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INDEX
11-plus examination 1
1941 Committee 1
abdication crisis (1936) 1, 2, 3
Aberdeen 1
Acland, Sir Richard 1, 2, 3
Air Raid Precautions (ARP) 1
air raids
air-raid wardens 1
Baedeker raids 1, 2
Blitz 1, 2, 3
civilian casualties 1
‘nuisance raids’ 1, 2
V-1 and V-2 bombs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Algeria 1
amateur dramatics 1, 2
American GIs 1, 2
Amery, Leo 1, 2
Anderson shelters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Anglesey 1
anti-aircraft fire 1, 2
Anzac Day 1
appeasement policy 1
Argentina 1
Arromanches 1
Athenia, sinking of 1
Atkinson, Margaret 1
Atlantic Wall 1
atomic bomb 1, 2, 3
Attlee, Clement 1, 2, 3, 4
Azad Hind 1
‘baby blitz’ 1, 2, 3
Badoglio, Marshal 1, 2
Baedeker raids 1, 2
Bankhead, Tallulah 1
Bardia 1
Barrow-in-Furness 1, 2, 3
Basic English 1
Bath 1, 2
Battle of Britain 1, 2, 3, 4
Battle of France 1, 2
Bayeux 1
BBC 1, 2
see also individual programmes
Beaverbrook, Lord 1
Belgium 1, 2, 3
surrender of 1
Belsen 1, 2, 3
Berlin
Allied capture of 1
RAF bombing raids 1, 2
Bevan, Aneurin 1
Beveridge, William
and coal rationing 1, 2
and National Health Service 1
and social insurance 1, 2
loses seat at the election 1
Beveridge Report 1, 2, 3, 4
Bevin, Ernest 1, 2, 3
Bevin Boys 1
Bingley, Nancy 1
Birkenhead 1
Birmingham 1
air raids 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
war production plants 1
Birmingham Small Arms (BSA) 1, 2
black Americans 1
black market 1, 2, 3, 4
black propaganda 1
blackout 1
cover for romance 1, 2
penalty fine for not obeying rules 1
restrictions lifted 1
Blackwell v. Blackwell 1, 2, 3
Blitz 1, 2, 3
baby blitz 1, 2, 3
Blitzkrieg 1, 2, 3
blood donors 1
Board of Trade 1, 2
Boer War 1
Bore War see Phoney War
Bourneville Utilities 1
Bradley, General Omar 1
Brains Trust 1, 2
bread
National Loaf 1
rationing 1, 2
Brest 1
Bridges, Alice 1, 2
and air raids 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
on the atomic bomb 1
attends psychology discussion group 1
background 1
on bombing of German cities 1
on Churchill 1
on D-Day 1
dressmaking business 1
on education reforms 1
and the end of the war 1, 2, 3
and evacuation 1, 2, 3
flirtations 1, 2, 3, 4
and the general election 1, 2
on the German people 1
on the Holocaust 1
ill health 1, 2, 3
on keeping up appearances 1
marital troubles 1
marriage, view of 1
on means-tested public assistance 1
on the Beveridge Report 1
and the outbreak of war 1, 2, 3
post-war years 1
on threatened German invasion 1
war work 1, 2, 3, 4
widowed 1
Bridges, Jacqueline 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Bridges, Les 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Brighton quickie 1
Bristol 1
British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 1, 2
British Restaurants 1
British Union of Fascists (BUF/BU) 1
Buchenwald 1, 2
bureaucracy 1, 2, 3
Burma 1, 2, 3, 4
Burma Road 1
Butler Act (Education Act) 1, 2
by-elections (1943) 1
calorie intake 1
Canterbury 1
Cardiff 1
‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ propaganda 1
Casablanca conference (1943) 1
central heating, ban on 1
Chamberlain, Joseph 1
Chamberlain, Neville 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Channel Islands
evacuation of 1
occupation of 1
Chiang Kai-shek 1
children, evacuation of 1, 2, 3, 4
Christmas Days 1, 2
Churchill, Clementine 1
Churchill, Winston 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
on America’s entry into the war 1
and the Basic English project 1, 2
and the Beveridge Report 1, 2
and D-Day 1
and the Dunkirk evacuation 1
on equal pay 1
on fall of Singapore 1, 2
on fall of Tobruk 1, 2
Four Years’ Plan 1, 2, 3
on Gandhi 1
and the general election 1
Gestapo speech 1, 2
ill health 1
on the Italian campaign 1
oratory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
out of office 1
public discontent with 1, 2
cigarettes 1, 2, 3, 4
cinema 1, 2, 3
Civil Defence and Anti-Aircraft duties 1
civil defence injuries 1
Clark, Lieutenant General Mark 1
class issues 1, 2, 3
coal
poor quality 1, 2
rationing 1, 2
shortages 1, 2, 3
coal-mining
Bevin Boys 1
pay structures 1, 2
strikes 1, 2, 3
wartime conditions 1
coalition government 1, 2
Cold War 1, 2
Cologne, bombing of 1
Common Wealth Party 1, 2
Communal Feeding Centres 1
communism 1, 2
compensation for injuries 1
concentration camps 1
conscription 1
Constantine, Learie 1
cookery 1
see also domestic management
Cooper, Gary 1
cosmetics 1
cost of living 1
‘Coventration’ 1
Coventry
destruction of 1
IRA bomb 1
Coward, Noël 1, 2, 3, 4
crime 1
black marketeering 1, 2, 3
careless talk, criminalization of 1
defeatism, prosecutions for 1
evacuation system abuses 1
insanity defence 1
looting 1
sale of coupons and ration books 1
waste, criminalisation of 1
workplace theft 1
Cripps, Mrs (housekeeper) 1, 2, 3
Cripps, Sir Stafford
and Indian independence 1
on the Beveridge Report 1
Czechoslovakia 1, 2
German invasion of 1
D-Day
misinformation campaign 1
Normandy landings 1, 2
preparations for 1
Dachau 1
Daily Herald 1
Daily Mirror 1
Daily Telegraph 1
Daily Worker 1
defeatism 1, 2
prosecutions for 1
Denmark, fall of 1, 2
Dieppe raid 1, 2
Digging for Victory 1
Dimbleby, Richard 1
disability benefits 1
divorce 1, 2
costs of 1
grounds for 1
ruses 1
statistics 1
dole see unemployment insurance
domestic management 1, 2, 3
doodlebug see V-1 bomb
Dover 1
Dresden, bombing of 1
dried eggs 1
Dunkirk evacuation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
East Bengal (Bangladesh) 1
Eastbourne 1
economic boom 1, 2
Eden, Anthony 1
education reform 1, 2
Edward VIII, King 1, 2, 3
Egypt 1
Eire, neutrality 1
Eisenhower, General Dwight D. 1
El Alamein 1, 2, 3
Eliot, T.S. 1
Elliott, Dorothy 1
entertainment tax 1
equal pay issue 1
Esperanto 1
Ethiopia 1
evacuation schemes 1, 2, 3, 4
boarding allowances 1
mistreatment of evacuees 1
overseas destinations 1
system abuses 1
Exeter 1
‘fair shares for all’, principle of 1
family allowances 1
fascism 1, 2, 3, 4
fashion 1
fifth columnists 1, 2, 3, 4
Finland, fall of 1
fire watching duty 1, 2, 3
compulsory for women 1
moral concerns 1
First World War 1, 2
casualties 1
Folkestone 1
food
eating out 1
overcharging for 1
parcels 1
rationing 1
scarce commodities 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
subsidies 1
football stadiums, closure of 1
Forbes, Rosita 1, 2
Forward March Movement 1
Four Years’ Plan 1, 2, 3
France
fall of 1, 2, 3
Franco-British union, proposed 1
Normandy landings 1, 2
Franco, General Francisco 1, 2
friendly societies 1
fuel shortages 1
Gallacher, Willie 1
Gandhi, Mahatma 1
assassination 1
hunger strike 1, 2
non-violence stance 1
on the Cripps Offer 1
Quit India Movement 1, 2
Garson, Greer 1
gas masks 1
Gellhorn, Martha 1
general election (1945) 1, 2, 3
General Strike (1926) 1
George VI, King 1, 2, 3
Germany
Allied bombing campaigns over 1, 2, 3, 4
Battle of France 1
British attitudes to German civilians 1, 2
civilian morale 1, 2, 3
declares war on US 1
Italian campaign 1, 2
North African campaign 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Gibraltar 1
Glasgow 1
Goebbels, Joseph 1, 2, 3
Good Housekeeping 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Gort, Lord 1
Gour, Sir Hari Singh 1
grammar schools 1
Grant, Irene 1, 2, 3
and air raids 1
on the atomic bomb 1, 2
on the Beveridge Report 1
on the bombing of German cities 1, 2
on Churchill 1, 2, 3, 4
on Cripps 1
on education reform 1
and the general election 1, 2, 3
on the German people 1, 2, 3
on the Holocaust 1
house-hunting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
ill health 1, 2
on Indian situation 1
on means-tested public assistance 1
on the miners’ strikes 1
on the Mosleys 1
on the National Health Service 1
and the outbreak of war 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
post-war years 1
on Priestley 1
on rationing 1
on Roosevelt’s death 1
socialist views 1, 2, 3, 4
on threatened German invasion 1
Grant, Marjorie 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Grant, Rita 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Grant, Tom 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Great Yarmouth 1
grey market 1
Guernica, bombing of 1
Haldane, J.B.S. 1
Hamburg, bombing of 1, 2
Handley, Tommy 1, 2
Harris, Sir Arthur 1
Haw-Haw, Lord 1
health insurance 1
Heath, Ambrose 1
Henson, Herbert Hensley 1
Hertzog, J.B.M. 1
Hiroshima 1, 2
Hitchcock, Alfred 1
Hitler, Adolf 1
assassination attempt 1, 2, 3
death of 1
and the Munich Crisis 1
orders Baedeker raids 1
plans invasion of Britain 1, 2, 3
triumphal entry into Paris 1
Hobart, Major General Percy 1
Hogg, Quintin 1
Holocaust 1
Home Guard 1, 2
homelessness 1
Hong Kong
, surrender of 1
house prices 1
housekeeping money 1
housework, men and 1
housing shortage 1, 2
Hull 1
Hulton, Edward 1
Huxley, Julian 1
imperial losses 1, 2, 3, 4
incendiary bombs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
incomes 1
India 1, 2, 3
Cripps Offer 1
East Bengal famine 1
nationalism 1
Indian National Congress 1, 2, 3
industrial action see strikes
infidelities 1, 2, 3
financial penalties 1
impetus for 1
moral panics 1
see also divorce
International Labour Party (ILP) 1
internment 1
invasion of Britain, proposed 1, 2, 3, 4
Irish Republican Army (IRA) 1
Isle of Man 1
isolationism 1
Italy
armistice 1
declares war on US 1
Gothic Line 1
Italian campaign 1, 2
North African campaign 1
surrender of 1, 1976
Japan 1, 2
Allied bombing of 1
Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1, 2
Manchurian invasion 1
occupation of Burma 1, 2, 3
surrender of 1, 2
takes Hong Kong 1
takes Singapore 1
threaten India 1, 2
jingoism 1, 2
Jinnah, Mohammed Ali 1
Kitchen Front 1
knitting projects 1, 2, 3
Kristallnacht (1938) 1
Labour Party 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
landing craft 1
Last, Arthur 1, 2, 3, 4
Last, Cliff 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Last, Nella 1, 2
and air raids 1, 2
on the atomic bomb 1, 2
on the Beveridge Report 1
on Churchill 1, 2
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