The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
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Huggins, Sir Godfrey (Lord Malvern)
Hughes, Billy
Hull, Cordell
Hume, David
Humphrys, Colonel Francis
Hundred Years War
Hungary
Hunter, Lord
Hurley, Major-General Patrick
Hussain, King of Jordan
Hussain, sharif of Mecca
al-Hussaini, Haj Amin
Hutchinson, Thomas
Hyder Ali Khan, Sultan of Mysore
Hyderabad
Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia
Illustrated London News
immigration see emigration
Immigration Restriction Act (1901)
Imperial Airways
Imperial Conferences
imperial federation
Imperial General Staff
imperial preference
Increase
India; East India Company; under British rule; conflicts with French in; Bengal War; acquisition of wealth in; administrators; Napoleon’s threat to; trade with Britain; Russian threat to; Mutiny; Cawnpore massacre; Victoria declared Empress of; importance to empire; self-government; North-West Frontier; Britain’s economic dependence on; government by autocratic paternalism; importance of British soldiers to; investment in; tax collection; civil service; education; move towards self-government; nationalism; emigration; German threat to; First World War; Muslim jihad; moves towards independence; Communist infiltration; sectarian disorders; Amritsar massacre; partition of; Second World War; ‘Quit India’ campaign; radio; Prince of Wales tours; independence; Churchill opposes self-government; Lend Lease; post-war expectations; and the Cold War; and the Commonwealth; Muslim-Hindu fighting; creation of Pakistan
India Acts
India Office
Indian army
Indian National Army (INA)
Indian National Congress
Indian Ocean
Indians, North American see Native Americans
Indo-China
Indomitable, HMS
Indonesia
Industrial Revolution
industry, manufacturing
Inflexible, HMS
Inland Revenue
Inquisition
intelligence services
International Monetary Fund
Inuit
investment
Ionian Islands
Iran; see also Persia
Iraq; Kurds; under British mandate; Anglo-Iraqi Treaty; oil; Second World War; British bases in; Gulf War; see also Mesopotamia
Ireland: British settlement of; French campaigns in; emigration; Home Rule; Easter Rising; Curragh Incident; republic declared; ‘Troubles’; creation of Free State; civil war; neutrality; leaves Commonwealth
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Ironside, Major-General Sir Edmund
Iroquois Confederation
Islam see Muslims
Ismail, Khedive
Ismailia
Ismay, General Lord
Isoroku, Rear-Admiral Yamamoto
Israel
Italy: ‘new imperialism’; interest in Ethiopia; occupation of Libya; Second World War; Abyssinian crisis; manufacturing industry; battleships; appeasement of; invades Albania
ITV
Ivory Coast
Jacobins
Jacobites
Jamaica
James, C.L.R.
James I, King
James II, King
Jameson, Dr Leander Starr
Jameson Raid
Japan; ‘new imperialism’; opens to Western trade; Sino-Japanese War; Anglo-Japanese alliance (1902); Russo-Japanese War; Australia mistrusts; Second World War; manufacturing industry; naval power; Singapore as defence against; belligerence; appeasement; threatens Singapore
Jauréguiberry, Admiral Jean de
Java
Jebb, Sir Gladwyn
Jellicoe, Admiral Sir John
Jenkins, Captain
Jersey, Countess of
Jerusalem
Jervis, Admiral Sir John
Jewish Agency
Jews: propaganda against; Zionism; migration to Palestine; revolt in Palestine; creation of Israel
Jhansi, Rani of
jingoism
Jinnah, Dr Muhammad
Joffre, Joseph Jacques
Johnson, Samuel
Johnson, Sir William
Johnston, Sir Harry
Joint Technical Warfare Committee
Jones, Inigo
Jones, J.J.
Jonson, Ben
Jordan
Jordanian Arab Legion
journalism
Joynson-Hicks, Sir William
Jung-lu, General
Jutland, battle of (1916)
Kaffirs
Keating, Paul
Keats, John
Kendall, Thomas
Kennedy, John F.
Kenya; under British control; development of; settlers plan coup d’état; female circumcision; Second World War; Mau Mau ‘emergency’; independence
Kenyatta, Jomo
Kerr, Philip
Keynes, John Maynard
Khalsa
Khama, Seretse
Khartoum
Khoikhois (Hottentots)
Khomeini, Ayatollah
Khyber Pass
Kiachow
Kidd, Captain
Kikuyu tribe
Killearn, Lord see Lampson, Sir Miles
Kimberley, Lord
King, Commander F.W.
King, William Mackenzie
King’s African Rifles
Kingfisher, HMS
Kingsley, Charles
Kipling, Rudyard
Kitchener, Lord
Knatchbull-Hugessen, Sir Hugh
Kofi, Asantehene of the Asante
Korda, Alexander
Korea
Korean War
Kowloon peninsula
Kruger, Paul
Krupps
Kruschev, Nikita
Kuala Kangsor
Kurdistan
Kurds
Kut-al-Amhara
Kuwait
Labouchere, Henry
Labour party: attitude to empire; class politics; and Indian independence; opposition to racism; 1945 general election; colonial policies; post-war programme; Cold War; and the Commonwealth; and the Middle East; and the Suez war; decolonisation policies; and nuclear weapons; 1964 general election
Lads Drill Association
Lagos Daily Record
Lake, General Sir Gerard
Lakes Company
Lampson, Sir Miles (Lord Killearn)
Lancashire
Lancaster
Lang, William
Larwood, Harold
Laune Ryrie, General Sir Granville de
Laurier, Sir William
Laval, Pierre
Law, Andrew Bonar
Lawrence, D.H.
Lawrence, Sir Henry
Lawrence, T.E.; as a hero; Arab Revolt; on Ireland; suggests ‘brown dominions’; attitude to Arabs; Jewish emigration to Palestine; Arab view of; Aldington’s biography of; Lawrence of Arabia (film)
le Queux, William
League of Empire Loyalists
League of Nations
League of St George
Leakey, Louis
Lebanon
Lee Kuan Yew
Leeds Mercury
Leeward Islands
Left Book Club
Leicester, Earl of
Lend Lease
Lennox-Boyd, Alan
Leopold II, King of the Belgians
Levant Company
Lévis, Chevalier de
Liaotung Peninsula
Liberal party: foreign policy; belief in free trade; and tariff reform; and Irish Home Rule
Liberia
Libya
Light, Sir James
Lin Tse-hsü
Lindsay, Brown
Linlithgow, Lord
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Liotard, Victor
Lippman, Walter
Liverpool
Livesey, Roger
Livingstone, David
Lloyd, Lord
Lloyd, Selwyn
Lloyd George, David; First World War; Middle East policy; and Ireland; and Egypt; fall from power; encourages royal tours
Lloyds insurance agents
Lobengula
Loch, Lord
Locke, John
Lockheeds
London
Long, Walter
Loraine, Commander Sir Lambton
Lord Collingwood
Loudoun, John Campbell, Earl of
Louis XIV, King of France
Louis XV, King of France
Louisbourg
Low, David
Low Countries
Loyalism, in North America
Lucknow
Luftwaffe
Lugard, Lord
Lyautey, Louis Hubert
Lyons, Joseph
MacArthur, General Douglas
Macarthur, John
Macartney, Lord
Macaulay, Thomas
Macdonald, Major J.R.L.
MacDonald, Malcolm
MacDonald, Ramsay
McGhee, George
Mackenzie, Colin
Mackinnon, Sir William
Macleod, Iain
Macmillan, Harold; relations with America; Cold War; compares Nasser to Mussolini; Suez war; decolonisation policy; ‘special relationship’ with America; and Central Africa; in South Africa; African policy
Macquarie, Lachlan
Macready, General Sir Nevill
Madagascar
Madoc
Madras
Mafeking, relief of (1900)
magazines
Maginot Line
Mahan, Captain Alfred
Mahdi
Mahdist movements
Mahratha Confederacy
Mahratha War (1817–19)
Major, John
Makarios, Archbishop
Makins, Mrs Robert
Makins, Sir Roger
Malacca
Malan, Dr
Malawi; see also Nyasaland
Malaya; spice trade; pirates; informal empire in; Second World War; trade; class snobbery; Communist guerrillas; 1948 ‘emergency’; independence
Malaysia
Malcolm, John
Malta
Maltby, Major-General Christopher
Malthus, Robert
Manchester, Duke of
Manchester Guardian
Manchuria
Manchus
Mandela, Nelson
Manila
manufacturing industry
Maoris
Marchand, Captain Jean-Baptiste
Marianna Islands
Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of
Marshall, General George C.
Marshall, Lieutenant
Marshall Aid
Marston, John
Martin, Captain Sir Henry Byam
Martinique
Marvel
Mary, Queen, consort of George V
Mary II, Queen
Maryland
Mashonaland
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Bay Company
Massey, Raymond
Matabele Wars
Mather, Cotton
Mau Mau
Maude, Angus
Mauritius
Mause, Captain William
Maxwell, C.V.
Maxwell, General Sir John
Mazzini, Giuseppe
Mboya, Tom
MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club)
Meath, Reginald Brabazon, Earl of
Mediterranean: Royal Navy forced to withdraw from; War of the Spanish Succession; Napoleonic Wars; strategic importance; naval bases; naval weakness in; Abyssinian crisis; Second World War
Meerut
Meinertzhagen, Colonel Richard
Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia
Menon, Krishna
Menzies, Robert
mercantilism
Mers-el-Kébir
Mesopotamia; see also Iraq
Methodist Church
MI5
MI6
Michael, Lewis
Middle East: nationalism; First World War; British policy; British mandate; oil; Second World War; post-war defences; post-war policies; see also individual countries
Mill, John Stuart
Milne, Field-Marshal Lord
Milner, Major James
Milner, Viscount: on Rhodes; Boer War; in Egypt; imperialism; and tariff reform; and Chinese indentured labourers; kindergarten; First World War; and Ireland
Milton, John
Ministry of Information
Minorca
Minto, Earl of
Mir Jafir
Mirza Ali Khan, Faqir of Ipi
Misr al-Fatah (Young Egypt)
missionaries; West Indies; Pacific Islands; in Africa
Mississippi River
Miwok Indians
Moçambique
Moctezuma, Emperor
Modyford, Sir Thomas
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran
Mollet, Guy
Mollinson, Mrs J.A.
Molucca Islands
Monckton, Sir Walter
Monckton Commission
Monmouth, Duke of
Monroe Doctrine
Montagu, Edwin
Montauban, General de
Montcalm, Louis-Joseph, Marquis de
Montford Brown, Colonel
Montgomery, Field-Marshal
Montgomery, General Richard
Montreal
Montrose, Duke of
Montserrat
Moran, Lord
Morant Bay insurrection (1865)
More, Kenneth
Morgan, Edward
Morning Post
Morocco
Morris, William
Morrison, Herbert
Mosul
Mountbatten, Lady
Mountbatten, Lord Louis; in charge of SEAC; in India; and Burmese independence; and Indian independence
Moyes, Private
Mugabe, Robert
Muhammad Ali, Khedive of Egypt
Muhammad Ali Khan
Mun, Thomas
Munich agreement (1938)
Musketeeer, Operation
Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim League
Muslims: in India; in West Africa; jihad against Britain, France and Russia; clashes with Hindus; creation of Pakistan; and Indian independence
Mussadiq, Dr Mohammed
Mussolini, Benito; occupation of Libya; appeal in Middle East; appeasement of; Abyssinian crisis; invades Albania; Second World War; Nasser compared to
Muzorewa, Bishop Abel
Mysore
Nagasaki
Nagpur
Naguib, General Mohammed
al-Nahas, Mustafa
Namibia see South West Africa
Nana Sahib
Nanking, Treaty of (1842)
Napier, General Sir Charles
Napier, Lord
Napoleon I, Emperor
Napoleon III, Emperor
Napoleonic Wars
Nasr-ud-Din, Shah of Persia
Nasser, Gamel Abdul: Egyptian nationalism; July Revolution; opposes Baghdad Pact; assassination plots; Suez war
Natal
national debt
National Geographic Magazine
National Review
National Service Act (1947)
National Service League
nationalism: Indian; Irish; Egyptian; Middle East
Native Americans
NATO
Nautical Almanac
Naval Defence Act (1889)
Navigation Acts
Naziism
Ndebele tribe
Negri Sembilan
negroes see blacks
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Nelson, Lord
Nepal
Netherlands: spice trade; Anglo-Dutch Wars; North American interests; Napoleonic Wars; Second World War
Neufeld, Karl
Nevis
New Britain
New England
New France
New Guinea
New Guinea Colonial Company
New Hebrides
‘new imperialism’
New South Wales
New Statesman
New York
New Zealand; trade with Britain; Maori wars; independence movement; emigration to; and the Boer War; emotional kinship with Britain; defences; First World War; race relations; and defence of Singapore; Second World War; Lend Lease; and the Cold War
New Zealand Company
Newall, Sir Cyril
Newbolt, Sir Henry
Newcastle, Duke of
Newfoundland
News of the World
newspapers
newsreels
Nicaragua
Nicholas II, Czar
Nicolson, Harold
Nigeria; Royal African Company trading station; Royal Niger Company; inhospitable conditions; palm oil trade; indirect rule of; First World War; ‘backwardness’; Communism; independence; civil war
Nightingale, Florence
Nile, River
Nine Years War
The Nineteenth Century and After
Ningpo
Niobe
Nixon, Richard
Nkomo, Joshua
Nkrumah, Kwame
Nkumbula, Harry
‘noble savage’
Nonconformism
Norfolk Island
North, Lord
North Africa
North America: establishment of colonies in; transatlantic trade; defence of colonies; immigration; wars with French in; conflicts between Britain and France in; expansion of settlements; independence movement; and the Stamp Act; War of Independence; see also Canada; United States of America
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
North Borneo; see also Borneo
North Borneo Company
The North Briton
North Sea
North-West Frontier
North-West Passage
Northcliffe, Lord
Northern Rhodesia; see also Zambia
Norway
Nott, John
Nova Scotia
Nuba Mountains
nuclear weapons
Nyasa, Lake
Nyasaland; First World War; Second World War; Central African Federation; state of emergency; Hastings Banda imprisoned; independence; see also Malawi
Observer
Ochterlony, Major-General Sir David
O’Dwyer, Sir Michael
Official Secrets Act (1912)
Ohio Company
Ohio valley
oil: Middle East; Iran
Olivier, Laurence
Oman
Omdurman, battle of (1898)
opium
Opium Wars
Orange Free State
Orangemen
Orme, Robert
Ormsby-Gore, William
Orwell, George
Osborne, John
Ottawa conference (1932)
Ottoman empire
Oude
Our Burma League
Outram, General Sir James
Oxenham, John
Pacific Ocean