Twentieth-century Britain : an encyclopedia / edited by Fred M. Leventhal.
Provides entries for key individuals and events, covering such topics as art, literature, health, politics, science, religion, social conditions, war, and women.
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Abortion |g 1 -- |t Actors and Acting |g 2 -- |t Adult Education |g 3 -- |t Ageing |g 5 -- |t Allen, (Reginald) Clifford (1889-1939) |g 6 -- |t Angell [Lane], [Ralph] Norman (1872-1967) |g 7 -- |t Anglicanism: see Church of England |g 8 -- |t Anglo-American Relations |g 8 -- |t Anti-Semitism |g 10 -- |t Appeasement |g 11 -- |t Architecture |g 14 -- |t Army |g 18 -- |t Arts Council of Great Britain |g 20 -- |t Ashton, Frederick (1904-1988) |g 21 -- |t Asquith, H(erbert) H(enry) (1852-1928) |g 23 -- |t Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne (1879-1964) |g 24 -- |t Atomic Weapons: see Nuclear Weapons |g 25 -- |t Attlee, Clement Richard (1883-1967) |g 25 -- |t Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh) (1907-1973) |g 27 -- |t Automobile Industry |g 29 -- |t Aviation |g 31 -- |t Ayckbourn, Alan (1939- ) |g 32 -- |t Ayer, A(lfred) J(ules) (1910-1989) |g 33 -- |t Bacon, Francis (1909-1992) |g 34 -- |t Baden-Powell, Robert (1857-1941) |g 35 -- |t Baldwin, Stanley (1867-1947) |g 35 -- |t Balfour, Arthur James (1948-1930) |g 37 -- |t Ballet |g 38 -- |t Battle of Britain and Blitz |g 41 -- |t Baylis, Lilian Mary (1874-1937) |g 42 -- |t The Beatles |g 43 -- |t Beaverbrook, Lord [William Maxwell Aitken] (1879-1964) |g 44 -- |t Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989) |g 45 -- |t Beecham, Thomas (1879-1961) |g 46 -- |t Bell, Vanessa Stephen (1879-1961) |g 46 -- |t Benn, Anthony Neil Wedgwood [Tony Benn] (1925- ) |g 47 -- |t Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold (1867-1931) |g 48 -- |t Bevan, Aneurin (1897-1960) |g 49 -- |t Beveridge, William Henry (1879-1963) |g 51 -- |t Bevin, Ernest (1881-1951) |g 52 -- |t Birth Control |g 54 -- |t Black People in Britain |g 56 -- |t Blair, Anthony Charles Linton (1953- ) |g 59 -- |t Blatchford, Robert Peel Glanville (1851-1943) |g 61 -- |t Bloomsbury Group |g 61 -- |t Boer [South African] War (1899-1902) |g 63 -- |t Bonar Law, Andrew (1858-1923) |g 65 -- |t Bowen, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole (1899-1973) |g 66 -- |t Brailsford, H(enry) N(oel) (1873-1958) |g 67 -- |t British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |g 69 -- |t BBC Overseas Broadcasting |g 71 -- |t British Council |g 72 -- |t Brittain, Vera Mary (1893-1970) |g 73 -- |t Britten, (Edward) Benjamin (1913-1976) |g 74 -- |t Brooke, Rupert Chawner (1887-1915) |g 75 -- |t Butler, R(ichard) A(usten) (1902-1982) |g 76 -- |t Cabinet |g 78 -- |t Callaghan, (Leonard) James (1912- ) |g 80 -- |t Cambridge, University of |g 81 -- |t Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament |g 82 -- |t Campbell-Bannerman, Henry (1836-1908) |g 83 -- |t Capital Punishment |g 84 -- |t Carson, Edward Henry (1854-1935) |g 85 -- |t Catholicism: see Roman Catholicism |g 86 -- |t Chamberlain, (Joseph) Austen (1863-1937) |g 86 -- |t Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville (1868-1940) |g 87. |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Chemistry |g 88 -- |t Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith) (1874-1936) |g 90 -- |t Children's Literature |g 90 -- |t Christie, Agatha Miller (1890-1976) |g 92 -- |t Church of England |g 93 -- |t Churchill, Winston Spencer (1874-1965) |g 95 -- |t Citrine, Walter McLennan (1887-1983) |g 98 -- |t City of London |g 98 -- |t Civil Service |g 100 -- |t Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie (1903-1983) |g 102 -- |t Clearing Banks |g 103 -- |t Cliveden Set |g 105 -- |t Clothing and Fashion |g 106 -- |t Coal Mining |g 108 -- |t Codebreaking |g 110 -- |t Cole, G(eorge) D(ouglas) H(oward) (1889-1959) |g 111 -- |t Committee of Imperial Defence (1902-1939) |g 112 -- |t Commonwealth |g 113 -- |t Commonwealth Literature |g 116 -- |t Communist Party of Great Britain |g 118 -- |t Composers and Music |g 120 -- |t Compton-Burnett, Ivy (1884-1969) |g 123 -- |t Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) |g 124 -- |t Conscientious Objection |g 125 -- |t Conscription |g 127 -- |t Conservative Party |g 129 -- |t Cooperative Movement |g 133 -- |t Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) |g 134 -- |t Council Housing |g 135 -- |t Country Houses |g 137 -- |t Coward, Noel Pierce (1899-1973) |g 138 -- |t Crick, Francis (1916- ) |g 139 -- |t Cricket |g 139 -- |t Crime |g 141 -- |t Cripps, (Richard) Stafford (1889-1952) |g 142 -- |t Crosland, (Charles) Anthony Raven (1918-1977) |g 144 -- |t Curzon, George Nathaniel (1859-1925) |g 144 -- |t Dalton, (Edward) Hugh John Neale (1887-1962) |g 146 -- |t Dawson, Geoffrey (1874-1944) |g 147 -- |t Day Lewis, Cecil (1904-1972) |g 148 -- |t Decolonization |g 149 -- |t Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) |g 151 -- |t Delius, Frederick Theodore Albert (1862-1934) |g 152 -- |t Design |g 153 -- |t Detective Fiction |g 155 -- |t de Valois, Ninette (1898-2001) |g 156 -- |t Devolution, Scottish and Welsh |g 157 -- |t Diet and Nutrition |g 159 -- |t Divorce and Divorce Law Reform |g 160 -- |t Documentary Film |g 162 -- |t Dole, The |g 164 -- |t Drama |g 165 -- |t Dunkirk (26 May-4 June 1940) |g 167 -- |t Economic Performance |g 168 -- |t Eden, (Robert) Anthony (1897-1977) |g 170 -- |t Education Act of 1944 |g 171 -- |t Edward VII (1841-1910) |g 172 -- |t Edward VIII (1894-1972) |g 173 -- |t El Alamein, Battle of |g 175 -- |t Electoral System |g 175 -- |t Elgar, Edward William (1857-1934) |g 177 -- |t Eliot, T(homas) S(tearns) (1888-1965) |g 178 -- |t Elizabeth II (1926- ) |g 180 -- |t Emigration |g 183 -- |t Epstein, Jacob (1880-1959) |g 185 -- |t Equal Pay Movement |g 186 -- |t European Community: see European Union |g 187 -- |t European Union [formerly European Community] |g 187 -- |t Fabian Society |g 190 -- |t Falklands War |g 191 -- |t Family Allowances |g 192 -- |t Fascism |g 193 -- |t Fashion: see Clothing and Fashion |g 194 -- |t Fawcett, Millicent Garrett (1847-1929) |g 194 -- |t Feminism |g 195 -- |t Festival of Britain, 1951 |g 197 -- |t Film Industry |g 199 -- |t First World War: Homefront (1914-1918) |g 201 -- |t First World War: Military (1914-1918) |g 203 -- |t Fleming, Alexander (1881-1955) |g 206 -- |t Fonteyn, Margot (1919-1991) |g 206 -- |t Foot, Michael Mackintosh (1913- ) |g 207 -- |t Football |g 207 -- |t Ford, Ford Madox (1873-1939) |g 209 -- |t Forster, E(dward) M(organ) (1879-1970) |g 209 -- |t Freud, Lucian (1922- ) |g 212 -- |t Friends, Society of [Quakers] |g 212 -- |t Fry, Roger Eliot (1866-1934) |g 214 -- |t Gaitskell, Hugh Todd Naylor (1906-1963) |g 216 -- |t Gallipoli |g 217 -- |t Galsworthy, John (1867-1933) |g 218 -- |t Garden Cities |g 219 -- |t Gardiner, A(lfred) G(eorge) (1865-1946) |g 220 -- |t Garvin, J(ames) L(ouis) (1868-1947) |g 221 -- |t General Strike (4-12 May 1926) |g 222 -- |t George V (1865-1936) |g 223 -- |t George VI (1895-1952) |g 225 -- |t Gill, (Arthur) Eric Rowton (1882-1940) |g 225 -- |t Gold Standard |g 227 -- |t Golding, William (1911-1993) |g 228 -- |t Gollancz, Victor (1893-1967) |g 228 -- |t Government of India Act (1935) |g 230 -- |t Grant, Duncan James Corrowr (1885-1978) |g 231 -- |t Graves, Robert von Ranke (1895-1985) |g 231 -- |t Greene, (Henry) Graham (1904-1991) |g 232 -- |t Grey, Edward (1862-1933) |g 234 -- |t Guild Socialism |g 235 -- |t Haig, Douglas (1861-1928) |g 237 -- |t Haldane, J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson) (1892-1964) |g 238 -- |t Haldane, R(ichard) B(urdon) (1856-1928) |g 239 -- |t Halifax, Earl of [Edward Frederick Lindley Wood] (1881-1959) |g 240 -- |t Hammond, J(ohn) L(awrence) (Le Breton) (1872-1949) and (Lucy) Barbara (1873-1961) |g 241 -- |t Hardie, (James) Keir (1856-1915) |g 242 -- |t Health of the Population |g 243 -- |t Heath, Edward Richard George (1916- ) |g 246 -- |t Henderson, Arthur (1863-1935) |g 247 -- |t Hepworth, Barbara (1903-1975) |g 249 -- |t Historic Preservation |g 250 -- |t Hitchcock, Alfred (1899-1980) |g 251 -- |t Hoare, Samuel John Gurney (1880-1959) |g 252 -- |t Hobson, J(ohn) A(tkinson) (1858-1940) |g 253 -- |t Hockney, David (1937- ) |g 255 -- |t Holst, Gustavus Theodore von (1874-1934) |g 256 -- |t Home, Alec [Alexander Frederick] Douglas- (1903-95) |g 256 -- |t Home Guard |g 258 -- |t Homosexuality |g 258 -- |t Horse Racing |g 260 -- |t Hospitals |g 260 -- |t Hotels |g 262 -- |t Hours of Work |g 263 -- |t House of Lords |g 264 -- |t Housing |g 265 -- |t Huxley, Aldous Leonard (1894-1963) |g 268 -- |t Huxley, Julian Sorell (1887-1975) |g 269 -- |t Immigration |g 270 -- |t Imperial Preference |g 272 -- |t Independent Labour Party |g 273 -- |t India, Partition of |g 275 -- |t Indian Nationalism |g 276 -- |t International Brigade |g 278 -- |t Internment of Enemy Aliens |g 279 -- |t Irish Land Purchase Act (1903) |g 280 -- |t Irish Literature |g 281 -- |t Irish Nationalism |g 282 -- |t Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw (1904-1986) |g 284 -- |t Jarrow |g 286 -- |t Jenkins, Roy Harris (1920- ) |g 286 -- |t Jennings, Humphrey (1907-1950) |g 287 -- |t Jews |g 288 -- |t John, Augustus Edwin (1878-1961) |g 290 -- |t Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius (1882-1941) |g 291 -- |t Judicial System |g 292 -- |t Juvenile Delinquency |g 293 -- |t Keynes, John Maynard (1883-1946) |g 295 -- |t Kinnock, Neil Gordon (1942- ) |g 298 -- |t Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936) |g 298 -- |t Kitchener, Horatio Herbert (1850-1916) |g 299 -- |t Labour Party |g 301 -- |t Labour Representation Committee (1900-1906) |g 305 -- |t Labour Revisionism |g 306 -- |t Lang, Cosmo Gordon (1864-1945) |g 307 -- |t Lansbury, George (1859-1940) |g 307 -- |t Larkin, Philip Arthur (1922-1985) |g 308 -- |t Laski, Harold Joseph (1893-1950) |g 309 -- |t Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert) (1885-1930) |g 311 -- |t Lawrence, T(homas) E(dward) (1888-1935) |g 312 -- |t League of Nations |g 312 -- |t Leavis, F(rank) R(aymond) (1895-1978) |g 314 -- |t Left Book Club |g 314 -- |t Legal Profession |g 315 -- |t Leisure |g 316 -- |t Lend-Lease |g 318 -- |t Lessing, Doris May Tayler (1919- ) |g 318 -- |t Lewis, (Percy) Wyndham (1882-1957) |g 320 -- |t Liberal Party |g 321 -- |t Literary Criticism |g 323 -- |t Lloyd George, David (1863-1945) |g 325 -- |t London |g 328 -- |t London Government Since 1900 |g 330 -- |t London School of Economics and Political Science |g 332 -- |t Lutyens, Edwin Landseer (1869-1944) |g 333 -- |t Lytton Commission (1931-2) |g 334 -- |t MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve] (1892-1978) |g 336 -- |t MacDonald, [James] Ramsay (1866-1937) |g 337 -- |t Macleod, Iain Norman (1913-1970) |g 339 -- |t Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold (1894-1986) |g 340 -- |t MacMillan, Kenneth (1929-1992) |g 342 -- |t MacNeice, Louis (1907-1963) |g 343 -- |t Major, John (1943- ) |g 343 -- |t [Manchester] Guardian |g 345 -- |t Marks and Spencer |g 346 -- |t Marriage |g 347 -- |t Martin, (Basil) Kingsley (1897-1969) |g 348 -- |t Masefield, John Edward (1878-1967) |g 349 -- |t Massingham, H(enry) W(illiam) (1860-1924) |g 350 -- |t Mass-Observation (1937-1949) |g 351 -- |t Maugham, (William) Somerset (1874-1965) |g 352 -- |t Maxton, James (1885-1946) |g 352 -- |t Means Test |g 353 -- |t Medical Profession |g 353 -- |t Medical Research |g 355 -- |t Merchant Banks |g 357 -- |t Methodism |g 358 -- |t Milner, Alfred (1854-1925) |g 359 -- |t Miners Federation of Great Britain |g 361 -- |t Ministry of Munitions |g 362 -- |t Monarchy |g 363 -- |t Mond, Alfred Moritz (1868-1930) |g 366 -- |t Montagu, Edwin Samuel (1879-1924) |g 367 -- |t Montgomery, Bernard Law (1887-1976) |g 367 -- |t Moore, G(eorge) E(dward) (1873-1958) |g 368. |
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