A History of Britain, Volume 3 (85 page)
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Authors: Simon Schama
Sleeman, Major Sir William 211, 244
Smith, Barbara Leigh 154, 155, 162
Smith, F. E., Lord Birkenhead 308, 336, 355
Smuts, Jan 338
Snowden, Philip 354, 365
Social Democratic Federation 315
socialism 252, 315, 318, 336, 353, 365, 404, 408, 413, 415
Society for Promotion of Constitutional Information 37, 45, 47
Somalia 412
South Africa 240, 273, 276, 281, 306, 307, 388
Southey, Richard 80
Soviet Union 339, 353, 366, 375, 384, 406
Nazi-Soviet pact 384, 386, 387, 402
Soyer, Alexis 167
Spain 86, 91, 366, 376, 402
Spence, Thomas 35–6, 51, 93, 100
Spring-Rice, Stephen 228
Stalin, Josef 406, 409
Stanley, Lord 262
Stead, W.T. 186, 188, 276, 316
Stein, Burton 198
Stewart, John ‘Walking’ 17–18
Stockmar, Baron Christian von 125, 150
Strachey, Lytton 173
Streicher, Julius 373
strikes 126, 136, 137, 145, 315, 337–9
passim
, 352, 355, 389, 408
Stukeley, William 16
Sudan 282, 305–6
Sudetenland 380, 381
Suez Canal 263, 281, 339, 341
crisis 297, 414
suffragette movement 325
Swanwick, Helena 185
Switzerland 80
Taff Vale decision 314, 324
Talavera, battle of 91
tanks 333
tariffs 271, 313
taxation 308, 321
passim
, 354
poll 417
Taylor, A.J.P. 383
Taylor, Harriet 155–6, 158–61, 188
Helen 162, 186
Taylor, Philip Meadows 211
Teheran Conference 407
Temple, Sir Richard 269
Tennyson, Lord 172–3, 177, 178, 192, 260
Terry, Ellen 181
Test Acts 35, 37
textiles 272, 311, 313, 318, 352
Thackeray, William Makepeace 115
Thatcher, Margaret 324, 411, 414, 415–7
passim
Thelwall, John 18, 49, 51–2, 67, 68, 80, 83, 86–7
Thicknesse, Philip 29, 31
Thistlewood, Arthur 102
Thomas, D. A. 324
Thomas, J. H. 365
Thomason, James 205, 206, 220
Thompson, George 104
Thornton, William Thomas 221
Tilak, Bal Gangadhar 288–9
Tobruk, battle of 407
Toleration Act (1689) 35
tombs 168
Tone, Theobald Wolfe 76, 77
Tonypandy 432, 389
Tories 36, 93, 94, 106, 260–1, 271, 300, 319, 323, 389, 409, 410, 415, 417
see also
Conservatives
Townsend, General Sir Charles 338
Toynbee, Arnold 374
trade 320–1, 363, 314–5, 371
trade unions 180, 190–2
passim
, 314, 315, 324, 325, 336, 337, 355, 391, 399, 415
Trades Disputes Act (1906) 324
Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act (1927) 467
Trafalgar, battle of 89
tramps 356–8
Trans-Jordan 340
transportation 105, 136, 231
travel 13–16
Trenchard, Air Marshal 335
Trevelyan, Charles 207, 210, 212–14, 215, 217, 218, 221, 222, 225–6, 227–9, 231–2, 232–3, 238, 256, 278, 279, 413
Sir Charles 353
G. M. 300, 363, 382, 387
George Otto 255, 279, 287
Triple Entente 327
Tuke, James Hack 229
Turkey 241, 275, 276, 330, 338
Turner, William 89
Tytler, Harriet/Robert 282, 289, 316–17, 340
unemployment 92, 105, 127, 133–4, 190, 322, 337, 352, 354, 360, 362, 365
insurance 318, 321, 322, 327, 335
United Nations 414
United States 108, 224, 225, 85, 169, 170, 182, 231, 272, 313, 334, 352, 359, 392, 395, 396, 411, 414, 415
Unknown Soldier, burial of 334–5
utilitarianism 156, 158, 202, 204, 259
de Valera, Eamon 289
Vallon, Annette 56, 58, 86
Vansittart, Lord 376
de Vere, Aubrey 230
Versailles, Treaty of 334, 374
Victor, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg 223
Victoria, Princess Royal 112, 149, 170, 171
Victoria, Queen 112, 116–26, 147–54, 164–5, 167, 169, 171–2, 181, 190, 196, 210, 256, 259, 262–4, 316
funeral 192
Jubilees 190–1, 196
widowhood 172–5
Vienna, Congress of 103
Vincent, Henry 136
Vinegar Hill, battle of 77
wages 92, 105, 126, 134, 135, 144, 188–9, 314, 318, 335, 352, 354
Wajid Ali Shah 245
Walcheren expedition 91
Wales 13–14, 16–17, 106, 136, 313, 315, 322, 324, 325, 416, 418, 419
Walker, Thomas 66
walking 17–18, 81, 108, 358
Wallas, Graham 318, 343
Walpole, Horace 59
Warner, George Townsend 300, 345
wars, Afghan 220, 272, 276
American Civil 169, 170; of Independence 13, 14, 15, 37, 43, 296
Boer 306, 320
Cold 412
Crimea 165–6, 169
Falklands 414
French, Revolutionary 50, 55, 58, 62–3, 66–8, 71–8; Napoleonic 85–6, 89; Peninsular 91
Irish 337, 339
Kaffir 241
Korean 412
opium 241–2
Sikh 252
Spanish Civil 366, 377, 402
World (First) 290, 329–34, 378–9; (Second) 375, 384–410
Waterloo, battle of 91, 92
Watt, Robert 55
Waugh, Evelyn 386
Wavell, General Archibald 406
Webb, Beatrice/Sidney 188, 310, 316–8, 353
Wedgwood, Col. Josiah 381
Wedgwood, Thomas 35, 55, 85
Weekly Political Register
98–9
welfare state 405, 409, 410, 411, 413, 415
Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of
Wellington 91, 99, 103, 105, 106, 115, 140
Richard, Marquess 204
Wells, H. G. 308, 309, 317–9, 334, 341–3, 375
Outline of History, The
341–3
Wesley, John 34
West, Thomas 14–15, 108
West Indies 104, 420–1
Westminster Association 37
Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John 373
Whigs 36–7, 39, 51, 105, 106, 319
‘New’ 51
Wigan 360–1, 363–4
Wilberforce, William 105
Wilhelmina, Queen 391
William III 38, 39, 42
William IV 106, 107, 119, 120, 121, 124
William V Stadholder 68
Williams, Helen Maria 55, 59, 63
Williams-Ellis, Clough 387
Williamson, Henry 375
Wilson, Harold 297, 413
Wilson, Harriette 199
Wilson, Horace Hayman 213, 214
Wilson, Woodrow 336
Windsor Castle fire 417
Wingate, Sir Reginald 339
Winterhalter, Franz Xaver 17, 243
Wollstonecraft, Mary 43–6, 59–66, 70–1, 83, 104
Vindication of Rights of Men
44, 45,
Woman
45, 59
Wolseley, Lord 282
women 59–60, 118, 145, 154–67, 175–7, 181–6, 192–3
education 183–6
franchise 162–4, 326, 335
Married Women’s Property Bill 155, 186
Social and Political Union 325
Society to Promote Employment of 155
University Settlement 186
Wood, Sir Charles 226, 228
Woodham-Smith, Cecil 231
Wooler, Thomas Jonathan 100, 102
Wordsworth, Dorothy 81, 83, 86
William 18, 53–8, 69, 80, 81–5
passim
, 91, 93–5, 98, 100, 101, 105, 108, 137, 140, 260, 358, 424
workhouses 134, 203, 228–30
working class 134–45, 188–90, 260–2, 310–5, 335, 356, 361–4, 386
Wright, Joseph 21
Yalta Conference 406
York, Duke of 90, 91
Young, Arthur 29–30, 97, 98
Young England 259, 260
Yugoslavia 419
Zionism 340
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