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A History of Britain, Volume 3

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by Simon Schama


  Tilak, Bal Gangadhar 288–9

  Tobruk, battle of 407

  Toleration Act (1689) 35

  tombs 168

  Tone, Theobald Wolfe 76, 77

  Tonypandy 432, 389

  Tories 36, 93, 94, 106, 260–1, 271, 300, 319, 323, 389, 409, 410, 415, 417 see also Conservatives

  Townsend, General Sir Charles 338

  Toynbee, Arnold 374

  trade 320–1, 363, 314–5, 371

  trade unions 180, 190–2 passim, 314, 315, 324, 325, 336, 337, 355, 391, 399, 415

  Trades Disputes Act (1906) 324

  Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act (1927) 467

  Trafalgar, battle of 89

  tramps 356–8

  Trans-Jordan 340

  transportation 105, 136, 231

  travel 13–16

  Trenchard, Air Marshal 335

  Trevelyan, Charles 207, 210, 212–14, 215, 217, 218, 221, 222, 225–6, 227–9, 231–2, 232–3, 238, 256, 278, 279, 413

  Sir Charles 353

  G. M. 300, 363, 382, 387

  George Otto 255, 279, 287

  Triple Entente 327

  Tuke, James Hack 229

  Turkey 241, 275, 276, 330, 338

  Turner, William 89

  Tytler, Harriet/Robert 282, 289, 316–17, 340

  unemployment 92, 105, 127, 133–4, 190, 322, 337, 352, 354, 360, 362, 365

  insurance 318, 321, 322, 327, 335

  United Nations 414

  United States 108, 224, 225, 85, 169, 170, 182, 231, 272, 313, 334, 352, 359, 392, 395, 396, 411, 414, 415

  Unknown Soldier, burial of 334–5

  utilitarianism 156, 158, 202, 204, 259

  de Valera, Eamon 289

  Vallon, Annette 56, 58, 86

  Vansittart, Lord 376

  de Vere, Aubrey 230

  Versailles, Treaty of 334, 374

  Victor, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg 223

  Victoria, Princess Royal 112, 149, 170, 171

  Victoria, Queen 112, 116–26, 147–54, 164–5, 167, 169, 171–2, 181, 190, 196, 210, 256, 259, 262–4, 316

  funeral 192

  Jubilees 190–1, 196

  widowhood 172–5

  Vienna, Congress of 103

  Vincent, Henry 136

  Vinegar Hill, battle of 77

  wages 92, 105, 126, 134, 135, 144, 188–9, 314, 318, 335, 352, 354

  Wajid Ali Shah 245

  Walcheren expedition 91

  Wales 13–14, 16–17, 106, 136, 313, 315, 322, 324, 325, 416, 418, 419

  Walker, Thomas 66

  walking 17–18, 81, 108, 358

  Wallas, Graham 318, 343

  Walpole, Horace 59

  Warner, George Townsend 300, 345

  wars, Afghan 220, 272, 276

  American Civil 169, 170; of Independence 13, 14, 15, 37, 43, 296

  Boer 306, 320

  Cold 412

  Crimea 165–6, 169

  Falklands 414

  French, Revolutionary 50, 55, 58, 62–3, 66–8, 71–8; Napoleonic 85–6, 89; Peninsular 91

  Irish 337, 339

  Kaffir 241

  Korean 412

  opium 241–2

  Sikh 252

  Spanish Civil 366, 377, 402

  World (First) 290, 329–34, 378–9; (Second) 375, 384–410

  Waterloo, battle of 91, 92

  Watt, Robert 55

  Waugh, Evelyn 386

  Wavell, General Archibald 406

  Webb, Beatrice/Sidney 188, 310, 316–8, 353

  Wedgwood, Col. Josiah 381

  Wedgwood, Thomas 35, 55, 85

  Weekly Political Register 98–9

  welfare state 405, 409, 410, 411, 413, 415

  Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of

  Wellington 91, 99, 103, 105, 106, 115, 140

  Richard, Marquess 204

  Wells, H. G. 308, 309, 317–9, 334, 341–3, 375

  Outline of History, The 341–3

  Wesley, John 34

  West, Thomas 14–15, 108

  West Indies 104, 420–1

  Westminster Association 37

  Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John 373

  Whigs 36–7, 39, 51, 105, 106, 319

  ‘New’ 51

  Wigan 360–1, 363–4

  Wilberforce, William 105

  Wilhelmina, Queen 391

  William III 38, 39, 42

  William IV 106, 107, 119, 120, 121, 124

  William V Stadholder 68

  Williams, Helen Maria 55, 59, 63

  Williams-Ellis, Clough 387

  Williamson, Henry 375

  Wilson, Harold 297, 413

  Wilson, Harriette 199

  Wilson, Horace Hayman 213, 214

  Wilson, Woodrow 336

  Windsor Castle fire 417

  Wingate, Sir Reginald 339

  Winterhalter, Franz Xaver 17, 243

  Wollstonecraft, Mary 43–6, 59–66, 70–1, 83, 104

  Vindication of Rights of Men 44, 45, Woman 45, 59

  Wolseley, Lord 282

  women 59–60, 118, 145, 154–67, 175–7, 181–6, 192–3

  education 183–6

  franchise 162–4, 326, 335

  Married Women’s Property Bill 155, 186

  Social and Political Union 325

  Society to Promote Employment of 155

  University Settlement 186

  Wood, Sir Charles 226, 228

  Woodham-Smith, Cecil 231

  Wooler, Thomas Jonathan 100, 102

  Wordsworth, Dorothy 81, 83, 86

  William 18, 53–8, 69, 80, 81–5 passim, 91, 93–5, 98, 100, 101, 105, 108, 137, 140, 260, 358, 424

  workhouses 134, 203, 228–30

  working class 134–45, 188–90, 260–2, 310–5, 335, 356, 361–4, 386

  Wright, Joseph 21

  Yalta Conference 406

  York, Duke of 90, 91

  Young, Arthur 29–30, 97, 98

  Young England 259, 260

  Yugoslavia 419

  Zionism 340

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