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Twentieth-century Britain : an encyclopedia / edited by Fred M. Leventhal.

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Leventhal, F. M., 1938-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, ©2002.
Edition:Rev. ed.
Subjects:
Great Britain > History > 20th century > Encyclopedias.
Great Britain > Civilization > 20th century > Encyclopedias.
Civilization.
Great Britain.
Reference works.
Encyclopedias.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Abortion 1
  • Actors and Acting 2
  • Adult Education 3
  • Ageing 5
  • Allen, (Reginald) Clifford (1889-1939) 6
  • Angell [Lane], [Ralph] Norman (1872-1967) 7
  • Anglicanism: see Church of England 8
  • Anglo-American Relations 8
  • Anti-Semitism 10
  • Appeasement 11
  • Architecture 14
  • Army 18
  • Arts Council of Great Britain 20
  • Ashton, Frederick (1904-1988) 21
  • Asquith, H(erbert) H(enry) (1852-1928) 23
  • Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne (1879-1964) 24
  • Atomic Weapons: see Nuclear Weapons 25
  • Attlee, Clement Richard (1883-1967) 25
  • Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh) (1907-1973) 27
  • Automobile Industry 29
  • Aviation 31
  • Ayckbourn, Alan (1939- ) 32
  • Ayer, A(lfred) J(ules) (1910-1989) 33
  • Bacon, Francis (1909-1992) 34
  • Baden-Powell, Robert (1857-1941) 35
  • Baldwin, Stanley (1867-1947) 35
  • Balfour, Arthur James (1948-1930) 37
  • Ballet 38
  • Battle of Britain and Blitz 41
  • Baylis, Lilian Mary (1874-1937) 42
  • The Beatles 43
  • Beaverbrook, Lord [William Maxwell Aitken] (1879-1964) 44
  • Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989) 45
  • Beecham, Thomas (1879-1961) 46
  • Bell, Vanessa Stephen (1879-1961) 46
  • Benn, Anthony Neil Wedgwood [Tony Benn] (1925- ) 47
  • Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold (1867-1931) 48
  • Bevan, Aneurin (1897-1960) 49
  • Beveridge, William Henry (1879-1963) 51
  • Bevin, Ernest (1881-1951) 52
  • Birth Control 54
  • Black People in Britain 56
  • Blair, Anthony Charles Linton (1953- ) 59
  • Blatchford, Robert Peel Glanville (1851-1943) 61
  • Bloomsbury Group 61
  • Boer [South African] War (1899-1902) 63
  • Bonar Law, Andrew (1858-1923) 65
  • Bowen, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole (1899-1973) 66
  • Brailsford, H(enry) N(oel) (1873-1958) 67
  • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 69
  • BBC Overseas Broadcasting 71
  • British Council 72
  • Brittain, Vera Mary (1893-1970) 73
  • Britten, (Edward) Benjamin (1913-1976) 74
  • Brooke, Rupert Chawner (1887-1915) 75
  • Butler, R(ichard) A(usten) (1902-1982) 76
  • Cabinet 78
  • Callaghan, (Leonard) James (1912- ) 80
  • Cambridge, University of 81
  • Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament 82
  • Campbell-Bannerman, Henry (1836-1908) 83
  • Capital Punishment 84
  • Carson, Edward Henry (1854-1935) 85
  • Catholicism: see Roman Catholicism 86
  • Chamberlain, (Joseph) Austen (1863-1937) 86
  • Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville (1868-1940) 87.
  • Chemistry 88
  • Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith) (1874-1936) 90
  • Children's Literature 90
  • Christie, Agatha Miller (1890-1976) 92
  • Church of England 93
  • Churchill, Winston Spencer (1874-1965) 95
  • Citrine, Walter McLennan (1887-1983) 98
  • City of London 98
  • Civil Service 100
  • Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie (1903-1983) 102
  • Clearing Banks 103
  • Cliveden Set 105
  • Clothing and Fashion 106
  • Coal Mining 108
  • Codebreaking 110
  • Cole, G(eorge) D(ouglas) H(oward) (1889-1959) 111
  • Committee of Imperial Defence (1902-1939) 112
  • Commonwealth 113
  • Commonwealth Literature 116
  • Communist Party of Great Britain 118
  • Composers and Music 120
  • Compton-Burnett, Ivy (1884-1969) 123
  • Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) 124
  • Conscientious Objection 125
  • Conscription 127
  • Conservative Party 129
  • Cooperative Movement 133
  • Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) 134
  • Council Housing 135
  • Country Houses 137
  • Coward, Noel Pierce (1899-1973) 138
  • Crick, Francis (1916- ) 139
  • Cricket 139
  • Crime 141
  • Cripps, (Richard) Stafford (1889-1952) 142
  • Crosland, (Charles) Anthony Raven (1918-1977) 144
  • Curzon, George Nathaniel (1859-1925) 144
  • Dalton, (Edward) Hugh John Neale (1887-1962) 146
  • Dawson, Geoffrey (1874-1944) 147
  • Day Lewis, Cecil (1904-1972) 148
  • Decolonization 149
  • Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) 151
  • Delius, Frederick Theodore Albert (1862-1934) 152
  • Design 153
  • Detective Fiction 155
  • de Valois, Ninette (1898-2001) 156
  • Devolution, Scottish and Welsh 157
  • Diet and Nutrition 159
  • Divorce and Divorce Law Reform 160
  • Documentary Film 162
  • Dole, The 164
  • Drama 165
  • Dunkirk (26 May-4 June 1940) 167
  • Economic Performance 168
  • Eden, (Robert) Anthony (1897-1977) 170
  • Education Act of 1944 171
  • Edward VII (1841-1910) 172
  • Edward VIII (1894-1972) 173
  • El Alamein, Battle of 175
  • Electoral System 175
  • Elgar, Edward William (1857-1934) 177
  • Eliot, T(homas) S(tearns) (1888-1965) 178
  • Elizabeth II (1926- ) 180
  • Emigration 183
  • Epstein, Jacob (1880-1959) 185
  • Equal Pay Movement 186
  • European Community: see European Union 187
  • European Union [formerly European Community] 187
  • Fabian Society 190
  • Falklands War 191
  • Family Allowances 192
  • Fascism 193
  • Fashion: see Clothing and Fashion 194
  • Fawcett, Millicent Garrett (1847-1929) 194
  • Feminism 195
  • Festival of Britain, 1951 197
  • Film Industry 199
  • First World War: Homefront (1914-1918) 201
  • First World War: Military (1914-1918) 203
  • Fleming, Alexander (1881-1955) 206
  • Fonteyn, Margot (1919-1991) 206
  • Foot, Michael Mackintosh (1913- ) 207
  • Football 207
  • Ford, Ford Madox (1873-1939) 209
  • Forster, E(dward) M(organ) (1879-1970) 209
  • Freud, Lucian (1922- ) 212
  • Friends, Society of [Quakers] 212
  • Fry, Roger Eliot (1866-1934) 214
  • Gaitskell, Hugh Todd Naylor (1906-1963) 216
  • Gallipoli 217
  • Galsworthy, John (1867-1933) 218
  • Garden Cities 219
  • Gardiner, A(lfred) G(eorge) (1865-1946) 220
  • Garvin, J(ames) L(ouis) (1868-1947) 221
  • General Strike (4-12 May 1926) 222
  • George V (1865-1936) 223
  • George VI (1895-1952) 225
  • Gill, (Arthur) Eric Rowton (1882-1940) 225
  • Gold Standard 227
  • Golding, William (1911-1993) 228
  • Gollancz, Victor (1893-1967) 228
  • Government of India Act (1935) 230
  • Grant, Duncan James Corrowr (1885-1978) 231
  • Graves, Robert von Ranke (1895-1985) 231
  • Greene, (Henry) Graham (1904-1991) 232
  • Grey, Edward (1862-1933) 234
  • Guild Socialism 235
  • Haig, Douglas (1861-1928) 237
  • Haldane, J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson) (1892-1964) 238
  • Haldane, R(ichard) B(urdon) (1856-1928) 239
  • Halifax, Earl of [Edward Frederick Lindley Wood] (1881-1959) 240
  • Hammond, J(ohn) L(awrence) (Le Breton) (1872-1949) and (Lucy) Barbara (1873-1961) 241
  • Hardie, (James) Keir (1856-1915) 242
  • Health of the Population 243
  • Heath, Edward Richard George (1916- ) 246
  • Henderson, Arthur (1863-1935) 247
  • Hepworth, Barbara (1903-1975) 249
  • Historic Preservation 250
  • Hitchcock, Alfred (1899-1980) 251
  • Hoare, Samuel John Gurney (1880-1959) 252
  • Hobson, J(ohn) A(tkinson) (1858-1940) 253
  • Hockney, David (1937- ) 255
  • Holst, Gustavus Theodore von (1874-1934) 256
  • Home, Alec [Alexander Frederick] Douglas- (1903-95) 256
  • Home Guard 258
  • Homosexuality 258
  • Horse Racing 260
  • Hospitals 260
  • Hotels 262
  • Hours of Work 263
  • House of Lords 264
  • Housing 265
  • Huxley, Aldous Leonard (1894-1963) 268
  • Huxley, Julian Sorell (1887-1975) 269
  • Immigration 270
  • Imperial Preference 272
  • Independent Labour Party 273
  • India, Partition of 275
  • Indian Nationalism 276
  • International Brigade 278
  • Internment of Enemy Aliens 279
  • Irish Land Purchase Act (1903) 280
  • Irish Literature 281
  • Irish Nationalism 282
  • Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw (1904-1986) 284
  • Jarrow 286
  • Jenkins, Roy Harris (1920- ) 286
  • Jennings, Humphrey (1907-1950) 287
  • Jews 288
  • John, Augustus Edwin (1878-1961) 290
  • Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius (1882-1941) 291
  • Judicial System 292
  • Juvenile Delinquency 293
  • Keynes, John Maynard (1883-1946) 295
  • Kinnock, Neil Gordon (1942- ) 298
  • Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936) 298
  • Kitchener, Horatio Herbert (1850-1916) 299
  • Labour Party 301
  • Labour Representation Committee (1900-1906) 305
  • Labour Revisionism 306
  • Lang, Cosmo Gordon (1864-1945) 307
  • Lansbury, George (1859-1940) 307
  • Larkin, Philip Arthur (1922-1985) 308
  • Laski, Harold Joseph (1893-1950) 309
  • Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert) (1885-1930) 311
  • Lawrence, T(homas) E(dward) (1888-1935) 312
  • League of Nations 312
  • Leavis, F(rank) R(aymond) (1895-1978) 314
  • Left Book Club 314
  • Legal Profession 315
  • Leisure 316
  • Lend-Lease 318
  • Lessing, Doris May Tayler (1919- ) 318
  • Lewis, (Percy) Wyndham (1882-1957) 320
  • Liberal Party 321
  • Literary Criticism 323
  • Lloyd George, David (1863-1945) 325
  • London 328
  • London Government Since 1900 330
  • London School of Economics and Political Science 332
  • Lutyens, Edwin Landseer (1869-1944) 333
  • Lytton Commission (1931-2) 334
  • MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve] (1892-1978) 336
  • MacDonald, [James] Ramsay (1866-1937) 337
  • Macleod, Iain Norman (1913-1970) 339
  • Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold (1894-1986) 340
  • MacMillan, Kenneth (1929-1992) 342
  • MacNeice, Louis (1907-1963) 343
  • Major, John (1943- ) 343
  • [Manchester] Guardian 345
  • Marks and Spencer 346
  • Marriage 347
  • Martin, (Basil) Kingsley (1897-1969) 348
  • Masefield, John Edward (1878-1967) 349
  • Massingham, H(enry) W(illiam) (1860-1924) 350
  • Mass-Observation (1937-1949) 351
  • Maugham, (William) Somerset (1874-1965) 352
  • Maxton, James (1885-1946) 352
  • Means Test 353
  • Medical Profession 353
  • Medical Research 355
  • Merchant Banks 357
  • Methodism 358
  • Milner, Alfred (1854-1925) 359
  • Miners Federation of Great Britain 361
  • Ministry of Munitions 362
  • Monarchy 363
  • Mond, Alfred Moritz (1868-1930) 366
  • Montagu, Edwin Samuel (1879-1924) 367
  • Montgomery, Bernard Law (1887-1976) 367
  • Moore, G(eorge) E(dward) (1873-1958) 368.

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