social welfare and 1, 2
taxation and 1
voting (political franchise) and 1, 2
in Wales 1
consumerism 1, 2, 3–9, 4, 5, 6, 7–9, 8, , 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
television and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Contagious Diseases Acts (1864, 1866, 1869) 1
Cookson, Catherine 1
Costain, Richard 1
Cottrell, Stephen 1
Countryside Commission 1
Countryside and Rights of Way Act (2000) 1
County and Borough Police Act (1856) 1
Coward, Noël 1
Cresy, Edward 1
Crimea War (1853–4) 1
Crofters’ Holding Act (1886) 1
Crosland, Anthony 1
Czechoslovakia 1
Darwin, Charles 1, 2
Davies, John 1
de-industrialization 1, 2, 3
Dean, James 1
Defence of the Realm Act (1914) 1
Defence White Paper (2003) 1
Definition of Time Act (1880) 1
Democratic Unionist Party 1
democratization 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Derby, Edward, 14th Earl 1
Dickens, Charles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
disease 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Disraeli, Benjamin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Divorce Reform Act (1969) 1, 2
Dominions 1, 2, 3, 4
Douglas-Home, Sir Alec 1, 2
Douglas-Home, William 1
Downing Street Declaration (1993) 1
Du Maurier, Daphne 1
Eastlake, Sir Charles 1
economy
change to service economy 1, 2, 3
class structure and 1, 2, 3
Crisis (1929–31) 1, 2
free trade 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
international status 1, 2
National Debt 1
recession (2008–9) 1
sterling 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
transfer payments 1
see also taxation Eden, Anthony 1, 2, 3
education 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7–4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Education Acts (1870, 1918, 1944, 1988, 1992) 1, 2, 3, 4,
Edward VII, King 1, 2
Edward VIII, King 1
EEC/EU see European Economic Community/Union)
egalitarianism 1
electricity 1, 2, 3–1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Elgar, Edward 1, 2, 3, 4
Eliot, George 1, 2
Elizabeth II, Queen 1, 2
Elswick Ordnance Company 1
Emergency Powers (Defence) Act (1940) 1
energy resources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
‘Englishness’ 1, 2
see also ‘Britishness’; nationalism
Environment, Department of 1
environmental issues 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Equal Citizenship, National Union of Societies for 1
Equal Pay Act (1970) 1
European influence on Britain 1
European Economic Community/Union (EEC/EU) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7, 7, 8–6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
European Free Trade Association (EFTA) 1
factories 1, 2, 3
Factory Acts (1860, 1874) 1
Falklands War (1982) 1, 2, 3, 4
fascism 1, 2
Fawcett, Millicent 1
Festival of Britain (1951) 1
fiction 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
First World War, (1914–18) 1, 2, 3, 4–43, 5, 6
see also Second World War
Fleming, Alexander 1
food and drink 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Foot, Michael 1
Football Association 1
foreign policy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
see also British Empire; Commonwealth
Foster, Myles 1
France 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11–14
free trade 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Friends of the Earth 1
Gaitskell, Hugh 1, 2, 3, 4
Gaskell, Elizabeth 1
Geddes, Sir Eric 1, 2
gender issues 1
General Strike (1926) 1
George VI, King 1
Germany 1, 2, 3, 4, 5–42, 6
Second World War and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Gilbert and Sullivan 1, 2
Gissing, George 1
Gladstone, William 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Glasgow 1
Good Friday Agreement (1998) 1, 2
Government of India Acts (1919, 1935) 1, 2
Graham, Billy 1, 2
Grainger, Percy 1
Great Exhibition (1851) 1
Greater London Council (GLC) 1
Green Belt (London and Home Counties) Act (1938) 1
Green, John Richard 1
Green Party 1
Greenpeace 1
Greenwood, Walter 1
‘Greenwood’ Housing Act (1930) 1
Gulf Wars (1991, 2003) 1, 2
Hague, William 1
Hardy, Thomas 1, 2, 3
Harris, Augustus 1
Havelock, Henry 1
Hawtrey, Charles 1
health and medicine
advances in 1, 2, 3
comparison with United States 1
life expectancy 1, 2
mental health 1, 2
National Health Service (NHS) 1, 2, 3
social welfare and 1, 2, 3
see also public health
Heath, Edward 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Henderson, Arthur 1, 2
Henty, G.A. 1
‘heritage industry’ 1
Hindus 1
Holidays with Pay Act (1938) 1
Holtby, Winifred 1
Home Government Association 1
Home Rule Bill (1914) 1
Home Rule League 1
Hore-Belisha, Leslie 1
housing
pre-1930s 1, 2, 3, 4
the thirties onwards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Housing Act (1980) 1
Housing and Town Planning Act (1919) 1
Human Rights Act (1998) 1
Hunt, William Holman 1
Hunting Act (2004) 1
Huntley and Palmer 1
Huxley, Aldous 1
immigration 1, 2, 3, 4, 5–5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Imperial Trade Preference (1932) 1
imperialism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
India
immigration from 1
independence 1, 2, 3, 4
India Act (1858) 1
Indian Mutiny (1857–9) 1, 2, 3
influences 1
as part of British Empire 1, 2, 3, 4
Industrial Relations Act (1971) 1
industrialization 1
Industry Act (1972) 1
Infant Life Preservation Act (1929) 1
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 1, 2
Iraq 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ireland
Irish Local Government Act (1898)
migration to England and Wales 1, 2, 3, 4
nationalism (Home Rule) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
urbanization 1
see also Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army (IRA) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
ITV (independent television channel) 1
Jagger, Mick 1
James, P.D. 1
Japan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8–20, 9, 10, 11
Jarrow March (1936) 1
Jenkins, David (bp. of Durham) 1
Jenkins, Roy 1
Jews 1, 2, 3
Johns, Captain W.E. 1
Kelvin, William, 1st Baron of Largs 1
Kennington, Thomas 1
Keynes, John Maynard 1
Kingsley, Charles 1
Kipling, Rudyard 1, 2
Kyoto Protocol (1997) 1
labour conditions 1, 2
Labour Party
class structure and 1, 2, 3
communism and 1
European integration and 1, 2, 3
Falklands War and 1
First World War 1
formation 1
immigration and 1
leaderships:
Gordon Brown 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Harold Wilson 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
James Callaghan 1, 2
Ramsay MacDonald 1, 2, 3
Tony Blair 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11–4, 12–10
Liberalism and 1, 2, 3
Second World War and
aftermath 1, 2, 3, 4
social welfare and 1, 2
‘Thatcher Years’ and 1
in Wales 1, 2
Labour relations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Laing, John 1
‘Land of Hope and Glory’ (Benson) 1
Land League 1
landscape 1, 2, 3, 4
Landseer, Edwin 1
Lansbury, George 1
Lavers, G.R. 1
Law, Andrew Bonar 1, 2
Lawrence, D.H. 1, 2
leisure pursuits
cinemas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–5, 7–50, 8
consumerism and 1
dance halls 1
holidays 1, 2, 3
middle-classes 1, 2, 3, 4
music halls and theatre 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
regulation of 1, 2
science 1
sports and outdoor pursuits 1, 2, 3, 4
Lewis, C.S. 1
Liberal Democrats 1
Liberalism
1924 Election 1
class structure and 1, 2, 3
First World War 1
Labour Party and 1, 2, 3
Lloyd George leadership 1, 2, 3, 4–9, 5–5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
religion and 1, 2, 3
Second World War and aftermath 1
social welfare and 1, 2, 3
voting reform and 1, 2
in Wales 1, 2
libraries and reading rooms 1, 2, 3
Licensing Act (1872) 1
Lipton, Thomas 1
Lisbon Treaty (2007) 1
Liverpool 1
Livingstone, Ken 1
Lloyd George, David 1, 2, 3, 4–9, 5–5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Lloyd, Marie 1
Local Government Acts (1888, 1972) 1
London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
political and economic role 1, 2, 3
population 1
public health and 1, 2, 3, 4
London Docklands Development Corporation 1
London Green Belt Act (1959) 1
London Passenger Transport Board 1
Lubetkin, Berthold 1
Lytton, Edward Bulwer 1
Maastricht Agreement (1991) 1
MacDonald, Ramsay 1, 2, 3
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie 1
Maclise, Daniel 1
Macmillan, Harold 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Major, John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Manchester 1, 2, 3
Mandelson, Peter 1
Manson, James Bolivar 1
Marks and Spencer 1
marriage and divorce 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Marx, Karl 1
Mason, Sir Josiah 1
mass-production 1, 2, 3
Maternity and Child Welfare Act (1918) 1
Maxwell, James Clerk 1
merchant shipping 1
Metaliferous Mines Acts (1872, 1875) 1
Metropolitan Water Act (1852) 1
Middle East 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
middle-classes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
cultural expression 1, 2
leisure pursuits 1, 2, 3, 4
politics and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
public health and 1, 2, 3
rise of suburbia and 1
see also class structure; working-classes
Midwives Act (1902) 1, 2
migration 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11–80, 12
Military Service Act (1916) 1
Millais, John Everett 1
Milner, Alfred 1
Mines Regulation Act (1908) 1
Modernism 1, 2, 3, 4
‘modernization’ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
monarchy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Moore, Henry 1
Morris, William 1, 2
Morton, Charles 1
Mosley, Sir Oswald 1, 2, 3
Mother’s Union 1
motor cars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–8, 7, 8
multiculturalism 1, 2, 3, 4
Munich Agreement (1938) 1, 2, 3
museums 1, 2, 3
music 1, 2, 3, 4
the Church and 1
music halls 1, 2, 3
patriotism and 1, 2
popular 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
traditional 1, 2
Muslims 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
National Children’s Home 1
National Electricity Scheme 1
National Insurance Acts (1911, 1946) 1, 2, 3, 4
National Parks Commission 1
National Plan (1965) 1
National Trust 1, 2
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) 1, 2
nationalism
Conservative Party and 1, 2, 3
declining distinctiveness and 1
devolution and 1, 2, 3
identity through victory 1
Ireland 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
regionalism (‘sense of place’) and 1, 2
rural leisure pursuits and 1, 2
Scotland 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Wales 1, 2, 3, 4
see also ‘Britishness’; ‘Englishness’
Naval Defence Act (1889) 1
‘New Elite’ 1
New Towns Act (1946) 1
New Zealand 1
Newbolt, Henry 1
newspapers and the press 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
NHS (Family Planning) Act (1967) 1
Nonconformity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Northern Ireland 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
see also Ireland; Scotland; Wales
Norwood Report (1943) 1
Offences Against the Person Act (1861) 1
O’Neill, Captain Terence 1
Orwell, George 1, 2, 3
Osborne, John 1
Owen, Wilfred 1, 2
Palmerston, Henry, 3rd Viscount 1, 2
Pankhurst, Emmeline and Christabel 1
Parliament Act (1911) 1
Parnell, Charles 1
Parry, Sir Hubert 1
patriotism 1, 2, 3
Paxton, Joseph 1
Pinero, Arthur Wing 1, 2
Plimsoll, Samuel 1
poetry 1, 2
Poland 1, 2, 3
police force 1, 2, 3, 4
Political and Economic Planning (pressure group) 1
politics
the twenties 1
National Government (1931) 1, 2, 3
National Government (1940) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
the forties to sixties 1
the sixties to seventies 1, 2
‘Thatcher Years’ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
modern Britain 1
accountability and rights 1
class structure and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 78, 9, 10, 11
coalition governments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
culture and society and 1
extremism 1, 2
growth of press and 1
morality and 1, 2
privatization and nationalization 1
radicalism 1, 2, 3, 4
voting (political franchise) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
see also Conservative Party; Labour Party; Liberalism
pollution 1, 2, 3, 4
population
birth rates 1
growth 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–6, 7–80, 8
mortality rates 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
rural areas 1, 2, 3, 4
postal service 1
poverty 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
the Church and 1, 2
the Poor Laws and 1
social welfare and 1, 2
see also working-classes
Powell, Enoch 1
Presley, Elvis 1, 2
Priestley, J.B. 1, 2, 3, 4
Primrose League 1
Prison Act (1877) 1
Proclamation to the People of India (1858) 1
Provisional IRA 1
public health 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13–94
Public Health Acts (1848, 1871) 1, 2
public houses 1
Public Service Agreements 1
Pugin, Augustus 1
Race Relations Act (1965, 1968, 1976) 1, 2
radio 1, 2, 3
railways 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Rathbone, Eleanor 1
Rattigan, Terence 1
Reform Acts (1832, 1867,1884) 1, 2
religion and the Church (Anglican)
architecture and art 1, 2
disestablishment of 1, 2, 3
education and social welfare 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
middle-classes and 1
in modern Britain 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
politics and 1, 2, 3