by Simon Schama
Henderson, Hubert 354
Henderson, Sir Nevile 380
Herbert, A. P. 401
Herschel, Sir John 178, 180
Hicks-Beach, Sir Michael 300–1
Hill, Octavia 177, 187
Himmler, Heinrich 376
Hitler, Adolf 365, 373–5, 380–5 passim, 388, 392, 396–7, 399, 401, 402
Hoare, Sir Samuel 378, 381
Hoche, Louis-Lazare 173
Hodson, Major William 253
Home Guard 394, 402, 403
homeless 356
Hong Kong 242, 406, 407, 411, 414
Home Tooke, John 36, 38, 45, 67, 68, 80
Horsley, Terence 358
housing 117, 133, 190, 310–3, 335, 338, 410, 417
in India 216–17
Hume, Allan Octavian 271, 287
Hume, David 19, 20
Hungary 328
Hunt, Henry 101, 102, 107, 135
Huxley, T. H. 309, 342
Hyndman, H. M. 315
Imlay, Gilbert 63–5
immigrants 420–1
Commonwealth – Act 420
India 195–202, 204–21, 235–40, 242–58, 263–73, 287–92, 293, 296, 297, 305, 337, 338, 341, 370–2, 404, 406, 412–3
Amritsar massacre 291, 371
durbars 263–8, 291
famine 198–9, 267–71
Ilbert Bill 287
India Act (1935) 372
mutiny 234, 235–8, 247–55, 256
National Congress 271, 287–90 passim, 370, 371
swaraj movement 289, 290–1
Vernacular Press Act 374
Indian Civil Service 199, 204, 256, 268
industry 360–3, 403, 415, 416 see also individual entries
insurance, social 405 see also unemployment
International Monetary Fund 414
Iran 328, 413
Iraq 328, 338, 340
Ireland 73–4, 76–8, 103, 104, 108, 220–32, 273–4, 277–81, 283–8, 291, 301, 326, 328, 337, 339 see also Northern Ireland; Ulster
Act of Union 77–8, 283
Easter Rising 288, 337
evictions 228–9, 232, 273, 274, 277
famine in 220–32
Home Rule 277, 281, 283–7, 301, 326, 329, 337
IRA 337, 416
land reform 279–80, 284; League 277–80
rebellion 77
‘United Irishmen’ 76, 77
Irwin, Lord 198, 370, 372 see also Halifax
Isandhlwana, battle of 273
Israel 414
Italy 395, 397, 407
James II 38, 42
Japan 352, 530, 532
Jarrow 362
Jefferson, Isaac 143
Jenkins, Roy 407
Jennings, Frank 358
Jex-Blake, Sophia 183
Jews 102, 340, 373, 374, 376, 396, 412, 421
Johnson, Joseph 44–5, 47, 51, 55, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 66, 70, 71, 78
Johnson, Lyndon B. 297
Johnson, Samuel 31, 33
Jones, Thomas 374
Jones, Sir William 213–14
Jordan, J. S. 78
Kay-Shuttleworth, Sir James Phillips 133, 134
Kanpur, siege of 252–4 passim
Kent, Duchess of 120–3 passim, 148, 172
Keynes, John Maynard 354, 365, 387
Khomeini, Ayatollah 328
‘Kilmainham Treaty’ 280
Kipling, Lockwood 266
Rudyard 197, 334
Kirkpatrick, James Achilles 243
Kitchener, Lord 305, 306, 330, 333
Kut el Amara 338
labour 314, 318, 420
child 35
exchanges 318, 321; Act 321
Labour Party/government 315, 336, 353, 356, 365, 389, 390, 408, 409, 410, 411, 418
New 327
ladies of the bedchamber incident 125
Lafayette, General 139, 141
Lake District 56, 84, 98, 108
Lakshmi Bhai, Rani 238, 254
Lal, Shahamat 215
land ownership 36, 223, 225, 308, 309, 322
reform 221–2, 228–9, 278–80
Langham Place Circle 155, 163
language 212–13, 214–15, 292
Laski, Harold 411
Latin America 241
La Touche, Rose 176
Lawrence, Brig.-General, Sir Henry 248–50, 254
Lawrence, Stephen 420
League of Nations 334, 340, 374, 379
Lehzen, Baroness 119, 120, 125
Leitner, G.W. 264
Lenin, Vladimir 340, 348
Leopold, King of Belgians 111, 119, 121, 125, 148
Lever, William Hesketh 311
Lewis, W.Arthur 198
Liberals 260, 261, 274, 276, 277, 283–4, 285, 286, 287, 308, 318, 319, 323, 326, 341
Libya 412
Liddell, Anthony 27–8
Lilburne, John 315
Lindemann, Frederick 368, 377
Lloyd George, David 308, 319–24 passim, 326, 328, 333, 335–6, 341, 377, 395, 399, 403–4
lock-outs 314, 336, 352, 355
London 91, 139–42, 143, 356
Corresponding Society 49, 51, 66–7
East End 313, 315, 356–7, 363, 399, 401
Notting Hill Carnival 420
University 184
London, Jack 356
Lonsdale, Earl of 95
Lords, House of 106–7, 131, 319–24 passim, 404
Louis XVI 38–9, 41, 47, 55, 62
Louis-Philippe 106
Lucknow 240, 243–4, 247–55
La Martinière school 244
Ludd, Ned 92
Luftwaffe 377, 395, 399, 403–4
Lutyens, Edwin 198, 290
Lyell, Sir Charles 114
‘Lyrical Ballads’ 182
Lyttelton, Oliver 386
Lytton, Edward Bulwer-264–6 passim, 268–70
passim, 271, 272, 275
Lytton, Lady Constance 192
Lady Emily 290
Macaulay, Thomas Babington 106, 107, 158, 200–2, 206, 211–14, 217, 218, 232, 238, 260, 286, 292, 295–6, 338, 342, 370, 371
Zachary and Selina 202
MacDonald, Ramsay 353, 365
machinery 114–15, 128–9, 314
Maclnnes, Colin 419
Mackenzie, Henry 20
Macmillan, Harold 297, 387, 405, 410, 414, 415
McNabb, John 235
Mahon, Major Denis 230
Major, John 417
Malaya 412
Malthus, Thomas 207, 221
Manchester 132–5, 137–9 passim, 144, 312
Patriotic Union Society 100
Marie Antoinette 43, 45, 47
Marlborough, Duke of 295, 298, 368, 369
Marochetti, Carlo 172, 192
marriage 159–60, 164–5
Martin, Claude 244
Martineau, Harriet 155
Marx, Karl/Marxists 150, 260, 315
match girls 188–9
Matthew, Rev. Theobald 225
Maudesley, Dr Henry 161
Maxwell, Lily 163
Mayall, John Edwin 147
Maynard, Constance 185
Mearns, Andrew 190
medicine 181–3
Meerut 235, 248
Melbourne, Lord 122–5, 154, 352
Merthyr Tydfil rebellion 106
Mesopotamia 330, 338
metallurgy 313
Middle East 328, 339–41, 411, 412, 414
Mill, James 156–7, 158, 202, 206
John Stuart 155–63, 188, 221–2, 260, 273–4, 288
Millar, John 205
Milton, John ‘Inventor of London’ 111, 116
miners 27, 312, 315, 324
NUM 415
Mitchel, John 231
monarchy 329, 404, 411, 417–8
Mond, Sir Alfred 355
Montefiore, Moses 123
Montgomery, General 534
More, Hannah 61, 155
Moritz, Karl 17
Morrison, Herbert 391, 399, 408, 411
mortality 168–9
Morton, Desmond 368, 377
Morton, Henry Vollam 358, 359–61, 396
In Search of England 358
Mosley, Oswald 365, 398
Mossadeq, Muhammad 435, 413
Muhammad Ahmed, Mahdi 282, 305
Muir, Thomas 49
Munro, Sir Thomas 205, 206
Murray, Gilbert 374
Mussolini, Benito 353, 365, 374, 395, 396
Naoroji, Dabadhai 271
Napier, Sir Charles 132
Napoleon III 196
Nasser, Col. Gamal Abdel 414
national government 365, 390–409
National Health Service 410
nationalism 369, 371, 418–9
nationalization 336, 404, 410, 411, 413, 416–7
natural history 26–9
nature 13–29, 42–3, 53–5, 78–9, 80–5 passim, 423
Navy, Royal 73, 320, 327–30, 341
mutiny 73
Nehru, Motilal 289
Jawaharlal 413
Neill, Col. James 253–3
Nelson, Horatio 88–9
Nicolson, Harold 376, 389, 399
Nightingale, Florence 165–6, 361
Nile, battle of the 88
Northcote, Sir Stafford 233, 300, 301
Northern Ireland/Ulster 77, 284, 301, 326, 328–9, 339–40, 416, 418
Unionists 326, 336–7
Norton, Caroline/George 154
Norwegian blockade 388–90
nuclear deterrent 411
nursing 165
O’Brien, James Bronterre 135
O’Connell, Daniel 103, 104, 105, 107
O’Connor, Arthur 76, 136
O’Connor, Feargus 136–7, 139, 141–2, 143
O’Connor, Thomas Powell 286
O’Dwyer, Michael 291
oil 327, 341, 413
Oliphant, Margaret 175
Oliver, William 100
Olivier, Sydney 317
Omdurman, battle of 305, 319
Operation Barbarossa 406
Overlord 407
Sealion 401
Torch 407
opium 241–2, 324, 347
Orwell, George 343–6, 349, 356, 358, 361–7, 387, 392, 402–3, 411, 422–4
and history 365, 403, 423
Animal Farm 367
Coming Up for Air 386
Down and Out in Paris and London 358, 361
Nineteen Eighty-Four 408, 423
Road to Wigan Pier, The 347, 356, 363–4
Osborne House 147, 152–3
O’Shea, Katherine 280, 281, 283, 285
Oswald, John 158
Ottoman Empire 339
Outram, Sir James 252
Overstone, Baron 181
Overy, Richard 400
Paine, Tom 37, 45, 50, 51, 58, 59, 62–3, 64, 69, 70, 73, 78, 85, 99, 102, 104, 315
Rights of Man 46–7, 50
Palestine 328, 341, 412
Palmerston, Viscount 152, 202, 241, 253, 275
Pande, Mangal 217
Pankhurst, Christabel 325
Emmeline 325
Paris, Peace of 169
Parkes, Bessie Rainer 155, 163, 165
parks 108–9
parliament 131, 233
reform 35–7, 48–9, 90, 103, 105–6, 120, 135–40 passim, 162; Act (1832) 106–7, 133–4, 275, (1867) 144, 174, 260, 319; Bill (1910) 323
Parnell, Charles Stewart 27781, 283, 285, 301
Patmore, Coventry 118, 175
patriotism 87–8, 402
Paxton, Joseph 113, 116
Pearl Harbor, attack on 405
Pearse, Padraig 288
Peel, Robert 106, 124, 125, 141, 150, 152, 222, 225, 228, 232, 260, 275
Pennant, Thomas 13, 14, 15, 16, 29
pensions, old-age/widow 318, 321, 335, 353
Pentridge ‘rising’ 100
Perceval, Spencer 92
Persian Gulf 413
Peterloo massacre 101–2
Pethick-Lawrence, Mrs 326
photography 147–9, 177–81, 255, 257–8
Pitt, William the Younger 37, 51, 66, 68, 69, 71, 73, 74, 78, 86, 89, 97, 328, 369
Plantagenet Ball 126, 127–8
Poland 384, 385
Pollitt, Harry 366
Ponsonby, Sir Frederick 91, 192
Poole, Thomas 81
poor 35, 97–9, 127–8, 133–9, 186–7, 311, 317, 356–8, 360, 365, 416–7
law (1834) 134, 203
population 221, 223
Portland, Duke of 49, 69
Port Sunlight 311
Potsdam Conference 409
Powell, Enoch 419
Pre-Raphaelites 260
Price, Richard 34–6, 38, 39–45 passim
Priestley, J. B. 361–2, 386, 404
Priestley, Joseph 34, 36, 37, 39, 49
Prinsep, Henry Thoby 213
Val 266
prostitution 186, 318
protectionism 313, 318
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore 130–2, 260, 311
Contrasts 130, 131
Punjab 215, 243, 246
Purity League 303
Qadir Ali Shah 240
racism 104, 325, 420
radar 400
radicalism 46–50, 98, 102–5, 203
RAF 399–401
Railton, Rev. David 334
railways 108, 114–15
Ram Mohan Roy, Rajah 210, 214
Ranjit Singh 205, 219, 242
Rawlins, Sophia 60
rearmament 370, 376, 377, 378, 382
reconstruction, post-1918 335
Redmond, John 326, 337
Reeves, John 50
reform 34–8, 99–100, 529–30 see also parliament
refugees 315
relief, famine 226–8, 230, 360–1
religion 33–5, 99, 100, 103, 239–40, 342
Removal of Aliens Act (1848) 140
republicanism 174, 262
revolution 49–50, 66–7, 107, 135–42 passim, 324, 337, 404
‘Glorious’ 36, 38, 40–1, 342
Reynaud, Paul 394
Rhodes, Cecil 270, 306
Ribbentrop, Joachim von 374, 375, 380, 395
Richardson, Reginald 135, 136, 145
riots 29, 68, 92, 106, 107, 324, 325, 337, 420
Ripon, Lord 287
Ritson, Joseph 38
roads, turnpike 15, 108
Roberts, Major-General Frederick 266
Romantics 15–18, 19–60, 78–85 passim
Romney, George 58
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 395, 404, 405–6
Rosebery, Lord 286, 303, 369
Rothermere, Lord 374
Roumelia 275
Rousseau, Jean Jacques 19–20, 22–4, 44, 59, 60, 63, 78
Routh, Randolph 226
Rowntree, Seebohm 311, 317
Rumbold, Sir Horace 373, 376
Ruskin, John 129, 130, 131, 156, 175, 176–7, 183–4, 310, 312
Russell, Bertrand 334
Lord John 107, 140, 152, 162, 174, 222, 225–6, 228, 232
Russell, William Howard 167, 254
Russia 91, 205, 242, 272, 276, 327, 329
Salisbury, Lord 196, 264, 283, 300, 301, 305
Scargill, Arthur 324, 416
Scotland 14, 87, 204–5, 296, 316, 337, 416, 418, 419
Scott, C. P. 382
Scott, Sir George Gilbert 231
Scott, Sir Walter 171, 260
Seacole, Mary 166–7, 168
sedition, measures against 69, 78, 100–2
Seeley, J.R. 195, 293, 296
Sen, Amartya 271
sewerage system 312
Seward, Anna 21
Sharp, Granville 38
Shaw, George Bernard 187, 189, 316–7, 334, 421
Shelburne, Lord 43
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 100, 102
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 37, 51
Siddons, Sarah 45
Sidgwick, Henry 184
Sidmouth, Lord 100, 102
Sims, George 186
Simpson, Mrs 378
Sind 242, 246
Singapore 406, 407
slave trade 34–5, 90
abolition 107, 108
Sleeman, Major Sir William 211, 244
Smith, Barbara Leigh 154, 155, 162
Smith, F. E., Lord Birkenhead 308, 336, 355
Smuts, Jan 338
Snowden, Philip 354, 365
Social Democratic Federation 315
socialism 252, 315, 318, 336, 353, 365, 404, 408, 413, 415
Society for Promotion of Constitutional Information 37, 45, 47
Somalia 412
South Africa 240, 273, 276, 281, 306, 307, 388
Southey, Richard 80
Soviet Union 339, 353, 366, 375, 384, 406
Nazi-Soviet pact 384, 386, 387, 402
Soyer, Alexis 167
Spain 86, 91, 366, 376, 402
Spence, Thomas 35–6, 51, 93, 100
Spring-Rice, Stephen 228
Stalin, Josef 406, 409
Stanley, Lord 262
Stead, W.T. 186, 188, 276, 316
Stein, Burton 198
Stewart, John ‘Walking’ 17–18
Stockmar, Baron Christian von 125, 150
Strachey, Lytton 173
Streicher, Julius 373
strikes 126, 136, 137, 145, 315, 337–9 passim, 352, 355, 389, 408
Stukeley, William 16
Sudan 282, 305–6
Sudetenland 380, 381
Suez Canal 263, 281, 339, 341
crisis 297, 414
suffragette movement 325
Swanwick, Helena 185
Switzerland 80
Taff Vale decision 314, 324
Talavera, battle of 91
tanks 333
tariffs 271, 313
taxation 308, 321 passim, 354
poll 417
Taylor, A.J.P. 383
Taylor, Harriet 155–6, 158–61, 188
Helen 162, 186
Taylor, Philip Meadows 211
Teheran Conference 407
Temple, Sir Richard 269
Tennyson, Lord 172–3, 177, 178, 192, 260
Terry, Ellen 181
Test Acts 35, 37
textiles 272, 311, 313, 318, 352
Thackeray, William Makepeace 115
Thatcher, Margaret 324, 411, 414, 415–7 passim
Thelwall, John 18, 49, 51–2, 67, 68, 80, 83, 86–7
Thicknesse, Philip 29, 31
Thistlewood, Arthur 102
Thomas, D. A. 324
Thomas, J. H. 365
Thomason, James 205, 206, 220
Thompson, George 104
Thornton, William Thomas 221