Twentieth-Century Britain : An Encyclopedia-US-ISBN:9780820451084 (Paper cover book)
REVISED Edition
Leventhal, F. M. (EDT) /Publisher:Peter Lang Pub Inc Published 2002/11
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Table of Contents
Topical contents xi
Preface xvii
Chronology xix
Abbreviations xxxi
Abortion 1 (1)
Actors and Acting 2 (1)
Adult Education 3 (2)
Ageing 5 (1)
Allen, (Reginald) Clifford (1889-1939) 6 (1)
Angell [Lane], [Ralph] Norman (1872-1967) 7 (1)
Anglicanism: see Chruch of England 8 (1)
Anglo-American Relations 8 (2)
Anti-Semitism 10 (1)
Appeasement 11 (3)
Architecture 14 (4)
Army 18 (2)
Arts Council of Great Britain 20 (1)
Ashton, Frederick (1904-1988) 21 (2)
Asquith, H(erbert) H(enry) (1852-1928) 23 (1)
Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne (1879-1964) 24 (1)
Atomic Weapons: see Nuclear Weapons 25 (1)
Attlee, Clement Richard (1883-1967) 25 (2)
Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh) (1907-1973) 27 (2)
Automobile Industry 29 (2)
Aviation 31 (1)
Ayckbourn, Alan (1939- ) 32 (1)
Ayer, A(lfred) J(ules) (1910-1989) 33 (1)
Bacon, Francis (1909-1992) 34 (1)
Baden-Powell, Robert (1857-1941) 35 (1)
Baldwin, Stanley (1867-1947) 35 (2)
Balfour, Arthur James (1948-1930) 37 (1)
Ballet 38 (3)
Battle of Britain and Blitz 41 (1)
Baylis, Lilian Mary (1874-1937) 42 (1)
The Beatles 43 (1)
Beaverbrook, Lord [William Maxwell Aitken] 44 (1)
(1879-1964)
Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989) 45 (1)
Beecham, Thomas (1879-1961) 46 (1)
Bell, Vanessa Stephen (1879-1961) 46 (1)
Benn, Anthony Neil Wedgwood [Tony Benn] 47 (1)
(1925- )
Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold (1867-1931) 48 (1)
Bevan, Aneurin (1897-1960) 49 (2)
Beveridge, William Henry (1879-1963) 51 (1)
Bevin, Ernest (1881-1951) 52 (2)
Birth Control 54 (2)
Black People in Britain 56 (3)
Blair, Anthony Charles Linton (1953- ) 59 (2)
Blatchford, Robert Peel Glanville (1851-1943) 61 (1)
Bloomsbury Group 61 (2)
Boer [South African] War (1899-1902) 63 (2)
Bonar Law, Andrew (1858-1923) 65 (1)
Bowen, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole (1899-1973) 66 (1)
Brailsford, H(enry) N(oel) (1873-1958) 67 (2)
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 69 (2)
BBC Overseas Broadcasting 71 (1)
British Council 72 (1)
Brittain, Vera Mary (1893-1970) 73 (1)
Britten, (Edward) Benjamin (1913-1976) 74 (1)
Brooke, Rupert Chawner (1887-1915) 75 (1)
Butler, R(ichard) A(usten) (1902-1982) 76 (2)
Cabinet 78 (2)
Callaghan, (Leonard) James (1912- ) 80 (1)
Cambridge, University of 81 (1)
Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament 82 (1)
Campbell-Bannerman, Henry (1836-1908) 83 (1)
Capital Punishment 84 (1)
Carson, Edward Henry (1854-1935) 85 (1)
Catholicism: see Roman Catholicism 86 (1)
Chamberlain, (Joseph) Austen (1863-1937) 86 (1)
Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville (1868-1940) 87 (1)
Chemistry 88 (2)
Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith) (1874-1936) 90 (1)
Children's Literature 90 (2)
Christie, Agatha Miller (1890-1976) 92 (1)
Church of England 93 (2)
Churchill, Winston Spencer (1874-1965) 95 (3)
Citrine, Walter McLennan (1887-1983) 98 (1)
City of London 98 (2)
Civil Service 100 (2)
Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie (1903-1983) 102 (1)
Clearing Banks 103 (2)
Cliveden Set 105 (1)
Clothing and Fashion 106 (2)
Coal Mining 108 (2)
Codebreaking 110 (1)
Cole, G(eorge) D(ouglas) H(oward) (1889-1959) 111 (1)
Committee of Imperial Defence (1902-1939) 112 (1)
Commonwealth 113 (3)
Commonwealth Literature 116 (2)
Communist Party of Great Britain 118 (2)
Composers and Music 120 (3)
Compton-Burnett, Ivy (1884-1969) 123 (1)
Conard, Joseph (1857-1924) 124 (1)
Conscientious Objection 125 (2)
Conscription 127 (2)
Conservative Party 129 (4)
Cooperative Movement 133 (1)
Council for the Encouragement of Music and 134 (1)
the Arts (CEMA)
Council Housing 135 (2)
Country Houses 137 (1)
Coward, Noel Pierce (1899-1973) 138 (1)
Crick, Francis (1916- ) 139 (1)
Cricket 139 (2)
Crime 141 (1)
Cripps, (Richard) Stafford (1889-1952) 142 (2)
Crosland, (Charles) Anthony Raven (1918-1977) 144 (1)
Curzon, George Nathaniel (1859-1925) 144 (2)
Dalton, (Edward) Hugh John Neale (1887-1962) 146 (1)
Dawson, Geoffrey (1874-1944) 147 (1)
Day Lewis, Cecil (1904-1972) 148 (1)
Decolonization 149 (2)
Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) 151 (1)
Delius, Frederick Theodore Albert (1862-1934) 152 (1)
Design 153 (2)
Detective Fiction 155 (1)
de Valois, Ninette (1898-2001) 156 (1)
Devolution, Scottish and Welsh 157 (2)
Diet and Nutrition 159 (1)
Divorce and Divorce Law Reform 160 (2)
Documentary Film 162 (2)
Dole, The 164 (1)
Drama 165 (2)
Dunkirk (26 May-4 June 1940) 167 (1)
Economic Performance 168 (2)
Eden, (Robert) Anthony (1897-1977) 170 (1)
Education Act of 1944 171 (1)
Edward VII (1841-1910) 172 (1)
Edward VIII (1894-1972) 173 (2)
El Alamein, Battle of 175 (1)
Electoral System 175 (2)
Elgar, Edward William (1857-1934) 177 (1)
Eliot, T(homas) S(tearns) (1888-1965) 178 (2)
Elizabeth II (1926- ) 180 (3)
Emigration 183 (2)
Epstein, Jacob (1880-1959) 185 (1)
Equal Pay Movement 186 (1)
European Community: see European Union 187 (1)
European Union [formerly European Community] 187 (3)
Fabian Society 190 (1)
Falklands War 191 (1)
Family Allowances 192 (1)
Fascism 193 (1)
Fashion: see Clothing and Fashion 194 (1)
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett (1847-1929) 194 (1)
Feminism 195 (2)
Festival of Britain, 1951 197 (2)
Film Industry 199 (2)
First World War: Homefront (1914-1918) 201 (2)
First World War: Military (1914-1918) 203 (3)
Fleming, Alexander (1881-1955) 206 (1)
Fonteyn, Margot (1919-1991) 206 (1)
Foot, Michael Mackintosh (1913- ) 207 (1)
Football 207 (2)
Ford, Ford Madox (1873-1939) 209 (1)
Forster, E(dward) M(organ) (1879-1970) 209 (3)
Freud, Lucian (1922- ) 212 (1)
Friends, Society of [Quakers] 212 (2)
Fry, Roger Eliot (1866-1934) 214 (2)
Gaitskell, Hugh Todd Naylor (1906-1963) 216 (1)
Gallipoli 217 (1)
Galsworthy, John (1867-1933) 218 (1)
Garden Cities 219 (1)
Gardiner, A(lfred) G(eorge) (1865-1946) 220 (1)
Garvin, J(ames) L(ouis) (1868-1947) 221 (1)
General Strike (4-12 May 1926) 222 (1)
George V (1865-1936) 223 (2)
George VI (1895-1952) 225 (1)
Gill, (Arthur) Eric Rowton (1882-1940) 225 (2)
Gold Standard 227 (1)
Golding, William (1911-1993) 228 (1)
Gollancz, Victor (1893-1967) 228 (2)
Government of India Act (1935) 230 (1)
Grant, Duncan James Corrowr (1885-1978) 231 (1)
Graves, Robert von Ranke (1895-1985) 231 (1)
Greene, (Henry) Graham (1904-1991) 232 (2)
Grey, Edward (1862-1933) 234 (1)
Guild Socialism 235 (2)
Haig, Douglas (1861-1928) 237 (1)
Haldane, J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson) 238 (1)
(1892-1964)
Haldane, R(ichard) B(urdon) (1856-1928) 239 (1)
Halifax, Earl of [Edward Frederick Lindley 240 (1)
Wood] (1881-1959)
Hammond, J(ohn) L(awrence) (Le Breton) 241 (1)
(1872-1949) and (Lucy) Barbara (1873-1961)
Hardie, (James) Keir (1856-1915) 242 (1)
Health of the Population 243 (3)
Health, Edward Richard George (1916- ) 246 (1)
Henderson, Arthur (1863-1935) 247 (2)
Hepworth, Barbara (1903-1975) 249 (1)
Historic Preservation 250 (1)
Hitchcock, Alfred (1899-1980) 251 (1)
Hoare, Samuel John Gurney (1880-1959) 252 (1)
Hobson, J(ohn) A(tkinson) (1858-1940) 253 (2)
Hockney, David (1937- ) 255 (1)
Holst, Gustavus Theodore von (1874-1934) 256 (1)
Home, Alec [Alexander Frederick] Douglas- 256 (2)
(1903-95)
Home Guard 258 (1)
Homosexuality 258 (2)
Horse Racing 260 (1)
Hospitals 260 (2)
Hotels 262 (1)
Hours of Work 263 (1)
House of Lords 264 (1)
Housing 265 (3)
Huxley, Aldous Leonard (1894-1963) 268 (1)
Huxley, Julian Sorell (1887-1975) 269 (1)
Immigration 270 (2)
Imperial Preference 272 (1)
Independent Labour Party 273 (2)
India, Partition of 275 (1)
Indian Nationalism 276 (2)
International Brigade 278 (1)
Internment of Enemy Aliens 279 (1)
Irish Land Purchase Act (1903) 280 (1)
Irish Literature 281 (1)
Irish Nationalism 282 (2)
Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw 284 (2)
(1904-1986)
Jarrow 286 (1)
Jenkins, Roy Harris (1920- ) 286 (1)
Jennings, Humphrey (1907-1950) 287 (1)
Jews 288 (2)
John, Augustus Edwin (1878-1961) 290 (1)
Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius (1882-1941) 291 (1)
Judicial System 292 (1)
Juvenile Delinquency 293 (2)
Keynes, John Maynard (1883-1946) 295 (3)
Kinnock, Neil Gordon (1942- ) 298 (1)
Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936) 298 (1)
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert (1850-1916) 299 (2)
Labour Party 301 (4)
Labour Representation Committee (1900-1906) 305 (1)
Labour Revisionism 306 (1)
Lang, Cosmo Gordon (1864-1945) 307 (1)
Lansbury, George (1859-1940) 307 (1)
Larkin, Philip Arthur (1922-1985) 308 (1)
Laski, Harold Joseph (1893-1950) 309 (2)
Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert) (1885-1930) 311 (1)
Lawrence, T(homas) E(dward) (1888-1935) 312 (1)
League of Nations 312 (2)
Leavis, F(rank) R(aymond) (1895-1978) 314 (1)
Left Book Club 314 (1)
Legal Profession 315 (1)
Leisure 316 (2)
Lend-Lease 318 (1)
Lessing, Doris May Tayler (1919- ) 318 (2)
Lewis, (Percy) Wyndham (1882-1957) 320 (1)
Liberal Party 321 (2)
Literary Criticism 323 (2)
Lloyd George, David (1863-1945) 325 (3)
London 328 (2)
London Government Since 1900 330 (2)
London School of Economics and Political 332 (1)
Science
Lutyens, Edwin Landseer (1869-1944) 333 (1)
Lytton Commission (1931-2) 334 (2)
MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve] 336 (1)
(1892-1978)
MacDonald, [James] Ramsay (1866-1937) 337 (2)
Macleod, Iain Norman (1913-1970) 339 (1)
Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold (1894-1986) 340 (2)
MacMillan, Kenneth (1929-1992) 342 (1)
MacNeice, Louis (1907-1963) 343 (1)
Major, John (1943- ) 343 (2)
[Manchester] Guardian 345 (1)
Marks and Spencer 346 (1)
Marriage 347 (1)
Martin, (Basil) Kingsley (1897-1969) 348 (1)
Masefield, John Edward (1878-1967) 349 (1)
Massingham, H(enry) W(illiam) (1860-1924) 350 (1)
Mass-Observation (1937-1949) 351 (1)
Maugham, (William) Somerset (1874-1965) 352 (1)
Maxton, James (1885-1946) 352 (1)
Means Test 353 (1)
Medical Profession 353 (2)
Medical Research 355 (2)
Merchant Banks 357 (1)
Methodism 358 (1)
Milner, Alfred (1854-1925) 359 (2)
Miners Federation of Great Britain 361 (1)
Ministry of Munitions 362 (1)
Monarchy 363 (3)
Mond, Alfred Moritz (1868-1930) 366 (1)
Montagu, Edwin Samuel (1879-1924) 367 (1)
Montgomery, Bernard Law (1887-1976) 367 (1)
Moore, G(eorge) E(dward) (1873-1958) 368 (1)
Moore, Henry Spencer (1898-1986) 369 (2)
Morel, E(dmund) D(ene) (1873-1924) 371 (1)
Morris, William (1877-1963) 372 (1)
Morrison, Herbert Stanley (1888-1965) 372 (1)
Mosley, Oswald Ernald (1896-1980) 373 (2)
Mountbatten, Louis Francis Albert Victor 375 (1)
Nicholas (1900-1979)
Multinational Corporations 376 (2)
Munich Conference 378 (1)
Murdoch, Iris (1919-1999) 379 (2)
Murray, (George) Gilbert (Aime) (1866-1957) 381 (1)
Namier, Lewis Bernstein (1888-1960) 382 (1)
Nash, Paul (1889-1946) 383 (1)
Nation (1907-1931) 384 (1)
National Front 385 (1)
National Health Service 386 (2)
National Trust 388 (1)
National Union of Mineworkers 389 (2)
Nationalization and Nationalized Industries 391 (2)
Navy, Royal 393 (2)
Nevinson, C(hristopher) R(ichard) W(ynne) 395 (1)
(1889-1946)
New Liberalism 395 (2)
New Statesman (1913- ) 397 (1)
Nicholson, Ben (1894-1982) 397 (1)
Nicolson, Harold George (1886-1968) 398 (1)
1922 Committee 399 (1)
No-Conscription Fellowship (1914-1919) 399 (1)
Norman, Montagu Collet (1871-1950) 400 (1)
Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Lord 401 (1)
Northcliffe (1865-1922)
Northern Ireland 402 (4)
Novel, English, 1900-1945 406 (3)
Novel, English, since 1945 409 (2)
Nuclear Weapons 411 (1)
Nutrition: see Diet and Nutrition 412 (1)
Observer, The 413 (1)
Official Secrets Act 414 (1)
Old Age Pensions 415 (1)
Olivier, Laurence Kerr (1907-1989) 416 (1)
Open University 417 (1)
Opera and Opera Companies 417 (2)
Orchestras 419 (2)
Orwell, George (1903-1950) 421 (1)
Osborne, John James (1929-1994) 422 (1)
Owen, Wilfred Edward Salter (1893-1918) 423 (1)
Oxford, University of 424 (3)
Pacifism 427 (1)
Palestine 428 (2)
Pankhurst, Emmeline (1858-1928), Christabel 430 (2)
(Harriette) (1880-1958) (Estelle) Sylvia
(1882-1960)
Passchendaele [Third Battle of Ypres] 432 (1)
Peace Ballot 433 (1)
Peace Pledge Union 433 (1)
Periodicals 434 (1)
Philanthropy 435 (2)
Physics 437 (2)
Pick, Frank (1878-1941) 439 (1)
Pinter, Harold (1930- ) 440 (1)
Poetry, English 440 (5)
Political and Economic Planning (PEP) 445 (1)
Popular Culture 446 (3)
Popular Fiction 449 (1)
Popular Front 450 (1)
Popular Music 451 (1)
Population 452 (2)
Post-Modernism in Architecture 454 (1)
Powell, (John) Enoch (1912-1998) 455 (1)
Powell, Michael (1905-1990) 456 (1)
Pregnancy and Childbirth 457 (1)
Press, British 458 (2)
Priestley, John Boynton (1894-1984) 460 (1)
Primary Education 461 (1)
Propaganda 462 (2)
Public Health 464 (1)
Punch 465 (2)
Quakers: see Friends, Society of 467 (1)
Race Relations 467 (1)
Radar 468 (1)
Railways 469 (1)
Rathbone, Eleanor Florence (1872-1946) 470 (1)
Rationing 471 (2)
Rattigan, Terence Mervyn (1911-1977) 473 (1)
Reed, Carol (1906-1976) 473 (1)
Refugees 474 (1)
Reith, John Charles Walsham (1889-1971) 475 (1)
Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979) 476 (1)
Robbins Report (1963) 477 (1)
Roman Catholicism 477 (2)
Royal Air Force 479 (1)
Russell, Bertrand (1872-1970) 480 (2)
Rutherford, Ernest (1871-1937) 482 (1)
Samuel, Herbert (1870-1963) 483 (1)
Sankey Commission (1919) 484 (1)
Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967) 484 (1)
Sayers, Dorothy Leigh (1893-1957) 485 (1)
Scott, C(harles) P(restwich) (1846-1932) 486 (1)
Scottish Literature 487 (2)
Scottish Nationalism 489 (1)
Second World War: Homefront 490 (2)
Second World War: Military 492 (3)
Secondary Education 495 (1)
Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) 496 (2)
Sickert, W(alter) R(ichard) (1860-1942) 498 (1)
Simon, John Allsebrook (1873-1954) 499 (1)
Slums 499 (2)
Snowden, Philip (1864-1937) 501 (1)
Social Democratic Party 502 (1)
Socialist League (1932-1937) 503 (1)
Society of Friends: see Friends, Society of 504 (1)
(Quakers)
Somme, Battle of the 504 (1)
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) 505 (2)
Spark, Muriel Camberg (1918- ) 507 (1)
Spencer, Stanley (1891-1959) 507 (1)
Spender, Stephen (1909-1995) 508 (1)
Sport 509 (2)
Spy Novel, British 511 (1)
Standard of Living 512 (2)
Steel Industry 514 (2)
Stopes, Marie Charlotte Carmichael (1880-1958) 516 (1)
Stoppard, Tom (1937- ) 517 (1)
Strachey, John (1901-1963) 517 (1)
Strachey, (Giles) Lytton (1880-1932) 518 (1)
Strikes 519 (2)
Suez Crisis (1956) 521 (2)
Sutherland, Graham Vivian (1903-1980) 523 (2)
Taff Vale Judgment (July 1901) 525 (1)
Tariff Reform 525 (1)
Tawney, Richard Henry (1880-1962) 526 (1)
Taylor, Alan John Percivale (1906-1990) 527 (1)
Temple, William (1881-1944) 528 (1)
Tennis, Lawn 529 (1)
Thatcher, Margaret Hilda Roberts (1925- ) 529 (3)
Thatcherism 532 (1)
Thomas, Dylan Marlais (1914-1953) 533 (2)
Thomas, James Henry (1874-1949) 535 (1)
Thompson, E(dward) P(almer) (1924-1993) 535 (2)
Times, The 537 (1)
Tippett, Michael Kemp (1905-1998) 538 (1)
Titmuss, Richard Morris (1907-1973) 539 (1)
Tizard, Henry Thomas (1885-1959) 540 (1)
Town and Country Planning 540 (1)
Trade Union Legislation 541 (2)
Trades Union Congress (TUC) 543 (2)
Transport and General Workers' Union 545 (1)
Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876-1962) 546 (2)
Ulster: see Northern Ireland 548 (1)
Unemployment 548 (1)
Union of Democratic Control 549 (1)
University Education 550 (2)
Urban Transport 552 (4)
Vorticism 556 (2)
Wallas, Graham (1858-1932) 558 (1)
Walton, William Turner (1902-1983) 559 (1)
Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St. John (1903-1966) 559 (2)
Webb, Beatrice Potter (1858-1943) and Sidney 561 (1)
(1859-1947)
Welfare State 562 (2)
Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge) (1866-1946) 564 (2)
Welsh Nationalism 566 (1)
Wheatley, John (1869-1930) 567 (1)
Whitehead, Alfred North (1861-1947) 568 (1)
Wilkinson, Ellen (1891-1947) 568 (1)
Williams, Raymond Henry (1921-1988) 569 (1)
Wilson, Angus Frank Johnstone (1913-1991) 570 (1)
Wilson, (James) Harold (1916-1995) 571 (2)
Wodehouse, P(elham) G(renville) (1881-1975) 573 (1)
Wolfenden Report (1957) 574 (1)
Women 574 (3)
Women in Wartime (1914-1918 and 1939-1945) 577 (1)
Women's Education 578 (2)
Women's Employment 580 (2)
Women's Social and Political Union (1903-1917) 582 (1)
Women's Suffrage 583 (2)
Woolf, Leonard Sidney (1880-1969) 585 (1)
Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia Stephen (1882-1941) 586 (3)
Woolton, Earl of [Frederick James Marquis] 589 (2)
(1883-1964)
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) 591 (2)
Illustrations 593 (12)
Guide to Further Research 605 (2)
Contributors 607 (10)
Index 617
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