by A. N. Wilson
on sinking of Titanic
Shaw, Norman
Shaw, Robert Gould II
Shaw Theatre, St Paneras
Shawcross, Sir Hartley (later Baron)
Sheehy, Francis
Shelepina, Evgenia Petrovna (later
Ransome)
Shelton, Anne
Sherwood, Marcia
Shinwell, Emanuel (later Baron)
Shirer, William
Sickert, Walter
Sidney Street siege (1911)
Siemens, Dr
Sikhs
Silvester, Victor
Simon, Franz
Simon, Ulrich
Simpson, Ernest
Simpson, Wallis see Windsor, Wallis
Duchess of
Sinclair, Sir Archibald (later 1st Viscount
Thurso)
Singapore
Sinn Fein
Sitwell, Dame Edith
Façade
Sitwell, Sir George
Sitwell, Sir Osbert
Sitwell, Sir Sacheverell
Skeffington, Francis Sheehy
Skidelsky, Robert, Baron
Slade School of Art
Smith, Bosworth
Smith, Captain Edward John
Smith, Herbert
Smith, Logan Pearsall
Smith, Monty
Smyth, Lieutenant-Colonel
Snowden, Philip, Viscount
soap manufacture
Social Democratic congress (1907)
Social Justice (US magazine)
socialism
moderated in Britain
socialism (cont.)
in post-war Britain
rise of
Soddy, Frederick
Solti, Sir Georg
Somaliland
Somme, Battle of the (1916)
songs, popular
Sophie, wife of Franz Ferdinand of Austria
South Africa
and Boer War
Chinese labour in
Indians in
Liberal government policy on
Spain: political disorder in
Spanish Civil War (1936–9)
Speer, Albert
Spence, Sir Basil
Spencer, Herbert
Spencer, Hilda
Spencer, Stanley
Spengler, Oswald: The Decline of the West
Spilsbury, Bernard
Spitfire aircraft
Spring-Rice, Sir Cecil
Stalin, Josef V.
artistic interests
Churchill allies with in war
Churchill’s view of
and collective ideal
demands Second Front
dress
Five Year Plan
pact with Hitler
retains power after war
Roosevelt meets at Tehran
toasts Churchill at Yalta
tyranny
and Ukraine famines
at Whitechapel congress (1907)
Stalingrad
Stamfordham, Arthur John Bigge, Baron
Stamp, Sir Joseph, 1st Baron
Stanley, Venetia (later Montagu)
Stansgate, William Wedgwood Beim, 1st
Viscount
Stauffenberg, Colonel Claus Schenk von
Stein, Gertrude
Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
Stephen, Sir Leslie
Stephens, James
Stettinius, Edward R.
Stevenson, J.J.
Stewart, J.I.M.
Stiffkey, Norfolk
Stimson, Arthur
Stimson, Henry
Stirner, Max (Johann Kaspar Schmidt)
Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadovich
Stone, John
Stopes, Marie
Married Love
Stout, Rex
Strachey, John
Strachey, Lytton
appearance
and Russell
on Victorians
Stravinsky, Igor
The Firebird
The Rite of Spring
street lighting
Streicher, Julius
Streithfield, Gerald
strikes (industrial)
legislation on
pre-1914
women and
see also General Strike
Stuart-Wortley, Colonel Edward Montagu-
Sturt, George
suburbs: development of
Sudetenland
Suez Canal
suffragettes see women: suffrage
Sullivan, Sir Arthur
Summers, Dorothy
Sumner, Irene Violet
Sutton Coldfield
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Symons, Julian: Bloody Murder
Syria
Szilard, Leo
Tait, Archibald Campbell, Archbishop of
Canterbury
Talbot, Godfrey
tariff reform
Tawney, R.H.
taxes: under Lloyd George
Taylor, A.J.P.
Taylor, Geoffrey
Tehran Conference (1943)
television
closed during war
invented
Teller, Edward
Temple, Beatrice (née Lascelles)
Temple, Frederick, Archbishop of
Canterbury
Temple, William, Archbishop of Canterbury
(earlier of York)
Tennant family
Tennant, Sir Charles
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron
on decline of religion
on Lyell’s fossil evidence
In Memoriamo 83
Locksley Hall
Maud
Tenzing Norgay
Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness
Thomas, Fran
Thomas, Hugh, Baron
Thomas, James Henry
Thomas, Luther
Thomas, Parry
Thomson, Sir George
Thomson, Sir Joseph John
Thrale family
Tibet: British expedition to (1904)
Times, The
appeasement policy
on Chamberlain’s Munich agreement
Churchill attempts to close
favours war with Germany
prints crossword puzzles
status
under Northcliffe
Tit-Bits (magazine)
Titanic, RMS
Tito, Josip Broz
Tizard, Sir Henry Thomas
Tobruk
Tolstoy, Count Lev
Toynbee, Arnold: A Study of History
Tracy, Louis
trade unions
agreement with Mond
opposed to communism
support Labour Party
Trades Union Act (1927)
Train, Jack
Treblinka
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm
Trefusis, Violet (née Keppel)
Trenchard, Sir Hugh
Tripp, Sir Alfred
Trollope, Anthony
The Way We Live Now
Trotsky, Leon
Troubridge, Una, Lady
Truman, Harry S.
authorizes use of atomic bomb
and British Labour government
and Churchill’s ‘iron curtain’ speech
and development and use of atomic
bomb
Elizabeth and Philip visit (1951)
hostility to British Empire
and Jewish immigrants
Tube Alloys (code name)
Tucker, Betty
Tucker, Sergeant Charles
Turkey
and Armenian massacres
established as modern republic
in First World War
German railways in
nationality
Ottoman power declines and collapses
and peace settlement (1919)
war against Greeks
Turmel, J.
Turner, Ben
Tyrrell, Father George, SJ
Ukraine: famines
Ulster Unionists
Ulster Volunteer Force
unemployment
see also employment; poor, the
unified field theory
United Nations
United States of America
anti-Semitism in
antitrust laws, 279n
Armenian refugees in
and beginnings of Second World War
and British Labour government
British loans from
casualties in First World War, 193, 201n
and cinema
cultural influence
declines colonial role
demands independence for India
development and use of nuclear
weapons
economy boosted by Second World War
enriched by First World War
enters Second World War after Pearl
Harbor
European hostility to
and First World War
industrial output
influenza deaths
inter-war economic depression
and Irish disaffection, in
isolationism
Keynes visits
and Lend Lease agreement
membership of UN
nationality and race in
and Nazi persecution of Jews
and New Deal
Northcliffe’s mission in
oil reserves
rejects Versailles treaty
rise to power
as rival to British Empire
role in post-war world
‘special relationship’ with Britain
stops Jewish refugees immigration
supports Jewish state in Palestine
Tizard Mission to
war aims
as world power
uranium
Utilitarianism
Valentino, Rudolf
Vanderbilt, Alfred Gwynne
Vansittart, Sir Robert (later Baron)
Verdun, Battle of (1916)
Verification Principle
Versailles, Treaty of (1919)
Victoria, Queen
Victoria, Crown Princess of Prussia (later
Empress Frederick of Germany)
Victoria Louise, Princess of Prussia
Vienna
intellectual life in
music in
post-war decline
Vilna
Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy
Viullari, Luigi
Viviani, René
Voisin brothers
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet
Voroshilov, Marshal Kliment
Vorticism
Vyvyan, Jennifer
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
Wadsworth, Edward
Wales
Church disestablishment in
Jews in
miners’ strikes
Nonconformists in
Wall Street Crash (1929)
Wallace, Brigadier F.C.
Wallace, Henry
Wallis, Barnes
Walton, Sir William
Wangchuk, Tseten
war crimes
Ward, Mrs Humphry (née Arnold)
Ward, Sir Joseph
Warwick, Daisy, Countess of
Washington, DC: Bonus March on (1932)
Waterloo, Battle of (1815)
Watkins, M.H.F.
Watson, James
Watson-Watt, Sir Robert
Watt, Isaac
Watts-Dunton, Theodore
Waugh, Alec: Kept
Waugh, Evelyn
attends performance of Façade
behaviour
converted to Roman Catholicism
on Knox’s puzzles
religious belief
on Second World War
as writer
Sword of Honour
Wavell, General Sir Archibald (later Field
Marshal 1st Earl)
Weaver, Harriet Shaw
Webb, Sir Aston
Webb, Beatrice (née Potter; Lady Passfield)
Webb, Philip
Webb, Sidney (Baron Passfield)
Webbe, Pussy
Wedemeyer, Maria von
Wedgwood, Colonel Josiah, 1st Baron
Weekley, Ernest
Weil, Simone
Weizmann, Chaim
welfare (state)
Welles, Sumner
Wellesz, Egon
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
Wells, H.G.
accomplishments
Beatrice Webb mistrusts
Chesterton opposes
on Henry James
on marriage
views and ideas
and women’s rights
Kipps
Mr Britling Sees It Through
The New Machiavelli
The Shape of Things to Come
Welsh Church: disestablished (1914)
Wembley see British Empire Exhibition
West Africa
West, George Cornwallis
Whistler, James McNeill
Whitbread family
White, Harry Dexter
Whiteside, Dale
Whittle, Sir Frank
Wiedemann, Captain
Wigner, Eugene
Wilcox, Dr W.H.
Wilde, Constance (née Lloyd; Oscar’s wife)
Wilde, Oscar
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Wilhelm II, Kaiser
abdication (1918) and exile
ambivalent attitude to England
autocracy
and change of British royal surname
character and qualities
and daughter Victoria Louise
develops German navy
and Herzl
nostalgia for former power
and outbreak of First World War
refuses to sue for peace
upbringing
visits Damascus
Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Germany
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands
Wilkie, Wendell
Wilkinson, Ellen
Williams, Harold
Wilson, Colonel Cyril
Wilson, Harold (later Baron)
Wilson, Field Marshal Sir Henry
Wilson, Herbert Wrigley
Wilson, Sir Horace
Wilson, Thomas Woodrow
Wilton, Seymour Egerton, 7th Earl of
Wimperis, Harry Egerton
Windsor Castle
Windsor, Edward, Duke of (earlier Prince of
Wales; then King Edward VIII)
accession and abdication
and established Church
in exile
and German fascism
as president of 1924 Empire Exhibition
qualities
relations with Wallis Simpson
sympathy for Welsh unemployed
temper
Windsor, Wallis, Duchess of (earlier
Simpson)
in Abdication crisis
background
status
The Heart Has Its Reasons
Winnington-Ingram, Arthur Foley, Bishop of
London
Wintringham, Margaret
wireless see radio
Witter, Ben
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wizard of Oz, The (film)
Wodehouse, Ethel
Wodehouse (Sir) P.G.
on crosswords
wartime broadcasts from Berlin
Joy in the Mornings 426
women
artistic training
and birth control
death in childbirth
dress and appearance
education of
enfranchised
in Parliament
position of
in professions and careers
&nbs
p; suffrage
Women’s Social and Political Union
Wood, Kingsley
Woodard, Nathaniel, Canon of Manchester
Woodward-Nutt, Arthur
Woolf, Leonard
Woolf, Virginia
and Eliot
on Lydia Lopokova
visits Beatrice Webb
Woolton, Frederick James Marquis, 1st Earl
of
workhouses
working class
Baldwin’s campaign against
and General Strike
marriage
Orwell on
status under Labour Party
and vote
see also poor, the; unemployment
Wright, Wilbur and Orville
Wyndham, George
Wynne, Arthur
X-rays
Yalta Conference (1945)
Yeats, William Butler
Yellon, Evan
York: poverty in
Young Turks
Younghusband, Emmie
Younghusband, Colonel (Sir) Francis
Christian beliefs
expedition to Tibet
Ypres, First Battle of (1914)
Yugoslavia
formed
in Second World War
Yurovsky, Yakov
Zamora, Niceto Alcalá
Zedlits Trützschler, Count Robert von
Zinoviev, Grigori
Zionism
beginnings
and Labour government
Lloyd George and
Zola, Emile: Germinal
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