by A. N. Wilson
Hull, Cordell
Hulme, T.E.
Hungary: armistice (1918)
Hunloke, Sir Philip
Hurricane aircraft
Huxley, Sir Julian
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Hyam, Ronald
Idealism
immigration
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)
Impressionism
In Which We Serve (film)
income tax
raised by Lloyd George
under Labour government
Independent Labour Party
India
achieves independence
British rule in
civil disorder
disobedience campaign in
effect of First World War on
and Empire Exhibition (1924)
Khalifat movement
mass killings in
massacres at partition
nationalist movement in
partition
reform
and threat from Middle East
USA demands indpendence for
Indian Civil Service
inflation
influenza epidemic (post-1918)
Inge, William Ralph, Dean of St Paul’s
Inglis, Rob
Innés, Michael (i.e. J.I.M. Stewart)
internal combustion engine
Iraq
anti-British revolt (1920)
bombed (2004)
British presence in
crisis in (2004)
founded
and German railway construction
Ireland
achieves independence
British in
civil war (‘the Troubles’) and partition
Easter Rising (1916)
and First World War
George V on
Unionists in
see also Home Rule
Irish Land Purchase Act (1903)
Irish Republican Brotherhood/Irish Republican Army
Iron Curtain
Isaacs, Godfrey
Isaacs, Harry
Isaacs, Sir Rufus (later 1st Marquess of Reading)
and Marconi scandal
and National Government
Isbistern, James
Islam
and defeat of Ottoman Empire
in India
resistance to West
Ismay, General Sir Hastings
Italy
invades Abyssinia
killings at war’s end
in North African campaign
Welles aims to persuade to remain neutral
ITMA (radio programme)
Ivy Restaurant, London
Jaeger, Gustav
James, Henry
beliefs
British citizenship
on death of Queen Victoria
James, Henry (cont.)
decline and death
distaste for USA
and First World War
on Kipling
life in Europe
masterpieces
in Rye, Sussex
and T.S. Eliot
The Ambassadors
The Awkward Age
The Golden Bowl
The Portrait of a Lady
What Maisie Knew
James, Montague Rhodes
James, William
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Jameson raid (1895)
Japan
atom bombed
attacks Pearl Harbor
captures Singapore
Churchill discounts as threat
cultural traditions
dominance in Far East
industrialization
invades Manchuria
in Second World War
surrenders (1945)
war with Russia (1904–5)
Jarrett, Bede
Jarrow, Co. Durham
Jastrow, Maurice
jazz
Jekyll, Gertrude
Jellicoe, Revd Basil
Jellicoe, Admiral John Rushworth, 1st Earl
Jenkins, Roy, Baron
Jenkinson, Revd Charles
Jennings, Blanche
Jephson, Morris
Jerusalem
anti-Jewish immigrant demonstrations
Jewish terrorist acts in
Jesus Christ
Jews
and circumcision
in concentration camps
emigrate from Germany
German repression of
as immigrants
immigration in Palestine
Kaiser’s hostility to
massacred by Nazis
Palestine immigration opposed
persecuted in Europe
population in Britain
Pound attacks
scientists
seek homeland
Truman’s views on
in Wales
and Zionism
Jex-Blake, Sophia
Jinnah, Muhammad Ali
Joad, C.E.M.
Joffre, General Joseph
John, Augustus
John, Gwen
Johnson, Hewlett, Dean of Canterbury
Jones, David
Jones, Thomas
Joplin, Scott
Jowett, Benjamin
Joy, Maurice
Joyce, Hazel (née Barr)
Joyce, Heather
Joyce, James
Joyce, Alargaret (née Collins)
Joyce, William (‘Lord Haw-Haw’)
Joynson-Hicks, William (1st Viscount Brentford)
Juan Carlos, King of Spain
Juliana, Princess (later Queen) of Netherlands
Junner, Sarah (T.E. Lawrence’s mother)
Jutland, Battle of (1916)
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst
Karl I, Emperor of Austria
Kashmir
Kavanagh, Ted
Kedleston (house), Derbyshire
Keitel, Wilhelm
Keller, Hans
Kelly, HAIS
Kemal, Mustafa (Ataturk)
Kemp, Peter
Kendall, Captain (of Montrose)
Kendall, M.
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Joseph
Kennedy, (Sir) Ludovic
Kenney, Annie
Kenny, Mary
Kent, Prince George, Duke of
Keppel, Alice
Keppel, George
Keppel, Sonia
Kerensky, Alexander
Kesselring, Field Marshal Albert
Keynes, John Maynard, Baron
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Khartoum
Kimball, Warren F.
Kingsmill, Hugh
Kipling, Carrie (née Balestier)
Kipling, Rudyard
and Baldwin
Chesterton opposes
death, cremation and interment
marriage
supports Dyer
view of Empire
Kint
‘The Lesson’
‘Recessional’
‘The White Man’s Burden’
Kistiakowsky, George
Kitchener, Field Marshal Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl
as Commander-in-Chief in India
and conduct of First World War
and outbreak of First World War
in South African War
Klemperer, Viktor
Knox, Dilly
Knox, E.V.
Knox, Ronald
Knox, Wilfrid
Koch, Ilse
Koch, Karl
Kristallnacht (Germany)
Kropotkin, Prince Peter
Kruger, Paul
Krupp factory, Essen
Krupp von Bohlen, Alfried
Kurti, Nicolas
Kuwait: proposed German railway to
Labour Party
administration and policy
election victory (1945)
forms
first government
funding
gains in 1924 election
loses 1951 election
membership numbers
moderation
rise of
second government (1929)
and the Webbs
Laconia (liner)
Lal, Madan
Lancashire: cotton trade
landowners
Lang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of
Canterbury
Langhorne, Chiswell Dabney
Langtoft, Peter: Chronicle (1307)
Langtry, Lillie
Lansbury, George
Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of
Larmor, Joseph
Laurel, Stan and Oliver Hardy
Laval, Pierre
law: women study for
Law, Andrew Bonar
Lawrence, D.H.
background
on changing world
on Daisy Lord case
and Englishness
and Frieda Weekley
Orwell approves
as writer
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
The Rainbow
Sons and Lovers
Lawrence, Frieda (née von Richthofen; then Weekley)
Lawrence, Sir Geoffrey
Lawrence, George
Lawrence, Gertrude
Lawrence, T.E. (‘Lawrence of Arabia’)
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
League of Nations
founded
weakness
Lebanon
Lee, Jennie (later Baroness)
Lee, Kate
Lee, Manfred Bennington
Leeds
Leigh-Smith, Barbara
Leiter, Levi
Lend Lease (US-British)
LeNeve, Ethel Clara
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich
addresses 1907 Social Democratic congress in Whitechapel
benefits from First World War
on exercise of power
leaves Zurich for Russia (1917)
orders killing of Romanovs
Ransome on
Russell praises
socialism
Leningrad, siege of (1941–4)
Leno, Dan
le Queux, William: The Invasion of 1910
Leuba, James Henry
Lever Brothers (company)
Leverhulme, William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount
Levi, Primo
Lewis, Clive Staples
despises Nuffield
religious belief
Studies in Words
Lewis, John L.
Lewis, Kid
Lewis, Percy Wyndham
Lewis, Major W.H.
Leyds, Dr
Lhasa, Tibet
Liberal Party
in 1910 election
and Chinese labour in Africa
colonial policy
decline
and Irish Home Rule
landslide victory (1906) and administration
loses office following 1924 election
loses second 1924 election
and reduced power of Lords
status
and women’s suffrage
liberalism
Libya: campaign in Second World War
Lichnowsky, Karl, Prince
Liebknecht, Karl
Lilienthal, Otto
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, Charles A., Jr
Lindemann, Frederick (later 1st Viscount Cherwell; ‘the Prof’)
Linton-Orman, Rotha
Lipton, Sir Thomas
literature: modernist movement
Lithuania: independence
Litvinov, Maxim
Liverpool
cathedral
town planning
living standards: Edwardian
Lloyd George, David (later 1st Earl)
adultery
advocates hanging Kaiser
on armistice (1918)
background and career
Baldwin’s rivalry with
Beaverbrook supports
budgets as Chancellor of Exchequer
builds battle tanks
Churchill disparages
Churchill serves under
and Churchill’s Iraq policy
on conduct of First World War
disagreements with George V
dominance
economic ideas
and fate of Tsar Nicholas II
and Irish troubles
and Jews
and Kenia 1 Atatürk
leadership
leads Peace Party
and Marconi scandal
Northcliffe supports as Prime Minister
Northcliffe’s enmity towards
on overthrow of Hohenzollerns
and peace settlement (1919)
and post-1918 coalition government
praises Hitler
private life
and protectionism
radicalism
relations with George V
religious ideas
on Russian revolution
and sale of honours
and second 1924 election defeat
sends Bruce Lockhart to Russia
succeeds Asquith as wartime Prime Minister
and US support in First World War
wartime posts
Lock Hospital for Venereal Disease
Locke, John
Lockhart, Robert Bruce
Logical Positivism
Loisy, Abbé Alfred Firmin
London
bombed in Second World War
population and housing
poverty in
royal residences
London, Bishop of see Winnington-Ingram Arthur Foley
London Calling (revue)
London, Perceval
London School of Economics
London School of Medicine for Women
Longford, Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of
Loomis, Alfred Lee
Loos, Adolf
Lopokova, Lydia
Lord Chamberlain
Lord, Daisy
Lord, Walter: A Night to Remember
Lords, House of
Churchill proposes abolition
power reduced
rejects Lloyd George’s budget
survival
Lorenz, Hendrik Antoon
Los Alamos
Loss, Joe
Lothian, Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquess of
Louis Ferdinand, Prince
Ludendorff, General Erich von
Luftwaffe (German Air Force)
Lugard, Frederick, Baron
Lunn, Arnold
Lusitania (liner)
Lutyens, Sir Edward
collaborates with Gertrude Jekyll
designs Queen Mary’s Doll’s House
and imperialism
marriage
Lutyens, Lady Emily
Lyell, Sir Charles
Lynn, (Dame) Vera
Lynne, Sharon
McAlpine, Sir Robert and Sons
MacArthur, General Douglas
Macaulay, Dame Rose
Letters
The World My Wilderness
MacBride, John
MacCarthy, (Sir) Desmond
McCloy, John J.
MacDonagh, Thomas, in
Macdonald, Brigadier-General James
MacDonald, James
MacDonald, James Ramsay
first Labour government
heads second Labour government (1929)
and National Governments
premiership
qualities
Macdonald, W.A.
McGill, Donald
Machiavelli, Niccolò
machine guns
MacIntyre, Patrick
Mackensen, Generalfeldmarschal August von
Mac Liammoir, Micheál
McNabb, Vincent
&n
bsp; Macready, General Sir Nevil
MacSwiney, Terence
McTaggart, Ellis
magnetron
Mahan, Alfred: The Influence of Sea Power upon History
Malthus, Thomas
Malthusian League
Man, Isle of: wartime internments on
Manchester: and free trade
Manchuria
Manet and the Post-Impressionists (exhibition, 1910)
Mann, Heinrich: Der Untertan
Mantoux, Etienne: The Carthaginian Peace
Mao Zedong
Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo
Marconi scandal (1912)
Margaret Rose, Princess
Marinetti, Filippo
Marlborough, John Winston Spencer
Churchill, 6th Duke of
marriage
and adultery
as institution
Married Women’s Property Act (1882)
Marsden, Ernest
Marsh, Sir Edward
Marsh, Dame Ngaio
Marshall Aid
Marshall, General George Catlett
Marston, John, Ltd
Marx, Karl
Mary, Queen of George VI (earlier Princess of Wales)
age at husband’s death
background and upbringing
Doll’s House
and Edward VIII’s abdication
in India
pride in son Edward
qualities
Maryon-Wilson, Percy
Mass Observation
Masterman, C.F.G.
Matchmakers’ Union
Mathias, Mrs Robert
Maud, Queen of Norway
Maude, Aylmer
Maufe, Edward
Maugham, W Somerset
Maurras, Charles
Max, Prince of Baden
Maxim, Sir Hiram
Maxwell, James Clerk
Maybach, Wilhelm
Mayhew, Christopher
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Augusta Caroline, Grand Duchess of
Mediterranean: in Second World War
Meinertzhagen, Colonel Richard
Meir, Golda
Meitner, Lise
Melba, Dame Nellie
Melody Maker (magazine)
Memel
Mendel, Gregor
Menuhin, Yehudi
Meyrick, Kate (‘Ma’)
middle class: in General Strike
Middle East
Franco-British control of
German railways in
oil reserves
post-1918 settlement
Mikardo, Ian
Mill, John Stuart
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Glenn
Miller, Al.
Milne, A.A.
Milyukov, P.N.
Minkowski, Hermann
Minto, Gilbert Elliot, 4th Earl of
Mirrielees, Frederick and Margaret
Mitford, Nancy
Moat, Henry
Modern Churchman’s Union
modernism
in arts
literary
Molotov, Vyacheslav AL
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (1939)
monarchy
absolutism ends
constitutional
lifestyle
and popular feeling
role
under threat
Mond, Sir Alfred Moritz (later 1st Baron Melchett)
Monk, Ray
Monnet, Jean
Monro, Harold
Montacute House, Somerset
Montagu, Edwin
Montgomery, General Sir Bernard Law (later Field Marshal 1st Viscount)
Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, xii
Montrose, SS