census (1901)
Central Labour College (London)
Chadwick, Edwin
Chamberlain, Arthur
Chamberlain, Austen
Chamberlain, Joseph; attempt at arranging Anglo-German alliance; background; and Boer War; death; and Duke of Devonshire; ‘imperial Preference’ policy and opposition to free trade; and Jameson Raid; and Northcliffe; resignation intention; support of Balfour; and tariff reform
Chancellor, Francis
Chaplin, Charlie
Chaplin, Henry
Charity Organisation Society
charity, organised
Chesterton, Cecil
Chesterton, G. K.; Orthodoxy; The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Cheyne, T. K.
child welfare
Childers, Erskine: The Riddle of the Sands
Children’s Act (1908)
Chile
China
Chinese Turkestan
Chipping Camden
Christian Social Union
Church Army
Church Association
Church of England; and Anglo-Catholics; and clergy; defending beliefs against intellectual and scientific advances; detachment from people of growing cities; divisions within; and Modernism; and Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline
church schools
Church Socialist League
churches; and architecture; attendances
Churchill, Lord Randolph
Churchill, Winston; background and career; at Board of Trade; and Boer War; and budget (1909); crosses floor of House of Commons; decisions built upon sudden impulses; and Eight Hour Bill; and First World War; at Home Office; and Home Rule; ideas; and labour exchanges; and Marconi contract; philosophy; Presidency of Budget League; prison policy and reform; and Sidney Street siege; and ‘sweated industries’; and Tonypandy riots; and trade unions; and Trades Board Bill; and women’s suffrage
cities: poverty in
Civil List
Claremont, Ernest
Clarke, Colonel Sir George
Clarke, Sir Edward
clergy
clothes
coal industry
Code for Public Elementary Education (1904)
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
Collins, Michael
Collison, William
Colonial Conference (1906)
Committee on the Aged and Deserving Poor
Committee on Physical Deterioration
Compact of Regulas
Comper, J. N.
Conan Doyle, Arthur
Conciliation Bill
Conference of the National Union of Conservative Associations
Connolly, James
Conrad, Joseph; Lord Jim; The Secret Agent
Conservative Party see Tory Party
Cooper, Charlotte
corn tariff
Corsley (Wiltshire)
County Council Act (1888)
County Finance Bill (1885)
Courtney, W. L.
Craig, James
Cranley, James
cricket
crime
Crippen, Hawley Harvey
Crockerton, T.
Crompton, Bob
Cumberti, Vittorio
Cunard Shipping Company
Curzon, Frank
Curzon, Lord George Nathaniel
Daily Chronicle
Daily Express
Daily Graphic
Daily Herald
Daily Mail
Daily Mirror
Daily News
Daily Paper
Daily Post
Daily Sketch
Daimler, Gottlieb
Daimler Motor Syndicate
Dalai Lama
Dangerfield, George: The Strange Death of Liberal England
Darrow, Clarence
Dartmoor Prison
Darwin, Charles: Origin of Species
Davidson, Randall, Archbishop of Canterbury
Davies, David
Davies, Maude: Life in an English Village
Davis, Arthur
Davison, Emily Wilding
Davitt, Michael
Davy, J. S.
Dawson, Geoffrey
Dawson, Mrs E. E.
de la Mare, Walter
Debbs, Eugene
Delius, Frederick
Dell, Ethel M.
Deutschland (ship)
Devonshire, Duke of
Devoy, John
Dickinson, Lowes
Dilke, Sir Charles
Dimmock, Emily ‘Phyllis’
‘disintegration theory’
Disraeli, Benjamin
Dolan, Charles
Don
Donohue, Steve
Dreadnoughts
Dublin University
Dundee
Dunlop, Marion Wallace
Dunville, John
Durham, Lord
Earnings and Hours of Labour Enquiry (1906)
economy
Edalyi, George
Edison, Thomas
Edmunds, Henry
education; adult; and Bryce Commission; church/voluntary schools; and Code for Public Elementary Education (1904); and higher grade schools; and Local Education Authorities; maintained schools; and school boards see school boards; and Scotland; setting up of unified Education Ministry (1900); status of teachers; and working class; see also universities
Education Act (1870)
Education Act (1891)
Education Act (1896)
Education Act (1902)
Education Act (1906)
Education (Administrative Provisions) Bill (1906)
Education Ministry
Edward VII, King; assessment of ability; and Campbell-Bannerman; Coronation; death; despises intellectual pursuits; dispute over award of honours; eating habits; and Entente Cordiale; foreign policy involvement; intervention in politics and government; obsession with court protocol; and peerages issue; postponement of Coronation due to appendicitis operation;
[as PRINCE OF WALES: affair with Lily Langtry; and Aylesford case; excluded from seeing official papers; and Gladstone; government interference; and Lady Beresford; lifestyle; and Mordaunt affair; neglect of education and lack of training to be King; participation in House of Lords; public scandals surrounding; royal duties; and Tranby Croft Affair, ]
and racing; reaction to Lloyd George’s Limehouse Speech; relations with politicians; reliance on Hardinge; and smoking; social life and extravagance; state visit to Berlin (1909); success of visit to Paris; and suffragettes; temperament; and theatre; tour of European capitals (1903); visit to Ireland (1903); and Wilhelm II
Edward VIII, King
Edwards, George
Egerton, George
Egypt
Eight Hours Act (1909)
elections: (1900); (1906); (1910)
Elgar, Edward; The Dream of Gerontius; The Enigma Variations; ‘Land of Hope and Glory’; other works; ‘Pomp and Circumstance’;
Eliot, George: Middlemarch
Eliot, T. S.
Ellenoir, Jean-Joseph
Employers Parliamentary Council
Endowed Schools Act (1869)
English Church Union
English Realism
Entente Cordiale
epistemology
Esher, Lord (Reginald Brett)
ethical systems
Evangelical Movement
Evans, Petty Officer ‘Taff’
Evans, Rowland
Evening News
Evening Standard
Evening Times
Fawcett, Millicent
Feinstein, C. H.
Ferdinand, Archduke: assassination
Ferman, Henry
fiction
film
Finance Bill (1909)
Finance (No. 2) Bill (1909)
fingerprinting
First World War; steps to
Fisher, Admiral Sir John
food
&nb
sp; food taxes
football
Football Association
Ford, Henry
Forster, E. M.; Howards End; The Longest Journey; A Room with a View; Where Angels Fear to Tread
Forster, Hugh Arnold
Forster, W. E.
Foster, Arnold
fox hunting
France
Franco-Prussian War (1870)
Frazer, James
Free Style Movement
free trade
French, Lord
Fry, C. B.
Fry, Roger
Futurism
Gaelic League
Gaiety Theatre
Galsworthy, John; The Man of Property
gambling
Garden Cities
Garvin, James
General Federation of Trade Unions
General Strike (1926)
General Workers Union
George V, King
‘Georgian Poets’
German, Edward
Germany; attempt at Anglo-German alliance by Chamberlain; and Boxer Rebellion; building of battleships; economic success; and First World War; foreign policy; invasion of Belgium; and Morocco; and national insurance scheme; naval fleet; relations with Britain; steel production; see also Wilhelm II, Kaiser
Gilbert, W. S.
Gill, Eric
Girton College
Gladstone, Herbert
Gladstone, W. E.
Glasier, John Bruce
Glynn, Elinor; Halcyon
Godwin, Edward
golf
Gonne, Maud
Gordon, General
Gordon-Cummings, Sir William
Gore, Charles
Gore-Booth, Constance
Gore-Booth, Eva
Gorst, Sir John
Gough, General Sir Hubert
Grace, W. G.
Grafton Gallery (London)
Graham-White, Claude
Grainger, Percy
Granier, Mlle Jeanne
Grant, Duncan
Granville-Barker, Harley; The Madras House; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste
Grayson, Victor
Great Cross-Country Race
Great Reform Bill (1867)
Great Trial (1900)
Great War see First World War
Green, T. H.
Greenall, Gilbert
Greenall, Tom
Grein, J. T.
Grey, Sir Edward
Griffith, Arthur
Grigg, John
Guest, Merthy
Guild of Arts and Handicrafts
Haakon VII, King of Norway
Haberton, Lady
Haggard, Rider
Hague Conference
Haig, General Douglas
Haldane, Richard
Halifax, Lord
Hall Walker, Colonel
Hamilton, Lord George
Hampstead
Hampstead Garden Trust
Harcourt, Sir William
Hardie, Keir
Hardinge, Arthur
Hardinge, Charles
Hardinge, Lord
Hardy, Thomas; The Dynasts
Harmsworth, Alfred see Northcliffe, Viscount
Harmsworth, Harold
Harvey, Sir Paul
Hawke, Lord
Hearst, William Randolph
Heart of Achilles, The
Henderson, Arthur
Heuffer, Ford Maddox
Hicks Beach, Sir Michael
Hill, Octavia
Hirst, George
Hobbs, J. B.
Hobhouse, Emily
Hobson, J. A.
Hodge, John
Holland, Henry Scott
Holmes, Edmund
Holst, Gustav
Home Rule; divisions within Liberal Party over; mutiny within British Army over fighting against UVF; opposition to and demonstrations against; and partition issue; raising of Volunteer Force to oppose; ‘Solemn League and Covenant to Resist Home Rule’
Home Rule Bill (1886)
Home Rule Bill (1912)
Horniman, Anne
Houghton, Stanley: Hindle Wakes
House, Colonel
House of Commons
House of Lords
Housing of the Working Classes Act (1884)
Housman, A. E.
Housman, Laurence
How the Labourer Lives
Howard, Ebenezer
Howards End
Howarth, Mary
Hudson, Walter
hunting
Husband, John
Huxley, Thomas
Hyslop, T. P.
Ibrox Park (Glasgow): crowd disaster (1902)
Ibsen, Henrik
idealists/idealism
immigration: and Aliens Bill
Impressionists
Independent Labour Party (ILP)
India
industrial unrest
Industrial Workers of the World
industry
Insurance Act (1911)
Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration report (1904)
Ireland; and Devolution Bill; and Home Rule see Home Rule; King Edward’s visit (1903); low standard of living in; nationalist movement; and partition issue; trade union demonstrations (1913); uprising (1916); view of nationalism by English parliament
Irish Citizens’ Army
Irish Land Acts
Irish Literary Theatre (later Irish National Theatre Society)
Irish Nationalist Party
Irish Republic Brotherhood
Irish Transport and General Workers Union
Irving, Sir Henry
Isaacs, Sir Rufus
Jackson, Sir F. S.
Jaeger, August
James, Frazer: The Golden Bough
James, Henry; The Ambassadors
James of Hereford, Lord
Jameson Raid (1895)
Jarvis, Kate
Jenkins, Roy
Jersey, Lord
Jessop, Gilbert
Jockey Club
John, Augustus
Johnson, Jack
Johnstone, Sir Frederic
Jones, Henry Arthur
Jones, Kennedy
Justice (play)
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse (ship)
Kee, Robert: The Green Flag
Kekewick, Sir George
Kellerman, Mary
Kendal, Madge
Kenney, Annie
Keppel, Alice
Kerry, Annie
Keynes, John Maynard; Treatise on Probability
Kimberley, siege of (1900)
Kipling, Rudyard
Kitchener, General Horatio Herbert
Knight, John Henry
Knight, Joseph
Knollys, Francis
Knox, John
Koch, Robert
Kossuth, Louis
Kruger, Johannes Paulus
Kynochs
Labouchere, Henry
labour exchanges
Labour Party
Labour Representative Committee (LRC)
Laking, Sir Francis
Lamport, George
Lancashire Federation
Lancashire Miners
Lancashire Textile Workers
land taxes: and 1909 budget
Langen, Eugen
Langtry, Lily
Lansbury, George
Lansdowne, Lord
Larkin, James
Lawrence, D. H.; critic of Moore’s philosophy; Sons and Lovers; The White Peacock
Lawson, Harvey J.
Lawson, Sir William
League Opposing Women’s Suffrage
Leeds University
Leigh, J. M.
Leigh, Mary
Lewis, Wyndham
Lhasa
Liberal Christian League
Liberal Imperial Council
Liberal Party; alienation of organised labour from; and Boer War; decline; loses office (1895); and 1900 election
; rejection of Royal Commission’s report on Poor Law; splits within; and trade unions; wins election (1906)
Licensing Bill
Lipton, Sir Thomas
Lister, Lord
literature , see also individual titles
Liverpool Cathedral
Liverpool University
Lloyd George, David; and anti-war meeting in Birmingham (1901); assault on rights of property; background; and Boer War; as Chancellor of the Exchequer; and election (1900); and First World War; and House of Lords reform; and land taxes; and Limehouse Speech; and Marconi contract; and Northcliffe; and pensions; People’s Budget (1909); philosophy; threat of scandal; and trade unions
Local Education Authorities
Local Government Board
Locomotives and Highways Act
Lodge, Sir Oliver
London
London School Board
London Society for Women’s Suffrage
London Technical Board
London to Manchester Aviation Prize
London Trades Council
Long, Walter
Lonsdale, Lord
Lonsdale, Sir J. B.
Louis of Battenberg, Prince
Lucas, E. V.
Lusitania
Lutyens, Edwin
Lynch, Colonel
Lyons v. Wilkins (1896)
Lyttelton, Alfred
Lyttelton, R. H.
Lytton, Lady
Macaulay, Lord
MacBride, John
MacCarthy, Desmond
MacDonald, Ramsay
McIntosh, Hugh
McKenna, Reginald
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
MacLaren, A. C.
McNeill, Charles
Mafeking, siege of
Magnus, Sir Phillip
Majority
Mall
Manchester University
Mann, P. H.
Mann, Tom
Manning, Cardinal
Mansbridge, Albert
Maple, Sir Blundell
Marconi contract
Marconi, Guglielmo
Markham, Sir Clements
Marlborough House Set
Married Women’s Property Act (1883)
Marsh, Charlotte
Marshall, Alfred
Marshall, Doctor Eric
Marshall Hall, Sir Edward
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)
Masefield, John; ‘Sea Fever’; The Tragedy of Nan
Mason, W. E.
Massingham, H. W.
Masterman, C. F. G.; The Condition of England
mathematics
Maugham, Somerset
Mauritania (ship)
Mechanics Institutes
Meredith, Billy
Merry Widow, The
Methodism/Methodists
Metropolitan Police
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare)
Mielson, Julia
military reform
Mill, John Stuart
Millbank Housing Estate
Milner, Sir Alfred
miners
Miners’ Federation
Mines Act: (1860); (1908)
mining disasters
Modernism/Modernists
Moir, Gunner
Montague, Charles
Montague, Oliver
Moore, Eva
Moore, G. E.: philosophy; Principa Ethica; Refutation of Idealism
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