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A History of Britain, Volume 3

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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
/>   Morley, John 320

  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
/>   Sibthorp, Col. William 113

  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

 

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