Index

 

7/7 ref1

9/11 ref1

Abbey National ref1

abortion ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Abortion Law Reform Association ref1

Abse, Leo ref1, ref2, ref3

Acheson, Dean ref1

acquired immune-deficiency syndrome (AIDS) ref1

Adam, Ruth ref1

Adams, Gerry ref1, ref2

Admiralty, the ref1

Afghanistan ref1

Africa ref1, ref2, ref3

agriculture ref1

AIDS (acquired immune-deficiency syndrome) ref1

airliners ref1

Aitken, Jonathan ref1

Aldermaston ref1

Allawi, Ayad ref1

al-Qaeda ref1

Amin, Idi ref1

Amis, Kingsley ref1

anarchy ref1

Anatomy of Britain (Sampson) ref1, ref2

Anderson, Ian ref1

Anderton, James ref1

Angry Brigade ref1

‘Angry Young Men’ ref1

animal rights movement ref1

anti-Americanism ref1

anti-Semitism ref1, ref2

anti-war movement ref1

Anti-Nazi League ref1, ref2

Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) ref1

appeasement ref1

Apprentice Boys of Derry ref1

Arab nationalism ref1

arms race ref1

art colleges ref1

Argentina see Falklands War

Arts Council ref1

ASBOs (Anti-Social Behaviour Orders) ref1

Asda ref1

Ashdown, Paddy ref1

Astor, Lord ‘Bill’ ref1

Astor, Nancy ref1

A Streetcar Named Desire ref1

Aswan, High Dam ref1

asylum seekers ref1, ref2

see also immigration; multiculturalism

Attlee, Clement ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

Austin, Herbert ref1

Austin Seven ref1

AWACS ref1

Bailey, David ref1

Baker, Kenneth ref1

Balcon, Michael ref1

Balls, Ed ref1, ref2

Banda, Hastings ref1

Bank of England ref1, ref2, ref3

Barings Bank ref1

Barnett, Correlli ref1, ref2

Barry, Gerald ref1

BBC ref1, ref2

Beadle, Hugh ref1

Beatles, the ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Beaton, Cecil ref1

Beaumont, Hugh (Binkie) ref1, ref2

Beckett, Samuel ref1

Beeching, Richard ref1, ref2

Behan, Brendan ref1

Belgrano ref1

Bell, Martin ref1

Benn, Tony ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12

domestic policy ref1

on the Eurodollar ref1

on Europe ref1

and Labour reform ref1, ref2

Bentine, Michael ref1

Bentley, Derek ref1

Berger, Vivian ref1

Berners-Lee, Tim ref1

Bernstein, George ref1

Bevan, Nye ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Beveridge Report ref1

Beveridge, William ref1, ref2

Bevin, Ernest ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Bevins, Reggie ref1

Beyond the Fringe ref1

Biba ref1, ref2

Bicknell, Franklin ref1

‘Big Bang’, City deregulation ref1

‘Big Brother’ ref1

Bin Laden, Osama ref1

bio-metrics ref1

Birch, Nigel ref1

Birthday Party, The (Pinter) ref1

Blackburn Technical College ref1

Black, Cilla ref1

black market ref1

Black Wednesday ref1

Blair, Cherie ref1

Blair, Tony ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

and Brown ref1

and Bush ref1

and celebrity ref1

and civil liberties ref1, ref2

death of Diana ref1, ref2

and the euro ref1

final years ref1

and fuel duty protests ref1

and hunting ref1

and Iraq ref1, ref2

leadership election ref1

on multi-culturalism ref1

Northern Ireland ref1

and the press ref1

resignation ref1

and Serbia ref1, ref2

and Thatcher ref1

‘war on terror’ ref1

on weapons of mass destruction ref1, ref2, ref3

Blake, George ref1

Blake, Peter ref1

Blaney, Neil ref1

Blue Streak ref1

Blunkett, David ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

‘Bloody Sunday’ ref1

Blunt, Antony ref1, ref2

Blunt, Maggie Joy ref1

BMC (British Motor Corporation) ref1

BNOC (British National Oil Corporation) ref1

Bono ref1

Boodles Club ref1

Booker, Christopher ref1

Boothby, Lord ref1

Borges, Jorge Luis ref1

Bose, Subhas Chandra ref1

Bosnia ref1

Bourne, Alec ref1

bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) ref1

Boxer, Mark ref1

Bowe, Collette ref1

Bowie, David ref1

Braddock, Bessie ref1

Braithwaite, Rodric ref1

Bramley, Ted ref1

Bretherton, Russell ref1

Britain Can Make It (1946) ref1

British Aeroplane Company ref1

British Airways ref1

British Antarctic Survey ref1

British Empire ref1, ref2

British Gas ref1, ref2, ref3

British Guild of Creative Designers ref1

British Housewives’ League ref1, ref2

British Leyland ref1

British Medical Association ref1, ref2

British Motor Corporation (BMC) ref1

British Nationality Act ref1

British National Oil Corporation (BNOC) ref1

British National Party see National Front

British Rail ref1, ref2, ref3

British Steel ref1

British Telecom (BT) ref1, ref2

British Transport Commission ref1

Brixton ref1

Broccoli, Albert ‘Cubby’ ref1

Brodie, Tom see Glorious Glosters

Brown, George ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Brown, Gordon ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

anti-poverty agenda ref1

and Blair ref1

economy ref1, ref2

and the euro ref1, ref2

fuel taxes ref1

ID cards ref1

BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) ref1

B-Specials ref1

BT (British Telecom) ref1, ref2

Buchan, Norman ref1

Bulger, James ref1

Bupa ref1, ref2

Burgess, Guy ref1, ref2

Bush, George ref1

Bush, George W. ref1, ref2, ref3

Butler, R. A. (Rab) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Butlin, Billy ref1

Buxted Chickens ref1

Byers, Stephen ref1

Caine, Michael ref1

Cairncross, John ref1, ref2

Callaghan, Jim ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

and devaluation ref1

and devolution ref1

economy ref1, ref2

and Northern Ireland ref1

and North Sea oil ref1

and trade unions ref1

Cameron, David ref1, ref2

Cameron, James ref1

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) see CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)

Campbell, Alastair ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

cannabis ref1

Caplin, Carole ref1

Cardus, Neville ref1

cars ref1, ref2

see also Mini-Minor

Carmichael, Stokely ref1

Casino Royale ref1

Castle, Barbara ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

pensions ref1

road safety ref1

Catling, Susan ref1

Caulcott, Tom ref1

CCTV ref1, ref2

celebrity ref1, ref2, ref3

censorship ref1, ref2, ref3

see also Lady Chatterley trial

Central African Federation ref1

Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS) ref1

centralism ref1

Chamberlain, Neville ref1

CERN ref1

Chevaline ref1, ref2

child-centred teaching ref1

Child Poverty Action Group ref1

Chirac, Jacques ref1

Churchill, Winston ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

on the atomic bomb ref1

on social class ref1

cinema ref1, ref2, ref3

Citizen’s Charter ref1

City, the ref1

City Technology Colleges (CTCs) ref1

civil liberties ref1, ref2

CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) ref1

Clapton, Eric ref1

Clark, Alan ref1

Clarke, Charles ref1

Clarke, Kenneth ref1, ref2, ref3

Clarke, Otto ref1

Clash, the ref1

class, social ref1, ref2, ref3

Clause four ref1

Clayton, William ref1

cleanliness ref1

climate change see global warming

Clinton, Bill ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Cliveden, Buckinghamshire ref1

clothes ref1, ref2

Clwyd, Ann ref1

CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) ref1

Scottish ref1

see also unilateral nuclear disarmament

coal industry ref1

see also miners

cocaine ref1

Cockburn, Claud ref1

coffee bars ref1

Cohen, Andrew ref1

Cohen, Jack ref1

Cole, E. A. ref1

Colonial Office ref1, ref2

Commission for Africa ref1, ref2

Commonwealth ref1, ref2

Commonwealth Immigrants Act ref1, ref2

Communism ref1

Communist Party of Great Britain ref1

Compton, Denis ref1

computers ref1

Connery, Sean ref1

Connolly, Billy ref1

Connolly, Cyril ref1

Conservative Party ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Constitutional Convention ref1

consumerism ref1, ref2

‘control orders’ ref1

Cook, Frederick ref1

Cook, Peter ref1, ref2, ref3

Cook, Robin ref1, ref2

Cotton, Jack ref1

council houses ref1

Council of Industrial Design ref1

council tax inspectors ref1

counter-culture ref1

see also culture

Country Life ref1

Countryside Alliance ref1, ref2

Cousins, Frank ref1

Coward, Noël ref1, ref2, ref3

CPRS (Central Policy Review Staff) ref1

crack cocaine ref1

Craig, Christopher ref1

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) ref1

cricket ref1

crime ref1, ref2

Cripps, Stafford ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Critchley, Julian ref1

Cromer, Lord ref1

Crosland, Tony ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

Crossman, Dick ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

CTCs (City Technology Colleges) ref1

Cuban missile crisis ref1

culture ref1, ref2, ref3

see also counter-culture

Daily Express ref1

Daily Mirror ref1

Dalton, Hugh ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Dalyell, Tam ref1, ref2, ref3

Davies, Gavyn ref1, ref2

Davies, Ray ref1, ref2

Davies, Ron ref1

DEA (Department of Economic Affairs) ref1

Dearlove, Richard ref1

Debord, Guy ref1, ref2

dept cancellation programme ref1

debutantes ref1

decimalization ref1

decolonization ref1

defence ref1

Delors, Jacques ref1

democracy, local ref1

demography ref1, ref2

Denning, Lord ref1

Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) ref1

Desert Fox ref1

Deutschmark ref1

devaluation, of the pound ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

devolution ref1

Labour on ref1

Scotland ref1, ref2

Wales ref1, ref2, ref3

Devine, George ref1

Dewar, Donald ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Diana, Princess ref1, ref2

Diana – the True Story (Morton) ref1

Dior, Christian ref1

directive 10/65 ref1

divorce ref1, ref2

Divorce Reform Act ref1

DNA ref1

Dobson, Frank ref1

Dome of Discovery ref1

domestic policy ref1, ref2

Donovan, Terence ref1

‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ ref1

Draper, Derek ref1

Driberg, Tom ref1, ref2

drugs ref1

du Cannes, Edward ref1

Dulles, John Foster ref1, ref2, ref3

Duncan Smith, Iain ref1

Dury, Ian ref1

Dyke, Greg ref1, ref2, ref3

Ealing studios see Balcon, Michael

Ecclestone, Bernie ref1

Economist, The ref1

economy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

under Callaghan ref1, ref2

under Churchill ref1

City, the ref1

Europe, payments to ref1

France ref1

under Heath ref1

Joseph ref1, ref2

under Lawson ref1, ref2, ref3

under Macmillan ref1

New Labour ref1

and North Sea oil ref1

and Powell ref1

under Thatcher ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

United States of America ref1

wartime ref1

under Wilson ref1, ref2

Eden, Anthony ref1, ref2

social class ref1

and Suez ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

education ref1

New Labour ref1

reform ref1

see also faith schools; public schools

Edwardes, Michael ref1

Egypt ref1

Einstein, Albert ref1

Eisenhower, Dwight ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

electric guitars ref1

eleven plus examination ref1

Eliot, T. S. ref1

Elizabeth II ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

and the death of Diana ref1

Elizabeth, Princess see Elizabeth II

Ellis, Ruth ref1

Elms, Robert ref1

emigration ref1, ref2

energy ref1

Enfield, Harry ref1, ref2

English Stage Company ref1

Ennals, David ref1

Eno, Brian ref1

Enragés, Les ref1

environment see global warning

Epstein, Brian ref1

ERM ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Establishment ref1

Establishment Club ref1

ethnic cleansing ref1, ref2

Eton, Peter ref1

euro, the ref1

Blair and ref1

Brown and ref1

see also ‘hard ecu’

Eurodollar ref1, ref2

Europe ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Benn on ref1

Churchill’s attitude to ref1

Jenkins on ref1, ref2

payments to ref1

Powell on ref1

referenda on ref1

Thatcher and ref1, ref2, ref3

Wilson and ref1, ref2

European Economic Community ref1

European Exchange Rate system see ERM

Evans, Gwynfor ref1

Evans, John ref1

Everton, Marcel ref1

Ewing, Winnie ref1

Exodus ref1

Fachs, Klaus ref1

Fairlie, Henry ref1

Fairport Convention ref1

faith schools ref1

Falkender, Lady see Williams, Marcia

Falklands War ref1

Farouk ref1

fashion ref1, ref2

Fellatio, Masochism, Politics and Love (Abse) ref1

Festival of Britain (1951) ref1, ref2

Fidler, Sheppard ref1

finance, North Sea oil ref1

Financial Times ref1

First of May group ref1

Fisher, Antony ref1, ref2

Fisher, Jack ref1

fishing ref1

Fleming, Ann ref1

Fleming, Ian ref1

folk music ref1, ref2

food ref1, ref2

football ref1

Foot, Michael ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Foot, Paul ref1

Forbes, William Francis see Semphill, Master of

Ford, Henry III ref1

foreign policy ref1, ref2

under Churchill ref1

under Wilson ref1

Forster, E. M. ref1

Forte, Charles ref1

Fowler, Norman ref1

fox hunting see hunting

France

economy ref1

and Suez ref1, ref2

uprisings in ref1

Francis, Dai ref1

Fraser, Hugh ref1

Fraser, Lord ref1

Frayn, Michael ref1, ref2

Free Officers Movement ref1

Free Wales Army ref1

French, Godfrey ref1

Friedman, Milton ref1

Frisch, Otto ref1

Frognal Set ref1

Frost, David ref1

fuel, protests about duty ref1

Funding Agency for Schools ref1

Future of Socialism, The (Crosland) ref1

‘Gaia’ theory ref1

Gaitskell, Hugh ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

Galtieri, Leopold ref1

gardening ref1

Gaulle, Charles de ref1, ref2

and Macmillan ref1

Geilgud, John ref1

Geldof, Bob ref1

general election

1945 ref1

1950 ref1

1970 ref1

1992 ref1

1997 ref1

2005 ref1

General Strike (1926) ref1

George VI ref1

German Central Bank ref1, ref2

Ghandi, Mohandas Karamchand ref1

Gibbs, Humphrey ref1

Gibson, David ref1

Gibson, William ref1

Gilligan, Andrew ref1

Gladstone, William Ewart ref1

global warming ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Glorious Glosters ref1

Goldfinger, Erno ref1

Golding, William ref1

Goldsmith, James ref1

Good Friday Agreement ref1

Goodison, Nicholas ref1

Goon Show, The ref1, ref2

Gorbachev, Mikhail ref1

government ref1

and the BBC ref1

big ref1

Conservative ref1

post-nuclear ref1

Gould, Philip ref1

Gow, Ian ref1

GPS systems ref1

greyhound racing ref1

Griffith–Jones, Mervyn ref1

Griffiths, Jim ref1

Grimond, Jo ref1, ref2, ref3

Grundy, Bill ref1

Guinness, Alec ref1

Gulf War see Iraq

Gummer, Cordelia ref1, ref2

Gummer, John Selwyn ref1

Hague, William ref1

Haig, Alexander ref1

Hailsham, Lord ref1

Haines, Joe ref1

Halifax, Lord ref1, ref2

Hall, Peter ref1

Hamilton, Neil ref1

Hamilton, Richard ref1

Hammer, Armand ref1

Hampstead Set ref1

hanging abolition of ref1, ref2

‘hard ecu’ ref1

see also euro

Harper’s Bazaar ref1

Hattersley, Roy ref1

Hatton, Derek ref1

Haughey, Charles ref1

Harvey, Ian ref1

Hayek, Friedrich von ref1

Healey, Denis ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

and the IMF ref1

Labour reform ref1, ref2

health ref1

Heath, Edward ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Britain under ref1

economy ref1

and Europe ref1

and immigration ref1

and Northern Ireland ref1

Heathfield, Peter ref1

Heffer, Eric ref1

Hello! ref1, ref2

Henderson, Hamish ref1

Hennessy, Peter ref1, ref2

Heroin ref1

Heseltine, Michael ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

Hewitt, Patricia ref1

Higgins, Terry ref1

High Dam, Aswan ref1

Hill, David ref1

H. M. Tennant Ltd ref1

Hobson, Harold ref1

holidays ref1

Holidays with Pay Act ref1

Holtham, Gerald ref1

Holy Loch ref1, ref2

Home, Alec Douglas- ref1, ref2, ref3

homosexuality ref1, ref2

legalization of ref1

purge of ref1

in the theatre ref1

see also AIDS

Horizon ref1

Hornby, Lesley ref1

housing ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

see also council houses; tower blocks

Housing Action Trusts ref1

Howard, Michael ref1, ref2

Howe, Geoffrey ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

on the Eurodollar ref1

and North Sea oil ref1, ref2, ref3

and privatization ref1

Howell, David ref1

Howells, Kim ref1

Hulanicki, Barbara see Biba

human rights ref1

Hume, John ref1

humour ref1

Hunter, Anji ref1

hunting ref1

Hunt Saboteurs Association ref1

Hurcomb, Cyril ref1

Hurd, Douglas ref1, ref2, ref3

Hussein, Saddam ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Hutton Enquiry ref1

Hutton, Len ref1

Hyman, Peter ref1

Hyndley, Viscount ref1

ICI ref1

ID cards ref1, ref2

IEA (Institute for Economic Affairs) ref1

Iki, Lieutenant ref1

IMF (International Monetary Fund) ref1

immigration ref1, ref2, ref3

Indians ref1

Kenyans ref1

Pakistani ref1

Powell on ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Ugandan Asians ref1, ref2

West Indian ref1

see also asylum seekers; multi-culturalism

immigration and nationality department (IND) ref1

India

immigrants from ref1

independence ref1

industry ref1, ref2, ref3

see also car industry; coal; rail system

inflation ref1, ref2

Ingham, Bernard ref1, ref2

Ingrams, Richard ref1, ref2, ref3

Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) ref1

International Monetary Fund (IMF) ref1

internet ref1, ref2

IQ tests ref1

IRA (Irish Republican Army) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

Iraq ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

Iran, Shah of ref1

Ireland, Republic of ref1

see also Northern Ireland

Irish ref1

Irish Republican Army (IRA) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

Irvine, Derry ref1, ref2

Islam, militant ref1

Isle of Skye bridge ref1

Israel, and Suez ref1

Issigonis, Alec ref1

Ivanov, Yevgeny ref1

Jagger, Mick ref1

Jam, the ref1

James Bond ref1

jazz ref1

Jenkins, Roy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

as Chancellor ref1

and Europe ref1, ref2

on immigration ref1

and the SDP ref1

Jenkins, Simon ref1, ref2, ref3

Jews ref1, ref2, ref3

Jinnah, Mohammad Ali ref1

Johnstone, Tom ref1

Jones, Clem ref1

Jones, Jack ref1

Jordan, model ref1

Joseph, Keith ref1, ref2

Joseph Rowntree Trust ref1

Kaufman, Gerald ref1

Keeler, Christine ref1

Kelly, David ref1

Kemp, Alex ref1

Kennedy, Charles ref1, ref2

Kennedy, John F. ref1

Kennedy, Ludovic ref1, ref2

Kenya ref1

immigrants from ref1

Kenyatta, Jomo ref1, ref2

Keynes, John Maynard ref1, ref2

Khrushchev, Nikita ref1, ref2, ref3

Kilmuir, Lord ref1

King, Cecil, and Wilson ref1

King, John ref1

Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, The (The Kinks) ref1

Kinks, the ref1, ref2, ref3

Kinnock, Neil ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

leadership election ref1

and the militants ref1

and the miners’ strike ref1

and Scargill ref1

and unilateral nuclear disarmament ref1

on Welsh devolution ref1

Koestler, Arthur ref1

Korean War ref1

Kosovo Liberation Army ref1

Kuanda, Kenneth ref1

Labour Party ref1, ref2, ref3

achievements ref1, ref2

conference, 1945 ref1

and devolution ref1

internal conflict ref1

public spending ref1

reform of ref1

see also New Labour; Scottish Labour Party

Lady Chatterley trial ref1

Lamont, Norman ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

landowners ref1

Laski, Harold ref1

Lawson, Nigel ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

and the economy ref1, ref2, ref3

and North Sea oil ref1, ref2, ref3

and the poll tax ref1

and privatization ref1, ref2, ref3

Leach, John ref1

League Against Cruel Sports ref1

League of Empire Loyalists see NF

league tables, police ref1

Leathers, Lord ref1

Lee, Jennie ref1

Lend-Lease ref1, ref2

Lennon, John ref1, ref2

lesbianism ref1

Levy, Michael ref1

Lewis, C. S. ref1

Liberal Democrats ref1

Liberal Party ref1, ref2

and the SDP ref1

Liddle, Roger ref1

LIFFE ref1

Lilley, Peter ref1

Limehouse Declaration ref1

Litterick, Tom ref1

Littlewood, Joan ref1

Live Aid ref1

Live8 ref1

Live and Let Die (Fleming) ref1

Liverpool City Council ref1

Liverpool Parks and Cemeteries ref1

Lloyd, Selwin ref1, ref2

London ref1

terrorist attacks on ref1

London Stock Exchange ref1

Look Back in Anger (Osborne) ref1, ref2

Lovelock, James ref1

LSD ref1

Lubetkin, Berthold ref1

Maastricht Treaty ref1, ref2, ref3

MacArthur, Douglas ref1

Macaulay, Sarah ref1

MacColl, Ewan ref1, ref2

Macdonald, Ian ref1

MacDonald, Margo ref1

MacGregor, Ian ref1

MacGregor, John ref1

Maclean, Donald ref1, ref2

Macleod, Iain ref1, ref2, ref3

Macmillan, Harold ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

on Africa ref1

attitude to spies ref1

on decolonization ref1, ref2

and de Gaulle ref1

and the economy ref1

and Europe ref1

and nuclear weapons ref1

and Powell ref1, ref2

social class ref1

mad cow disease ref1

Major, John ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

and the ERM ref1

as Prime Minister ref1

and Thatcher ref1

wars ref1

majority verdicts ref1

Make Poverty History ref1

Malawi see Nyasaland Malaya ref1

Manchester, Moss Side ref1

Mandelson, Peter ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

manufacturing ref1

Mao Tse-tung ref1

marches ref1

Marcuse, Herbert ref1

Marples, Ernie ref1, ref2, ref3

Marshall Plan, the ref1, ref2

Mates, Michael ref1

Mathew, Theobald ref1

Matrix Churchill ref1

Matthews, Stanley ref1

Mau Mau rebellion ref1

Maxwell Fyfe, David ref1, ref2, ref3

Mayer, Louis B. ref1

McCartney, Paul ref1, ref2, ref3

McCullin, Don ref1

McGahey, Mick ref1, ref2

McGuinness, Martin ref1, ref2

McMahan Act ref1

McLaren, Malcolm ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

McNulty, Graeme ref1

McNulty, Tony ref1

means-testing ref1

Medium-Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) ref1, ref2

Melody Maker ref1

Meyer, Anthony ref1

Microsoft ref1

Middle East ref1

Middlemass, Keith ref1

migration, Jewish ref1

Migration Watch UK ref1

Mikardo, Ian ref1

Milburn, Alan ref1, ref2

Miliband, David ref1

Militant Tendency ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

military ref1, technology ref2

Millennium Dome ref1, ref2

Miller, Arthur ref1

Miller, Jimmie see MacColl, Ewan

Milligan, Spike ref1, ref2

Millington, Ernest ref1

Milosevic, Slobodan ref1

miners, strikes ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Mini-Minor ref1

minimum wage ref1

mini-skirts ref1

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ref1

Ministry of Economic Expansion see DEA

Ministry of Production see DEA

Mitchell, George ref1

Mittal, Lakshmi ref1

Mitterand, François ref1

mobile phones ref1, ref2

Mods ref1

Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich ref1

monarchy ref1

Monckton, Walter ref1, ref2

Monday Club ref1

monetarism ref1, ref2

Montagu, Lord ref1, ref2, ref3

Montgomery of Alamein ref1

Moore, Jeremy ref1

Moore, Jo ref1

morality ref1

Morris, Estelle ref1

Morris Minor ref1, ref2

Morrison, Herbert ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

Morrison, Van ref1

mortgages ref1

Morton, Andrew ref1

Morton, H. V. ref1

Mosley, Oswald ref1

Mossadeq, Mohammed ref1

motorbike manufacturing ref1

Mowlam, Mo ref1, ref2, ref3

Mountbatten, Louis ref1, ref2

Mountbatten, Philip, later Prince Philip ref1

MTFS (Medium-Term Financial Strategy) ref1, ref2

Mugabe, Robert ref1, ref2

Muir, Edwin ref1

multi-culturalism ref1

see also asylum seekers; immigration

Murdoch, Rupert ref1, ref2

Murray, Len ref1

music ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

see also folk; jazz; punk

music hall ref1, ref2

Myth of Decline, The (Bernstein) ref1

Nasser, Gamel Abdel ref1, ref2, ref3

National Audit Office ref1

National Coal Board ref1, ref2

National Enterprise Board (NEB) ref1

National Front (NF) ref1

National Health Service (NHS) ref1, ref2

National Health Service Trusts ref1

National Identity Register ref1

National Insurance ref1

nationalization ref1, ref2

National Party of Scotland see SNP

National Plan ref1

National Service ref1

National Theatre ref1

National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) ref1

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) ref1

Neave, Airey ref1, ref2

NEB (National Enterprise Board) ref1

Neighbours ref1

Nehru, Jawaharlal ref1

Neophiliacs, The (Booker) ref1

New Deal ref1

New Democrats ref1

New Labour ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

economy ref1

education ref1

public spending ref1

scandals ref1

New Look ref1

News of the World ref1

New Statesman ref1, ref2

NHS (National Health Service) ref1, ref2

Niemasz, Hendrick ref1

‘Night of the Long Knives, the’ ref1

Nixon, Richard ref1

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ref1

Northern Ireland ref1, ref2, ref3

and Major ref1

peace process ref1

North Sea, oil ref1

Nott-Bower, John ref1

Nottinghamshire, miners ref1

Notting Hill ref1

Novello, Ivor ref1

nuclear power ref1

nuclear weapons ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

see also unilateral nuclear disarmament; weapons of mass destruction

Nuffield, Lord ref1

NUM (National Union of Mineworkers) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

NUPE (National Union of Public Employees) ref1

Nuttall, Jeff ref1

Nutting, Anthony ref1

Nyasaland ref1

Oborne, Peter ref1

Obscene Publications Act ref1

Office for National Statistics ref1, ref2

oil, North Sea ref1

OK! ref1

Old Vic Centre ref1, ref2

O’Leannain, John see Lennon, John

Olivier, Laurence ref1, ref2, ref3

Olympics, London ref1

Omagh bombing ref1

O’Neill, Terry ref1, ref2, ref3

Open University ref1

Operation Desert Fox ref1

Orwell, George ref1, ref2

Osborne, John ref1

Owen, David ref1, ref2

Oxbridge ref1

Oxfam ref1

Oz ref1

P&O ref1

Paisley, Ian ref1

Pakistan ref1, ref2

immigrants from ref1

Palestine ref1

Parkinson, Cecil ref1

Parkinson, C. Northcote ref1

Parnes, Larry ref1

Parsons, Anthony ref1

Passport to Pimlico ref1

Patten, Chris ref1, ref2, ref3

pay deals ref1, ref2

peace process, Northern Ireland ref1

Peierls, Rudolf ref1

Penney, William ref1

pensions ref1, ref2

PEP (Political and Economic Planning) ref1

PFI (public finance initiative) ref1

Philby, Kim ref1, ref2

Pierrepoint, Albert ref1

Pike, Magnus ref1

Pimlott, Ben ref1

Pink Floyd ref1, ref2

Pinter, Harold ref1

Pinwright’s Progress ref1

Piper Alpha ref1

Plaid Cymru ref1

Polaris ref1, ref2

Poles ref1

Police, the ref1

police, performance league tables ref1

Political and Economic Planning (PEP) ref1

politics ref1

Pollitt, Harry ref1

poll tax ref1

in Scotland ref1

Pompidou, Georges ref1

Porter, Shirley ref1

Portillo, Michael ref1, ref2, ref3

potteries ref1

pound ref1

devaluation of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

poverty ref1

Powell, Colin ref1

Powell, Enoch ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

anti-Americanism ref1

and the economy ref1

on Europe ref1

on immigration ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

and Macmillan ref1, ref2

Powell, Jonathan ref1

prefabs ref1

Prescott, John ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

press, the ref1

see also spin

Price, Lance ref1

Priestley, J. B. ref1, ref2, ref3

Prior, Jim ref1

privacy ref1

Private Eye ref1

privatization ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Profumo affair ref1, ref2

Profumo, John ref1

prostitution ref1, ref2

Provisional Army Council ref1

‘Provos’ ref1

public finance initiative (PFI) ref1

public schools, influence on humour ref1

public spending ref1, ref2

Punch ref1

punk ref1

Pym, Francis ref1

quaintness ref1

Quant, Mary ref1, ref2

Quinn, Kimberley ref1

Rachman, Peter ref1

racialism ref1

Radcliffe, Cyril ref1

radio ref1

Radio Luxembourg ref1, ref2

Radley, school ref1

rail system ref1, ref2

privatization of ref1

Railtrack ref1, ref2

Railway Executive ref1

rates ref1

rationing ref1

Rattigan, Terence ref1

Ray, Robin ref1

Reagan, Ronald ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Redwood, John ref1, ref2

Rees-Mogg, William ref1

referenda ref1, ref2

Regina v. Penguin Books ref1

Reid, John ref1, ref2

Reid, Richard ref1

religion ref1

Rent Act ref1

Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) ref1

Resolution 1441 ref1

retail ref1

revolution ref1

Revolutionary Socialist League ref1

Reynolds, Albert ref1

Rhodes, Cecil John ref1

Rhodesia ref1

Rice-Davies, Mandy ref1

Richards, Keith ref1

Ridealgh, Mabel ref1

Ridley, Nicholas ref1

Riley, Bridget ref1

Rimmer, Victoria ref1

riots ref1

‘rivers of blood’ speech (Powell) ref1

roads ref1

Road Safety Act ref1

Road to Serfdom, The (Hayek) ref1

Robbins, Lionel ref1, ref2

Robbins Report ref1

Roberts, Alfred ref1

Roberts, Frank ref1

Robinson, Geoffrey ref1

ROBOT ref1

Rock Against Racism ref1

Rodgers, Bill ref1, ref2

Rolling Stones ref1

Rolls-Royce ref1, ref2

Rooke, Dennis ref1

Rooke, Pamela ref1

Rosen, Tubby ref1

Ross, Willie ref1, ref2

Rothermere, Lord ref1

Rothschilds Bank ref1

Roxy Music ref1

Royal Navy ref1, ref2

Royal Ulster Constabulary ref1

royal wedding (1947) ref1

RPM (Resale Price Maintenance) ref1

rubber see Malaya

Rupert Bear ref1

Rumsfeld, Donald ref1

Rushton, Willie ref1

Russell, Bertrand ref1, ref2

Russia see Soviet Union

Said, Nuri El ref1

Sainsbury’s ref1

Salisbury, Lord ref1

Salmond, Alex ref1

Saltley ref1

Sampson, Anthony ref1, ref2

Sanderson, Paul ref1

Sands, Bobby ref1

Sandys, Duncan ref1

Sangatte ref1

satire ref1

Saved (Bond) ref1

scandals, New Labour ref1

Scanlon, Hugh ref1

Scargill, Arthur ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

and Kinnock ref1

Schmidt, Helmut ref1

Schuman, Robert ref1

science ref1

Scotland

devolution ref1, ref2

folk music in ref1

nationalism in ref1

poll tax ref1

see also North Sea oil

Scott, Derek ref1

Scottish Labour Party ref1

Scottish National Party see SNP

SDP (Social Democratic Party) ref1, ref2, ref3

and Jenkins ref1

Liberal Alliance ref1

SEAQ ref1

Secombe, Harry ref1

security ref1, ref2

Seldon, Anthony ref1

Sellers, Peter ref1

Semphill, Master of ref1

Serbia ref1, ref2

SERPS (State Earnings Related Pension) ref1

services, public ref1, ref2, ref3

regulation of ref1

Sex Pistols ref1, ref2

Sexual Offences Act ref1

Sexual Offences Bill ref1

Shakespeare, William ref1

shareholding ref1

Sherman, Alfred ref1

Shinwell, Manny ref1

Short, Clare ref1, ref2

Shrewsbury School ref1

Shrimpton, Jean ref1

‘Sid’ campaign ref1

Sikorsky ref1

Sillars, Jim ref1, ref2

Simon, Lord ref1

Single European Act ref1

Silverman, Sydney ref1, ref2

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ref1

‘Situationists’ ref1

sixties, the ref1

see also celebrity; drugs; music

Skegness ref1

skiffle ref1

Skybolt, missiles ref1

sleaze ref1

‘slim’ see AIDS

Smith, Ian ref1

Smith, John ref1, ref2

Smith, T. Dan ref1

SNP (Scottish National Party) ref1, ref2, ref3

Social Contract ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Social Democratic Party see SDP

socialism ref1, ref2, ref3

Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) ref1, ref2

Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (Spuc) ref1

songs ref1

Soskice, Frank ref1

South Georgia see Falklands War

sovereignty ref1

Soviet Union ref1, ref2, ref3

Churchill’s attitude to ref1

and Suez ref1

Spaak, Paul-Henri ref1

‘special relationship’ see United States of America

Special Roads Act ref1

Specials, the ref1

speedway ref1

spies ref1

spin ref1

Spitting Image ref1

spivs ref1

Springfield, Dusty ref1

Spuc (Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child) ref1

squatting ref1

Stalin, Joseph ref1

State Earnings Related Pension (SERPS) ref1

Steel, David ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

steel industry ref1

Stern, Nicholas ref1

Stewart, Donald ref1

Stewart, J. L. ref1

‘stop the war’ demonstrations ref1

Storer, Sharon ref1, ref2

Strauss, George ref1

Straw, Jack ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Strawbs, the ref1

strikes ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

miners’ ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Strummer, Joe ref1

Suez ref1, ref2

Sun ref1

‘surveillance society’ ref1

Sure Start ref1

SWP (Socialist Workers’ Party) ref1, ref2

Talabani, Jalal ref1

Taliban, the ref1

tax ref1, ref2, ref3

fuel ref1

see also poll tax

Taylor, A. J. P. ref1, ref2

technology ref1

military ref1

Teddy boys ref1

television ref1, ref2

Templer, Gerald ref1

Temple, William ref1, ref2

Temporary Housing Programme ref1

Terrence Higgins Trust ref1, ref2

Tesco ref1

Thalidomide ref1

Thames Today ref1

Thames Water ref1

Thatcher, Denis ref1, ref2

Thatcher, Margaret ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

and Blair ref1

downfall ref1

and the economy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

and education ref1, ref2

on the Eurodollar ref1

and Europe ref1, ref2, ref3

and the Falklands War ref1

health ref1

and Major ref1

on majority verdicts ref1

and the miners ref1

and North Sea oil ref1, ref2

policy ref1

and the press ref1

and privatization ref1, ref2

and the Westland Helicopter crisis ref1

Thatcherism ref1, ref2

That Was the Week That Was ref1

theatre ref1

Theatre of Action see Theatre Workshop

Theatres Act ref1

Theatre Workshop ref1

This Morning ref1, ref2

Thomas, Richard ref1

Thompson, Harry ref1

Thompson Scottish Petroleum ref1

Thornycroft, Peter ref1

Thorpe, Jeremy ref1, ref2

three-day working week ref1

Tickell, Crispin ref1

Times, The ref1, ref2, ref3

Todd, Garfield ref1, ref2

tower blocks ref1

Toxteth ref1

trade unions ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

transport ref1

travel ref1

Treasury, the ref1

Treaty of Rome ref1

Trimble, David ref1

Tryweryn reservoir ref1

‘tripartism’ ref1

Truman, Harry S. ref1, ref2

Tull, Jethro ref1

TURNSTILE ref1

TVam ref1

Twiggy ref1

Tynan, Kenneth ref1, ref2

Tyndall, John ref1

UB40 ref1

UBS ref1

UDI (Unilateral Declaration of Independence) see Rhodesia

Uganda, immigrants from ref1, ref2

unemployment ref1

Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) see Rhodesia

unilateral nuclear disarmament ref1

see also CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

United Nations ref1

United States of America

economy ref1

and the Falklands War ref1, ref2, ref3

and Great Britain ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

and Iraq ref1, ref2

music ref1, ref2

and North Sea oil ref1, ref2

nuclear weapons ref1

and Serbia ref1

and Suez ref1

terrorist attacks on ref1, ref2

and the Westland Helicopter crisis ref1

university system ref1

Uranium 235 ref1

Ure, Midge ref1

utilities ref1, ref2

Vaneigem, Raoul ref1

Varela, Marquesa de ref1

Varley assurances ref1

Vassall, John ref1

V-bombers ref1

Verwoerd, Hendrik ref1

Vicious, Sid ref1

Vietnam ref1

Vietnam Solidarity Committee ref1

Vinson, Fred ref1

Waiting for Godot (Beckett) ref1

Walden, Brian ref1

Wales

devolution ref1, ref2, ref3

miners in ref1

Walters, Alan ref1, ref2

Wanless, Derek ref1

war ref1

and Churchill ref1

and Major ref1

on terror ref1, ref2, ref3

see also Falklands War; Gulf War; Korean War; World War II; Yom Kippur War

Ward, Stephen ref1

Watton, Harry ref1

Waugh, Evelyn ref1

Wavell, Archibald Percival ref1

wealth, redistribution of ref1

weapons of mass destruction ref1, ref2, ref3

Webster, Martin ref1

Welensky, Roy ref1, ref2

Welfare State ref1, ref2

West Indies, immigrants from ref1

Westland Helicopter crisis ref1

Westwood, Vivienne ref1, ref2

Whelan, Charlie ref1, ref2

Whisky Galore! ref1

Whitehouse, Mary ref1

Whitelaw, Willie ref1

White Panthers ref1

Who, the ref1, ref2

Wigg, George ref1

Wilde, Oscar ref1

Wildeblood, Peter ref1, ref2, ref3

Wilkinson, Ellen ref1

Williams, Marcia ref1, ref2

Williams, Shirley ref1, ref2

Williams, W. E. ref1

Wilson, Harold ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

and Cecil King ref1

domestic policy ref1

and Europe ref1, ref2

foreign policy ref1

and Northern Ireland ref1

nuclear weapons ref1

and Rhodesia ref1

style of government ref1

and Vietnam ref1

Winchester Castle ref1

Windscale ref1

Winston, Robert ref1

winter, 1947 ref1

winter of discontent ref1

Wolfe, Billy ref1

Wolfenden, John Frederick ref1, ref2

Wolmer, Christian ref1

women ref1

Wood, Kingsley ref1

World Health Organization ref1

World War II ref1

Yarwood, Mike ref1

Yom Kippur War ref1

Young, Hugo ref1

Young, Michael ref1, ref2

Ziegler, Philip ref1

Zimbabwe see Rhodesia

Zuckerman, Solly ref1