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After the Victorians

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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<
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  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

  Hughes, W.M. (Billy)

 

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