The Making of Modern Britain

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)

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  and Second World War ref1, ref2, ref3

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  Bell, Bishop ref1

  Belloc, Hilaire ref1

  Benn, Tony ref1

  Bennett, Arnold ref1

  Whom God Hath Joined ref1

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  Beresford, Lord Charles ref1

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  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

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  Blatchford, Robert ref1, ref2

  Bletchley Park ref1

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  Bomber Command ref1, ref2

  ‘Bomber Harris’ see Harris, Sir Arthur

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  Booth, Charles ref1, ref2

  Boothby, Bob ref1

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  Bowser, Charlie ref1

  Boy Scouts see scouting movement

  Boys Brigade ref1

  Bradlaugh, Charles ref1

  Braithwaite, W.J. ref1

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  Bristol Hippodrome ref1

  British Broadcasting Corporation see BBC

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  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

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  Britten, Benjamin ref1

  broadcasting ref1 see also BBC

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  Campbell, Malcolm ref1

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  Carnarvon, Lord ref1

  cars ref1, ref2, ref3

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  first accident involving a pedestrian and ref1

  Fordist mass-production ref1

  motorists’ clothing ref1

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  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
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  failure of diplomacy towards Hitler ref1

  and Munich ref1

  and Second World War ref1, ref2

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  Channon, Sir Henry (‘Chips’) ref1

  Chaplin, Charlie ref1, ref2

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  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

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  and Sidney Street siege ref1

  speeches during Second World War ref1, ref2

  steps to becoming Prime Minister ref1

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  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

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  Coventry, bombing of ref1, ref2

  Coward, Nöel ref1

  crash (1929) ref1, ref2

  Cripps, Sir Stafford ref1, ref2

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  Crooks, Will ref1

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  Daily Mail ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Ideal Home Exhibition ref1

  Northcliffe’s article on shells crisis during war ref1

  Daily Mirror ref1, ref2

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  de Valera, Eamon ref1, ref2, ref3

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  Defence of the Realm Act see DORA

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  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

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  Douglas, Clifford ref1

  Dowding, Sir Hugh ‘Stuffy’ ref1, ref2

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  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

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  Eliot, T.S. ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  ‘Burnt Norton’ ref1

  The Wasteland ref1

  Ellis, Havelock ref1

  emigration

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  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

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  preparations for ref1

  and press/journalists ref1