by Andy Beckett
Thatcher attack on, 1;
on Thatcher becoming Conservative Party leader, 1;
and trade unions, 1, 2;
on Wilson, 1;
as Wilson’s chancellor, 1, 2 ;
and Wilson’s 1974 government, 1;
and Winter of Discontent, 1
Health and Safety at Work Act, 1
health service see hospitals
Heath, Edith, 1
Heath, Ted: and 1970 election, 1, 2, 3;
and 1972 miners’ strike, 4, 5;
and 1974 (Feb) election, 1, 2 ;
and 1974 miners’ strike, 1;
and 1979 election, 1;
appearance, 1, 2;
background, 1;
building schemes, 1;
and CCU, 1;
character, 1, 2, 3;
at Colchester Oyster Feast, 1, 2;
at Conservative Party 1975 conference, 1 ;
and Conservative Party 1975 leadership contest, 1, 2, 3;
early government, 1 ;
economic measures and ‘U-turn’, 1, 2, 3, 4;
electioneering style, 1, 2;
elections for own seat, 1;
and Europe, 1, 2, 3, 4;
and feminism, 1;
and free festivals, 1;
and free-market ideas, 1 ;
funeral, 1 ;
homes, 1, 2, 3 ;
influences on thinking, 1 ;
interviewed by author, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
IRA attack on, 1;
and Jones, 1, 2, 3;
and Maplin, 1, 2, 3;
and music, 1;
Nazi Germany visited by, 1;
and North Sea oil, 1;
and Northern Ireland, 1, 2, 3, 4;
at Oxford, 1, 2, 3;
plans for government, 1;
political career to 1970 1, 2, 3, 4;
political ideas, 1;
political qualities, 1 ;
popularity, 1, 2, 3;
popularity over Thatcher, 1;
relations with Neave, 1;
rhetoric, 1;
and sailing, 1;
and Scottish devolution, 1;
in Second World War, 1;
at Selsdon conference, 1, 2;
Selsdon’s effect on reputation, 1 ;
and Spanish Civil War, 1 ;
talks with Liberals, 1 ;
and Thatcher, 1, 2, 3 ;
and three-day week, 1, 2, 3;
thyroid problems, 1;
and trade unions, 1, 2;
on unemployment, 1;
and Winter of Discontent, 1
Heath, William, 1
Heathrow airport, 1
Hell’s Angels, 1
Hendrix, Jimi, 1
Hennessy, Peter, 1
Heseltine, Michael, 1
Hickey, John, 1
High Rise (Ballard), 1
Highbury Fields demo, 1
Hildyard, Nick, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Hill, Christopher, 1
Hill, Lord, 1
Hiro, Dilip, 1
History Man, The (Bradbury), 1
Hitler, Adolf, 1
Hockney, David, 1
Hoggart, Simon, 1
Holdsworth, David, 1
holidays: average paid, 1;
increase in foreign, 2
Hollingsworth, Mark, 1
homosexuality see gay rights and politics
Hornsey College of Art, 1
Hoskyns, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
hospitals: strikes, 1 ;
Westminster, 2, 3, 4
House of Lords: abolition, 1
houses: council-house sales, 1, 2, 3;
prices, 4, 5, 6
Howard, Michael, 1
Howe, Geoffrey: and Conservative
Party 1975 leadership contest, 1, 2;
and free-market ideas, 1 ;
on length of Wilson–Callaghan government, 1;
as Opposition adviser to Thatcher, 1, 2;
and Sherman, 1, 2;
in Thatcher’s government, 1;
and Tory Opposition pay policy, 1;
and trade unions, 1
Huckfield, Leslie, 1
Hudd, Roy, 1
Huddle, Roger, 1, 2
Hull, 1, 2, 3
Hurd, Douglas: on 1970 election, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
on 1972 miners’ strike, 6, 7;
on Heath and Europe, 1, 2;
at Heath’s funeral, 1;
on Heath’s press conferences, 1
Hutber, Patrick, 1, 2
Hutton, Graham, 1
I’m All Right, Jack (film), 1
Ice Age, The (Drabble), 1, 2
IEA see Institute of Economic Affairs
IMF see International Monetary Fund
immigration see race issues
Imperial Typewriters, 1, 2
‘In Place of Strife’, 1, 2, 3
India, 1
Indian Workers’ Associations, 1
industrial relations: oil industry, 1 ;
see also strikes;
trade unions
Industrial Relations Act (1971), 1, 2
inflation: under Callaghan, 1, 2, 3;
and EEC, 4;
under Heath, 1, 2, 3;
stagflation, 1, 2;
under Thatcher, 1;
under Wilson, 1, 2, 3
Ink magazine, 1, 2
Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1
Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
interest rates, 1, 2
International Marxist Group, 1
International Monetary Fund (IMF): creation, 1, 2;
loans to Britain, 3, 4
International Socialists see Socialist Workers Party
internment, 1
‘Into the Eighties’, 1
investment, foreign, 1
IRA, Official, 1, 2, 3
IRA, Provisional: in eighties, 1;
foundation, 2 ;
Heath government talks, 1 ;
internment, 1 ;
late seventies, 1, 2;
and Ross McWhirter’s death, 1;
mainland campaign, 1, 2;
strategy, 1
Iranian Revolution, 1
Irish National Liberation Army, 1
Isle of Wight festival, 1, 2
Italy, 1, 2
J. H. Richards (company), 1, 2
Japan, 1
Jarman, Derek, 1
Jay, Anthony, 1
Jay, Douglas, 1, 2
Jay, Margaret, 1
Jay, Peggy, 1
Jay, Peter: appearance and background, 1;
on Callaghan and trade unions, 2;
and Callaghan’s 1976 Labour Party conference speech, 1, 2, 3;
on Callaghan’s view of self, 1;
family, 1, 2 ;
and monetarism, 1 ;
on Wilson, 1, 2;
on Winter of Discontent, 1
Jenkin, Patrick, 1
Jenkins, Peter, 1
Jenkins, Roy: Blair on, 1;
on Economist cover, 2;
and free festivals, 1, 2, 3;
and Grunwick, 1;
and IMF, 1;
and Labour Party 1976 leadership contest, 1;
Labour plots to replace Wilson with, 1 ;
and Northern Ireland, 1;
at Oxford, 1;
in Wilson’s sixties governments, 1
Jesus College, Oxford, 1
Jimmy Young Programme (radio), 1
Johnson, Boris, 1
Johnson, Paul, 1, 2
Jonathan Cape (company), 1
Jones, Bob, 1, 2
Jones, Evelyn, 1
Jones, Jack: appearance and character, 1, 2, 3 ;
background, 4 ;
Blair on, 1;
and Callaghan, 1;
and CP, 1;
and Grunwick, 1;
and Heath, 1, 2, 3;
and IMF cuts, 1;
influence, 1, 2 ;
lifestyle, 1, 2;
media and Establishment attitude to, 1;
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retirement, 1 ;
and the social contract, 1, 2 ;
and Spanish Civil War, 1, 2;
and TGWU Centre, 1
Jones, Michael, 1
Joseph, Keith: background and character, 1 ;
and Conservative Party 1975 leadership contest, 2, 3;
‘eugenics’ speech, 1, 2;
and free-market ideas, 1, 2, 3, 4 ;
in Heath’s government, 1;
and NAFF, 1;
as Opposition adviser to Thatcher, 1;
Sherman on, 1;
and speech making, 1;
in Thatcher’s government, 1
Jubilee (film), 1
Kagan, Joseph, 1
Kaufman, Gerald, 1
Kavanagh, Dennis, 1, 2
Keele University, 1
Kemp, Professor Alex, 1
Kennedy, John F., 1
Keynes, John Maynard, 1, 2, 3
Khmer Rouge, 1
Kinnock, Neil, 1, 2, 3
Kissinger, Henry, 1, 2
Kitson, Alex, 1
Kneath, D. N., 1
Koestler, Arthur, 1
‘Labour Isn’t Working’ campaign, 1
Labour Party: 1976 conference, 1, 2, 3 ;
1976 leadership contest, 4 ;
1979 manifesto, 1;
changes in traditional Labour movement, 1, 2 ;
Lib–Lab pact, 1, 2;
New Labour foreshadowings, 1, 2, 3;
nowadays, 1;
opinion poll ratings in 1978, 1;
relations with unions, 1;
and Scottish devolution, 1, 2, 3, 4 ;
and trade union vote, 1;
and Transport House, 1;
TUC–Labour Party Liaison Committee, 1, 2, 3;
vote in 1979 election, 1
Laker, Freddie, 1
Lally, Jack, 1, 2
Lamb, Larry, 1
Lambert, Gavin, 1
Lancaster University, 1
Larkin, Philip, 1
Laura Ashley (company), 1
Law, Andrew Bonar, 1
Law, Roger, 1
Lawson, Nigel, 1
Led Zeppelin, 1
Leicester University, 1
Leigh-on-Sea, 1
leisure, 1
Leninism Under Lenin (Liebman), 1
Lennon, John, 1, 2, 3
Lerwick, 1, 2
Lessing, Doris, 1
Liberal Democratic Party, 1
Liberal Party: and 1974 (Feb) election, 1 ;
and fall of Callaghan government, 2, 3;
Heath invites to join government, 1;
Lib–Lab pact, 1, 2;
and Scottish devolution, 1
Liberty and Property Defence League, 1
Liebman, Marcel, 1
Limits to Growth, The, 1
Lindsay, A. D., 1, 2
Linklater, Peter, 1
literature, 1
Little Red Struggler, The, 1
living standards, 1, 2
Lloyd George, David, 1, 2
London: Brent, 1, 2;
Brent Cross shopping centre, 3;
Brick Lane, 1 ;
Brown’s hotel, 1 ;
Camden Lock, 1;
Covent Garden: Middle Earth, 1;
docklands regeneration, 1;
East End, 1;
IRA attacks and sympathizers, 1, 2;
King’s Cross station, 1;
Ladbroke Grove, 1, 2, 3;
Nossiter on habitability, 1;
Notting Hill, 1, 2 ;
Portobello market, 1 ;
Smith Square: Transport House, 1, 2;
squats, 1;
Stoke Newington, 1;
Thames Barrier, 1;
Victoria Park, 1 ;
Westminster Hospital, 1, 2, 3;
Willesden, 1
London Gay Switchboard, 1
London School of Economics (LSE), 1, 2, 3
London Women’s Liberation Workshop, 1, 2
Londonderry, 1, 2;
Bloody Sunday, 3 ;
Bogside, 1, 2 ;
Operation Motorman, 1
lorry drivers see road hauliers
Los Angeles, 1
LSE see London School of Economics
Lumsden, Andrew, 1
Lydon, John (Johnny Rotten), 1
McCaffrey, Tom, 1
McCartney, Paul, 1
McCusker, Harold, 1
MacDonald, Ramsay, 1
McEwan, Ian, 1
McGahey, Mick, 1, 2, 3
McGrandle, Leith, 1
McGuinness, Martin, 1
McHugh, Peter, 1
McIntosh, Ronald: on North Sea oil production, 1, 2;
seventies pessimism, 3, 4;
on Thatcher becoming Conservative Party leader, 1;
on Wilson, 1
MacKeown, Brendon, 1
McKie, David, 1
McLaren, Charlie, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Macleod, Iain, 1, 2
Macmillan, Harold, 1, 2, 3
McNally, Tom: and 1979 election, 1;
Callaghan cautions about bawdy stories, 2;
on Callaghan’s Barbados visit, 1;
and Callaghan’s decision to postpone election, 1, 2, 3;
and Callaghan’s economic measures, 1, 2, 3;
on Guadeloupe summit, 1;
on seventies industry, 1;
and Winter of Discontent, 1, 2
Mac Stíofáin, Seán, 1, 2, 3, 4
McSweeney, Richard, 1
McWhirter, Norris, 1, 2, 3
McWhirter, Ross, 1
Maidstone, 1
Mailer, Norman, 1
Major, John, 1
Majority news-sheet, 1
Manchester: Arndale centre, 1
Manifesto for a Sustainable Society, 1
Mansfield Hosiery Mills, 1
Maplin, 1
Maplin Movement, 1
Marxism: campus radicalism, 1
Mason, Angela (Angie Weir), 1, 2
Mason, Roy, 1
materialism see consumerism
maternity leave, 1
Maudling, Reginald: and 1972 miners’ strike, 1, 2, 3 ;
and Northern Ireland, 4, 5, 6;
on picketing law, 1
Measure of Domestic Progress (MDP), 1
media: newspaper coverage of Winter of Discontent, 1 ;
newspaper problems, 2;
Northern Ireland coverage, 1 ;
publishers and left-wing radicalism, 1
Melchett, Lord Peter, 1
MI5, 1, 2, 3, 4
Middle Class Association, 1, 2
Middle Way, The (Macmillan), 1
Middlemas, Keith, 1, 2
Middlesex Polytechnic, 1
Miliband, Ralph, 1
Millar, Ronald, 1
Miller, Henry, 1
Millett, Kate, 1
Milligan, Stephen, 1, 2
Mills, John Platts, 1
Milton Keynes, 1 ;
Heelands, 2 ;
Netherfield, 1 ;
shopping centre, 1
mining and miners: comparative pay, 1;
history of, 1;
see also National Union of Mineworkers
Mises, Ludwig von, 1
Miss World contest, 1
Monday Club, 1
Money Programme, The (TV series), 1
money supply and monetarism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
moral values: Callaghan on, 1
Morgan, Kenneth O., 1, 2, 3
Morris, Jamie, 1
Moss, Robert, 1
Mountfield, Peter, 1
Movement for Survival, 1
Moyle, Roland, 1
Murdoch, Rupert, 1, 2, 3
Murray, Len, 1, 2
music, 1
Mussolini, Benito, 1
Nabokov, Vladimir, 1
NAFF see National Association for Freedom
Nairn, Tom, 1
National Association for Freedom (NAFF), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
National Coal Board: and 1972 miners’
strike, 1, 2;
1973 negotiations with miners, 3 ;
and 1981 miners’ dispute, 1;
under Robens, 1
National Economic Development Council: creation, 1
National Front (NF), 1, 2, 3, 4
National Pensioners Convention, 1
