks ref1
and bombing of German cities during Second World War ref1
and Chamberlain ref1
as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Baldwin ref1
and Empire theatre protest ref1
and eugenics ref1, ref2
as First Lord of the Admiralty and build-up of navy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
and First World War ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
and Gallipoli campaign ref1
and General Strike ref1, ref2
and George V ref1
and German invasion threat prior to First World War ref1
and Hitler ref1, ref2
and Home Rule ref1, ref2, ref3
and India ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
and Lloyd George ref1, ref2, ref3
loses seat in 1922 election ref1
political views and belief in social reform ref1
public calls for return to government ref1
rejoins Tory Party ref1
relationship with Fisher ref1
relationship with United States during Second World War ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
resignation over India (1931) ref1
and return to gold standard ref1, ref2
and Rowntree’s book on poverty ref1
and Second World War ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
and Sidney Street siege ref1
speeches during Second World War ref1, ref2
steps to becoming Prime Minister ref1
suffragette attack on ref1
and tariff reform ref1, ref2
threatening of European peace by Hitler warning and calls for rearmament ref1, ref2, ref3
and Tonypandy miners’ strike (1910) ref1
cinema ref1
Citizens’ Army ref1
City of London Imperial Volunteers ref1
civil service ref1
Clark, Alan
The Donkeys ref1
Clark, Sir Kenneth ref1, ref2
Clarke, Tom ref1
class
distinctions in Edwardian Britain ref1
divisions within army during First World War ref1
impact of Second World War on ref1, ref2
and politics in twenties ref1
clothing
motorists’ ref1
and Second World War ref1
and status in Edwardian Britain ref1
in twenties ref1
Clydebank, bombing of ref1
Clydeside ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
coal miners strike (1912) ref1
Coliseum (London) ref1
Collins, Michael ref1, ref2, ref3
Colville, Jock ref1, ref2, ref3
Common Wealth ref1, ref2
Communist Party of Great Britain ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
communist revolution, fear of ref1
communists ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Conan Doyle, Arthur ref1, ref2
The Hound of the Baskervilles ref1
Concorde ref1, ref2, ref3
Congo Reform Association ref1
Connolly, James ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Connor, William (‘Cassandra’) ref1
Conrad, Joseph ref1, ref2
Heart of Darkness ref1
The Secret Agent ref1
conscientious objectors
First World War ref1
Second World War ref1
Conservatives ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
contraception ref1, ref2, ref3
Coolidge, President Calvin ref1, ref2
Cooper, Duff ref1, ref2, ref3
Corrigan, Gordon ref1
Coventry, bombing of ref1, ref2
Coward, Nöel ref1
crash (1929) ref1, ref2
Cripps, Sir Stafford ref1, ref2
Crookes, Sir William ref1
Crooks, Will ref1
Crystal Palace fire (1936) ref1
Curzon, Lord ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Czechoslovakia ref1, ref2
Dacre, Harry ref1
Daily Express ref1, ref2, ref3
Daily Mail ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Ideal Home Exhibition ref1
Northcliffe’s article on shells crisis during war ref1
Daily Mirror ref1, ref2
Daimler, Gottfried ref1
‘Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer Do’ ref1, ref2
Darwin, Charles ref1
Darwin, Erasmus ref1
Darwin, Major Leonard ref1
Davidson, J.C.C. ref1, ref2
Davison, Emily Wilding ref1
Davos Ski Club ref1
De Havilland ref1
De La Warr Seaside Pavilion (Bexhill) ref1
de Nyevelt, Baron de Zuylen ref1
de Valera, Eamon ref1, ref2, ref3
Debrett’s Peerage ref1
Defence of the Realm Act see DORA
Dickens, Charles ref1
Dimond, Phyllis ref1
distributism ref1
Distributist League ref1
ditchers ref1, ref2
divorce ref1
Divorce Law Reform Association ref1
Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers’ Union ref1
dockers’ strikes ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Doenitz, Admiral ref1
DORA (Defence of the Realm Act) ref1, ref2, ref3
Douglas, Clifford ref1
Dowding, Sir Hugh ‘Stuffy’ ref1, ref2
Dreadnoughts ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Dresden, bombing of (1945) ref1
drug taking, in twenties ref1
Dunkirk ref1, ref2, ref3
Dunlop, John Boyd ref1
Dyer, General ref1
Easter Rising (1916) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Eckersley, Peter ref1, ref2, ref3
economy
and gold standard ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
impact of crash (1929) ref1
post-First World War ref1, ref2
Eden, Anthony ref1, ref2, ref3
Edinburgh Castle pub (London) ref1
Edmunds, Henry ref1
education
Edwardian era ref1
inter-war years ref1, ref2
Education Act (1902) ref1
Edward VII, King ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Edward VIII, King ref1
abdication ref1, ref2
affair with Mrs Dudley Ward ref1
enthusiasm for Nazi Germany ref1
love for Wallis Simpson ref1, ref2
and social reform ref1
Egypt ref1, ref2, ref3
Eighth Army ref1, ref2
Eisenhower, General ref1
El-Alamein, Battle of ref1, ref2
elections
(1906) ref1
(1910) ref1, ref2
(1918) ref1
(1922) ref1, ref2
(1923) ref1
(1924) ref1
(1931) re
f1
(1935) ref1
Elgar, Sir Edward ref1
Eliot, T.S. ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
‘Burnt Norton’ ref1
The Wasteland ref1
Ellis, Havelock ref1
emigration
Edwardian era ref1
inter-war years ref1
Empire Day ref1
Empire theatre (London) ref1
Enigma ref1, ref2
ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association) ref1
eugenics ref1
evolution ref1
explorers ref1
Fabian Society ref1, ref2, ref3
Fairey Battle bombers ref1, ref2
fascism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6 see also BUF
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett ref1, ref2
Feisal, Emir ref1, ref2
Fenians ref1
film industry see cinema
Film Society ref1
finger prints ref1
Finland ref1
First World War (1914) ref1, ref2
aftermath ref1
and alcohol ref1
Balkans campaign ref1
Baltic plan ref1
and Battle of Jutland ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
and BEF ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
British blockade of Germany ref1, ref2, ref3
and burial of the Unknown Soldier ref1
class divisions in army ref1
collapse of German army ref1
comparison with Second World War ref1
conscription ref1; criticism of by UDC ref2
Dardanelles campaign ref1, ref2, ref3
death toll and casualties ref1, ref2, ref3
early military failures ref1
and film industry ref1
and Fisher ref1
food shortages and rationing ref1
formation of coalition government ref1, ref2
French campaign ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Gallipoli campaign ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
German raids ref1
and Haig ref1
impact of on British people ref1
and Middle East ref1
munitions factories ref1
Orpen’s paintings of ref1
and Passchendaele ref1
post-war attack on military chiefs ref1
post-war impact of ref1
preparations for ref1
and press/journalists ref1