Moore, Sturge
Morant, Robert
Mordaunt divorce case
Morley, John
Morning Leader
Morning Post
Morocco
Morris, William
Moss, Edward
motor car
Muller, Iwan
Mulock, George
Municipal and General Workers’ Union
murder trials
Murphy, William Walter
Murray, Gilbert
Murray, James
Murray, Sir George
music/musicians
musical comedy
National Council of Labour Colleges
National Free Labour Association
National Gallery
national insurance
National Insurance Bill
National Union of Conservative Associations
National Union of Dock Labourers
National Union of Railwaymen
National Union of Teachers
National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies
Navy
Navy League
Nesbit, E.
Neville, Lady Dorothy
New, Edith
New Journalism
New Unionism
Newbolt, Sir Henry; ‘Vitaï Lampada’
Newcastle Programme
Newman, John Henry
Newnes, George
newspapers , see also individual titles; Northcliffe, Viscount
Nicholson, Sir Charles
Nicolson, Harold
Noel Baker, Philip
Norddeutscher Lloyd
Northcliffe, Viscount (Alfred Harmsworth); and aviation; and Chamberlain; and Daily Mail; and Evening News; and First World War; and Garvin; and Lloyd George; and Observer; and tariff reform; and The Times
Northumberland, Duke of
Oates, Captain L. E. G.
Observer
Oceanic Navigation Company
O’Connor, T. P.
Old Age Pensions Bill
Olympic
Olympic Games: (1900); (1908) (London)
Onslow, Lord
Orange Lodges
Order of the Garter
Order of Merit
Osborne Judgement
Osborne, W. V.
Otton, Nickolas August
Owen, Wilfred
Oxford University
Paget, General Sir Arthur
Pain, Colonel Hacket
Pall Mall Gazette
Pankhurst, Adela
Pankhurst, Christabel; and Hyde Park demonstration; imprisonments; leaves London for Paris; relationship with Esther Roper and Eva Gore-Booth; resignation from ILP and Labour Party; and WSPU
Pankhurst, Emmeline; formation of WSPU; and ILP; imprisonments; resigns Labour Party membership
Pankhurst, Harry
Pankhurst, Richard
Pankhurst, Sylvia
Parnell, Charles Stewart
Parratt, Sir Walter
Parry, Hubert
Parsons, Charles Algernon
Paulhan, Louis
Payne, B. Iden
Pearson, C. Arthur
Peary, Commander Robert
peerages
pensions
People
People’s Budget see budgets (1909)
Persia, Shah of
Pethick-Lawrences
physicists/physics
Piele, Canon J. J. E.
Pietri, Durando
Pinero, Arthur Wing; Mid-Channel
Pinker, J. B.
Playboy of the Western World, The
Plural Voting Bill (1906)
Poel, William
poets/poetry see also individual names
police
Police Gazette
Ponsonby, Frederic
poor
Poor Law: Royal Commission on
Poor Law Act (1834)
Poor Law Guardians
population
Post-Impressionism
Potter, Beatrix
Pound, Ezra
poverty
Poverty, a Study in Town Life
Pratt, E. A.
Pre-Raphaelites
Press Cuttings
prisons
‘provided schools’
Prussia
Public Schools’ Act (1868)
Queen Anne style
Queen for a Wife, A
Queensbury, Marquis of
Quelch, Henry
Quinn v. Leathem
racing
Railway Servants Society
railways
Rashid, Hastings
Ratcliffe, Sir Everard
Rational Dress Society
Read, James C.
Redford, S. A.
Redmond, John
Reeves, Maud P.
religion; church attendance; need for reconciliation of faith and reason; rise of secularism and effect; Russell on; undermining of by science; see also Church of England; Roman Catholic Church
Review of Reviews, The
Reynolds, Stephen: A Poor Man’s House
Rhodes, Cecil John
Rhodes, Wilfred
Richardson, General Sir George
Richtoven, Frieda von
Rickards, E. A.
Ridley, Lord
Ripon Hall
Ritchie, Sir Charles
Ritz Hotel
Roberts, Lord
Robertson, Mrs Gordon
Robinson, Armitage
Roe, Grace
Rogers, W. S.
Rolls, Charles
Rolls-Royce
Roman Catholic Church see also Anglo-Catholics
Roosevelt, President Theodore
Roper, Esther
Rosebery, Lord
Ross, Robert
Ross, Ronald
Rothenstein, William
Rowntree, Benjamin Seebohm
Royal Academy
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Royal Aero Club
Royal Commission on the Aged Poor
Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline
Royal Commission on Housing the Working Classes
Royal Commission on Physical Training in Scotland
Royal Commission on the Poor Law
Royal Court Theatre
Royal Geographical Society
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Royce, Henry
Royds, Charles
rugby
Ruggles-Brise, Evelyn
Ruskin College (Oxford)
Russell, Bertrand; Principa Mathematica
Russia
Rutherford, Ernest
Rutland, Duke of
Rutter, Frank
Sackville Gallery
Sackville-West, Vita: The Edwardians
Sadler, Michael Ernest
Sailors’ Union
St Louis International Exhibition
Salford Women’s Trade Council
Salisbury, Lord
Salvation Army
Samuel, Herbert
Sandars, John
Sandy, William
Santos-Dumont, Alberto
Sargent, John Singer
Sassoon, Siegfried; Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
Schlieffen, Count
Schlieffen Plan
school boards
schools see also education
Schweitzer, Albert: The Quest of the Historical Jesus
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Scott, C. P.
Scott, Giles Gilbert
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Scottish Education Act (1902)
Scottish Local Government Act
Scottish Repertory Theatre
Scout, The
Seckendorff, Count Gotz von
Secular Edu
cation League
Seddon, Frederick
Seeley, James
Selborne, Lord
Serbia
Shackleton, Ernest; and Antarctic expedition (1901–03); awards; background; expedition (1907); expedition across the South Polar Continent (1913); expedition to Antarctic (1907–08); and Scott
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard; campaign to end theatre censorship; The Doctor’s Dilemma; John Bull’s Other Island; Lady Epping’s Lawsuit; Major Barbara; Man and Superman; Mrs Warren’s Profession; political activist; Pygmalion; The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet
Sheffield University
ships/shipbuilding
Shipwrights Union
shooting
Shops Bill
Sickert, Walter
Sidney Street siege (1911)
Sign of the Cross, The
Silver King, The
Silver, Pamela: The Education of the Poor
Sinn Fein
Skelton, Lieutenant Reginald
Sloan, Tod
Smillie, Robert
Smith
Smith, F. E.
Smith, Hubert Llewellyn
Smuts, Jan Christian
Smythe, Ethel
Snoddy, Frederick
Snowden, Philip
soap-trust
Social Democratic Federation
social insurance
social surveys
Society of Friends
Society of Railway Servants
‘Solemn League and Covenant to Resist Home Rule’
Sorel, George
South Africa see also Boer War
South Africa Company
South Pole see Antarctic
South Wales Miners’ Federation
Spencer, Lord
Spilsbury, Sir Bernard
Spithead Review
sport see also individual sports
Sprigge, H.
Standing, P. C.
Stanley, Venetia
Star
Stead, W. T.
steel industry
Stein, Marc Aurel
Stoll, Oswald
Strachey, Lytton
Street Betting Act
Styne, President
Sudan
suffrage: ILP and extension of; and women see women’s suffrage
suffragettes; campaign of destruction and vandalism; hunger strikes by and forced feeding; imprisonment; movement from politics to direct action; protests and demonstrations; sympathy for ‘brutally treated’
sweated industries
Synge, J. M.: The Playboy of the Western World; Riders to the Sea
Taff Vale Judgement
Taff Vale Railway Company
tariff reform
Tariff Reform League
tariffs; corn
Tawney, R. H.
teachers
Temple, William
tennis
Tennyson, Lord
Terra Nova
Terry, Ellen
theatre; censorship and campaign to end; and drawing room setting; musical comedy; number of provincial theatres; reflection of national life; and Scotland; and Shakespeare’s plays; star actresses/actors; system of actor management; and theatrical impresario; see also individual playwrights
Theatres Act (1843)
Thompson, J. P.
Thorne, Will
Tibet
Tillett, Ben
Tilley, Vesta
Times, The
Tirpitz, Admiral Alfred von
Tit-Bits
Titanic
Tonypandy riots (1909)
Tory Party
Tracy, Louis
trade , see also free trade; tariffs
Trade Board Bill
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Trades Dispute Act
Trades Union Acts
Trades Union Congress see TUC
tramways, electric
Tranby Croft Affair
transport see also motor car; railways; ships/shipbuilding; tramways, electric
Tree, Beerbohm see Beerbohm Tree, Sir Herbert/Henry
Treves, Sir Frederick
Tribune
Troup, Sir Edward
TUC (Trades Union Congress)
Turbina
Turkey
Tweedsmuir, Lord
tyres
Uitlanders
Ulster Defence Associations
Ulster Unionist Council
Ulster Unionists
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Unemployed Workmen’s Act (1905)
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Unemployment Workers Bill
United Irishman
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Unwin, Raymond
urbanisation
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Vereeniging, Treaty of (1902)
Vickers
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Victoria University
Von Bulow, Count
Vorticist group
Votes for Women
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Voysey, C. F. A.
wages
Wallace, Edgar
Walter, Arthur
Warner, Sir Pelham (‘Plum’)
warships; and Dreadnought
Warwick, Daisy
Waterhouse, Alfred
Watts, Phillip
Webb, Beatrice
Webb, Sidney
Webb, Sir Aston
Wells, Billy
Wells, H. G.; Ann Veronica; Tono-Bungay
Wells, William
Westminster Cathedral
Westminster, Duke of
What Every Woman Knows
White, Sir Archibald
Whitehead, Alfred
Wild, Frank
Wilde, Oscar
Wilhelm II, Kaiser
Williams, Ralph Vaughan
Willie, Alexander
Wilson, Arthur
Wilson Barrett touring company
Wilson, Edward
Wilson, Lady Sarah
Wilson, President Woodrow
Wilson, Sir Henry
wireless telegraphy
Wolseley
women; and dress; and employment; and literature; New; and sport; and universities; and voting see women’s suffrage; working class
Women’s Co-operative Guild
Women’s Freedom League
Women’s Local Government Society (WLGS)
Women’s Social and Political Union see WSPU
women’s suffrage; attitude towards by Asquith; campaign of violence and moral intimidation; and Conciliation Bill; growth in popularity of and support; hunger strikes by suffragettes and forced feeding of; Hyde Park demonstration (1908); and ILP; peaceful activities; and press; protests and demonstrations by suffragists; see also Pankhursts
Wood, Henry
Woolf, Virginia
Workers’ Educational Association (WEA)
workhouses
working class; and education; and sport
Wortley, Colonel Edward Montagu Stuart
Wright Brothers
WSPU (Women’s Social and Political Union)
Yeats, William Butler; The Shadowy Waters
York
Younghusband, Colonel Sir Francis
Zangwill, Israel<
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NON-FICTION
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Goodbye to Yorkshire
Politics Apart
Endpiece Revisited
Press Gang
A Yorkshire Boyhood
Choose Freedom
Between Ourselves
Who Goes Home?
Fifty Years On
Buster’s Diaries
Blood and Fire
A Brand from the Burning
FICTION
The Maker’s Mark
In That Quiet Earth
Skylark Song
ROY HATTERSLEY is a former deputy leader of the Labour Party and former Cabinet minister. He stood down as a Member of Parliament in 1997 and has been a member of the House of Lords. He has written biographies of Nelson, William and Catherine Booth, John Wesley, and a history of twentieth-century Britain. He has also written three novels. You can sign up for author updates here.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Hope and Glory
Part One: ‘Anxieties for England’
1 A Cloud Across the Sun
2 The Spirit of the Age
3 The Powers Behind the Throne
4 The Condition of England
Part Two: ‘Enough of this Tomfoolery’
5 Unfinished Business
6 A Preference for Empire
7 Uniting the Nation
8 Who Shall Rule?
Part Three: ‘The Force Majeure which Activates and Arms’
9 Ourselves Alone
10 Votes for Women!
11 United We Stand
12 Useful Members of the Community
Part Four: ‘Everybody Got Down off their Stilts’
13 Ideas Enter the Drawing Room
14 Literature Comes Home
15 The End of Innocence
16 Gerontius Awakes
Part Five: ‘Full of Energy and Purpose’
17 Would You Believe It?
18 Hardihood, Endurance and Courage
19 Halfpenny Dreadful
20 The Shape of Things to Come
Epilogue: The Summer Ends in August
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
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