by A. N. Wilson
Drouet, Dr
Drouet Institute for the Deaf
Drury, Miles
Dublin
and Easter Rising (1916)
population
du Cross, Arthur
Dudgeon, Jeffrey: The Black Diaries
Dudley Ward, Freda
Duncan-Jones, Arthur Stuart, Dean of Chichester
Dundas, Henryst Viscount Melville
Dunkirk evacuation (1940)
Dunn, Mona
Dyer, Brigadier General Reginald
Dzerzhinsky, Felix
Ealing Studios
East India Company
Easter Rising (Ireland)
Eastern Europe
post-Second World War settlement
under Soviet control
Eddy, Mary Baker
Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon)
age
and Churchill’s wartime government
drinking
and Tehran Conference
education: post-Second World War reforms
Education Act (1944)
Edward VII, King (earlier Prince of Wales)
accession
appendicitis
at Buckingham Palace
character
Clemenceau meets
and constitutional crisis (1909–10)
constitutional position
Coronation
death
denigrates Churchill
extravagance
and foreign relations
friendship with the rich
Kaiser Wilhelm and
mistresses
on motor car
and outbreak of First World War
upbringing
Edward VIII, King see Windsor, Edward Duke of
Edwards, A.G., Archbishop of Wales
Egoist, The (magazine)
Egypt
Britain maintains presence in
British rule in
Cromer in
unrest in
Eight Hours Act (1926)
18B see Regulation 18B
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, General Dwight D
Ekaterinburg
El Alamein, battle of (1942)
electricity
Elgar, Sir Edward
dress
and imperialism
musical development
The Apostles
Coronation Ode
Elgin, Victor Alexander Bruceth Earl of
Elibank, Alexander Murray, Master of (1st Viscount Elibank)
Eliot, George
Daniel Deronda
Eliot, Thomas Stearns
background and career
on industrial capitalism
as monarchist
poetry
religious belief
Russell and
on Sitwells’ poems
‘A Cooking Egg’
The Hollow Men
‘Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
Murder in the Cathedral
Waste Land
Eliot, Vivien (née Haigh-Wood)
Elizabeth II, Queen
belief in Commonwealth
character and qualities
Coronation
courtship and marriage
on grandfather’s death
Jubilee
meets Joseph Kennedy
sense of duty
succession on father’s death
upbringing
Elizabeth, Queen of George VI (née Bowes-Lyon)
Ellington, Edward
Ellis, John
Ellis, Rose
Elton, Geoffrey
Employers and Workmen Act (1875)
employment
and government control
see also unemployment
Enigma enciphering system
Enlightenment, The
Enola Gay (US bomber)
Entente Cordiale
entertainment
Epstein, Sir Jacob
Esher, Reginald Baliol Brettnd Viscount
eugenics
Eugenics Society
Eulenburg-Hertefeld, Prince Philip
Europe
and 1919 peace settlement
decline and disorder in
political union
post-1918 debts
see also Eastern Europe
European Coal and Steel Community
Evening Standard
Everest, Mount
evolution, theory of
Exodus (Jewish immigrant ship)
Fabian Society
Faisal I, King of Iraq
Falkner, Captain H.W.
Falkner, John Meade
family
size
as social unit
Fascism
Fawcett, Millicent
Fellowes, Daisy
Fenians
Fermi, Enrico
Festival of Britain (1951)
fiction: and Englishness
Field, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick
‘Fin de siècle’
Finlayson, James
First World War (1914–18)
casualties
causes
civilian targets bombed
conduct of
and crises of capitalism
effect on India
effect on landed aristocracy
effect on USA
ends
global nature
Northcliffe (Harmsworth) on
outbreak
peace settlement
political-economic effects
popular enthusiasm for
and position of women
proposed peace negotiations
and schoolboy punishment
submarine warfare
trench warfare on Western Front
Fish, Hamilton
Fisher, Geoffrey, Archbishop of Canterbury
Fisher, Sir John Arbuthnotst Baron
Fitzgerald, Penelope
Fleming Committee (1942–4)
Fletcher, J.D.
Fogel, Jacob (Christian Jalmish)
Fokine, Michel
Folk Song Society
food: imported
Foot, Michael
Ford Motor Company
Forster, E.M.
A Passage to India
France
Churchill sides with
defeated by Prussia (1870)
demands reparations of Germany
Entente Cordiale with Britain
in First World War
guarantees to Poland
joint stock companies in
as nation-state
opposes war in Iraq
and peace settlement (1919)
post-liberation vengeance
and prevention of Second World War
rejects Keynesianism
requests air support from Churchill (1940)
surrenders (1940)
wartime debt to Britain
Franckenstein, Clemens von
Franco, General Francisco
Franco-Prussian War (1870)
Frank, Hans
Franklin, Philip A.S.
Franklin, Rosalind
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria
Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary
free love
free trade
French, Field Marshal Sir John
French Revolution
Freud, Sigmund
Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams)
Frick, Wilhelm
Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, Kaiser
Frisch, Otto
Frohmann, Charles
Fromm, General Friedrich
Fry, Roger
Frye, W Northrop
Fuchs, Klaus
Furness, Thelma, Lady
Fürstenburg, Prince Max
Futurism
Fyfe, Sir David Maxwell
Gaitskell, Hugh
Gal, Hans<
br />
Gallaher, W.H.
Galland, Adolf
Gallipoli campaign (1915)
Galsworthy, John
The Forsyte Saga
Galton, Sir Francis
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
and Amritsar riot
assassinated
challenges British rule in India
civil disobedience campaign
non-violence
praises Mussolini
principles and achievements
in South Africa
gardening
Garsington Manor, Oxfordshiren
Gates, Reginald Ruggles
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri
Geiger, Hans
general elections
(1906)
(1910; two)
(1924; two)
(1929)
(1945)
(1951)
General Strike (1926)
genetics
genocide
H.G. Wells supports
and mass slaughter
George V, King (earlier Prince of Wales)
accession and reign
acquires radio set
attends Delhi Durbar (1911)
changes surname to Windsor
and constitutional crisis
courage over Ireland
death and succession
dislikes Mickey Mouse
and fate of Russian royal family
on General Strike
on homosexuals
in India (1905)
lifestyle
philistinism
qualities
relations with Lloyd George
reluctance to trying Kaiser in England
and royalist feelings
George VI, King
and children’s upbringing
confirmed
as constitutional monarch
death
on Piper’s paintings of Windsor Castle
qualities
and royalist feelings
social life
stammer
temper
wartime broadcasts
Geraldo (band leader)
Germany
advance in West (1940)
aircraft
and Anschluss with Austria
anti-Semitism in
arms race with Britain
biblical scholarship
blockaded (1914–18)
bombed in Second World War
builds railways to Middle East
civilian casualties in Second World War
companies inn
concentration camps
and conduct of First World War
defeat (1918)
economy under Hitler
fails to develop nuclear weapons
in First World War
hyperinflation in
influence in Iraq
invades Russia (1941)
invasion plan against Britain
and Irish disaffection
leaves League of Nations
Morgenthau’s plan to deindustrialize
nationality and identity
naval expansion
in North African campaign
ocean liners
opposes war with Iraq
and outbreak of First World War
pact with USSR (1939)
popular complicity in Nazi regime
populationn
post-1945 defeat and retribution
post-war industrial recovery
post-war rebuilding
as pre-1914 threat
property owning in
resistance to Hitler
in Second World War
under Hitler
united
and US interests
war reparations
Weimar Republic collapses
Giandolini, Abel
Gibbes, Sydney
Gibbon, Edward: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gibbons, Stella
Gigantic (proposed liner)
Gilbert, Sir Martinn
Gilbert, (Sir) William Schwenck
Gladstone, Herbert J.
Gladstone, William Ewart
Glasgow: Empire exhibition (1938)
Gloucester, Prince Henry, Duke of
Glubb, Sir John (Glubb Pasha)
Glyn, Elinor
God: decline of belief in
Goddard, Station-Sergeant George
Goddard, Theodore
Godse, Nathuram Vinayak
Goebbels, Josef
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
gold standard
Goldstein, Eugen
Gonne, Maud, in
Good Housekeeping (magazine)
Gordon, General Charles George
Göring, Hermann
Gorky, Maxim
Gort, Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount
Gosse, Sir Edmund
Gough, General Sir Hubert
Goulding, Alfred
Government of India Act (1919)
Graham, Billy
gramophones and records
Grant, General Ulysses Simpson
Great Exhibition (1851)
Greece: in Second World War
Green, T.H.
Greenberg, Leopold J.
Greene, Graham
Gresley, Sir Nigel
Grey, Sir Edward (later Viscount Grey of Falloden)
as foreign secretary
and Henry Wilson
on oil and railway concessions in Persia,
on outbreak of war (1914)
speech disrupted by suffragettes
Grimthorpe, Ernest William Beckett, 1st
Baron
Gross, Otto
Grossmith, George and Weedon: Diary of a Nobody
Guernica
Guggenheim, Benjamin
Guildford cathedral
Guinness family
Gulag (Russian prison camp system)
Gulf War, First (1991)
Guthrie, Maggie
Gwinner, Dr von
Habeas Corpus: suspended under Regulation 18B
Hadleigh, Essex: Farm Colony
Haffner, Sebastian
Hague Conference (1906)
Hague Convention on Land Warfare (1927)
Hahn, Otto
Haig, Field Marshal Douglas, 1st Earl
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia
Haldane, General Sir Aylmer
Halder, General Franz
Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of
Hall, Radclyffe: The Well of Loneliness
Hall, Ruth
Hamburg: bombed in war
Hamilton, Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of
Hamilton, General Sir Ian
Handley, Tommy
Hanfstaengl, ‘Putzi’
Hannington, Wal
Harberton, Florence, Viscountess
Harburg, ‘Yip’
Hardie, Keir
Harding, Warren Gamaliel
Hardinge, Alexander, 2nd Baron
Hardinge, Charles, 1st Baron
Hardy, Oliver see Laurel, Stan and Oliver Hardy
Hardy, Thomas
Hare, Sir John
Harewood, Henry George Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of
Harland and Wolff (shipbuilders)
Harnack, Adolf
Harriman, W. Averell
Harris, Sir Arthur
Harris, Barbara
Hart, Basil Liddell
Hartnell, Norman
Haskins, Minnie Louise: ‘God Knows’ (poem)
Haslam, E.B.
Hassan, Mullah Mohammed bin Abdullah
Hatfield House, Hertfordshire
Haw-Haw, Lord see Joyce, William
Hawking, Stephen
Headlam, Arthur, Bishop of Gloucester
Hearst, Stephen
Hebert, Father A.G.: The Parish Communion
Hébert, Marcel
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Frie
drich
Heinemann, William
Henderson, Arthur
Henson, Hensley, Bishop of Durham
Hepworth, Dorothy
Herbert, Aubrey
heredity
and cultural continuity
and genetics
Hertling, George von
Herzl, Theodor
Hess, Rudolf
Heydrich, Reinhard
Hill, Miss I.N.
Hill, Octavia
Hillary, (Sir) Edmund
Himmler, Heinrich
Hindenburg, General Paul von
Hinzpeter, Georg
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan
Hiroshima
Hitler, Adolf
anti-Semitism
appointed chancellor
arrogance
artistic interests
assassination attempts on
attractiveness to foreign visitors
and British appeasement policy
Buchman supports
Chamberlain meets
and Christianity
Churchill on
compared with Churchill
and Czech crisis
death
defeat
detailed planning
disparages Churchill
economic policy
expansionist policy
and Fascism
and First World War
hatred of jazz
and Hess’s flight to Britain
invades Poland
invades Russia
and mass slaughter
occupies Austria
occupies Rhineland (1936)
on Armenian massacres
opposes nuclear weapons
orders retaliation bombing raids against Britain
and outbreak of Second World War
pact with Stalin
rebuilds Germany as military force
Reck-Malleczewen despises
regime
rise to power
at school with Wittgenstein
seeks conquest of Russia
tyranny
view of Britain and British Empire
welcomes Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Welles meets
Windsors visit
withdraws from League of Nations
Mein Kampf
Hobhouse, Sir Charles
Hoesch, Leopold von
Hogarth, David
Hogarth Press
Hogg, Quintin (later Baron Hailsham)
Hohenzollern dynasty
Holland, General Tom
Holloway prison: wartime prisoners in
Holloway, Stanley
Hollywood
Home Rule (Ireland)
homosexuality
Diaghilev’s
illegality in Engand
internment in Nazi concentration camps
Kaiser’s view of
Hong Kong
honours: sale of
Hood, HAIS
Hoover, Herbert
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Hopkins, Harry
Hopkinson, Sir Alfred
Horgan, John H.
Horn, Joe
hospitals
see also National Health Service
House, Colonel Edward M.
housing
British
post-war
suburban
Housman, A.E.
Howard, Brian
Howard League for Penal Reform
Howard, Sir Michael: The First World War 201n
Hüber-Huseler, General Dietrich von
Hudson, Edward
Hügel, Baron Friedrich von
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