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  • 11-plus examination
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  • 1941 Committee
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  • abdication crisis (1936)
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  • Aberdeen
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  • Acland, Sir Richard
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  • Air Raid Precautions (ARP)
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  • air raids
    • air-raid wardens
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    • Baedeker raids
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    • Blitz
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    • civilian casualties
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    • ‘nuisance raids’
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    • V-1 and V-2 bombs
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  • Algeria
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  • amateur dramatics
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  • American GIs
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  • Amery, Leo
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  • Anderson shelters
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  • Anglesey
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  • anti-aircraft fire
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  • Anzac Day
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  • appeasement policy
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  • Argentina
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  • Arromanches
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  • Athenia
    , sinking of
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  • Atkinson, Margaret
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  • Atlantic Wall
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  • atomic bomb
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  • Attlee, Clement
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  • Azad Hind
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  • ‘baby blitz’
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  • Badoglio, Marshal
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  • Baedeker raids
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  • Bankhead, Tallulah
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  • Bardia
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  • Barrow-in-Furness
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  • Basic English
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  • Bath
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  • Battle of Britain
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  • Battle of France
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  • Bayeux
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  • BBC
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    • see also
      individual programmes
  • Beaverbrook, Lord
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  • Belgium
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    • surrender of
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  • Belsen
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  • Berlin
    • Allied capture of
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    • RAF bombing raids
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  • Bevan, Aneurin
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  • Beveridge, William
    • and coal rationing
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      ,
      2
    • and National Health Service
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    • and social insurance
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      2
    • loses seat at the election
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  • Beveridge Report
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  • Bevin, Ernest
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  • Bevin Boys
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  • Bingley, Nancy
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  • Birkenhead
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  • Birmingham
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  • Birmingham Small Arms (BSA)
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    • black Americans
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    • black market
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    • black propaganda
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    • blackout
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    • cover for romance
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    • penalty fine for not obeying rules
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    • restrictions lifted
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  • Blackwell v. Blackwell
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  • Blitz
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  • baby blitz
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  • Blitzkrieg
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  • blood donors
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  • Board of Trade
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  • Boer War
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  • Bore War
    see
    Phoney War
  • Bourneville Utilities
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  • Bradley, General Omar
    1
  • Brains Trust
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    2
  • bread
    • National Loaf
      1
    • rationing
      1
      ,
      2
  • Brest
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  • Bridges, Alice
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    • and air raids
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    • on the atomic bomb
      1
    • attends psychology discussion group
      1
    • background
      1
    • on bombing of German cities
      1
    • on Churchill
      1
    • on D-Day
      1
    • dressmaking business
      1
    • on education reforms
      1
    • and the end of the war
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      2
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      3
    • and evacuation
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • flirtations
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      ,
      4
    • and the general election
      1
      ,
      2
    • on the German people
      1
    • on the Holocaust
      1
    • ill health
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • on keeping up appearances
      1
    • marital troubles
      1
    • marriage, view of
      1
    • on means-tested public assistance
      1
    • on the Beveridge Report
      1
    • and the outbreak of war
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • post-war years
      1
    • on threatened German invasion
      1
    • war work
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    • widowed
      1
  • Bridges, Jacqueline
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  • Bridges, Les
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  • Brighton quickie
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  • Bristol
    1
  • British Expeditionary Force (BEF)
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    2
  • British Restaurants
    1
  • British Union of Fascists (BUF/BU)
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  • Buchenwald
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    2
  • bureaucracy
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  • Burma
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  • Burma Road
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  • Butler Act (Education Act)
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    2
  • by-elections (1943)
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  • calorie intake
    1
  • Canterbury
    1
  • Cardiff
    1
  • ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ propaganda
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  • Casablanca conference (1943)
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  • central heating, ban on
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  • Chamberlain, Joseph
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  • Chamberlain, Neville
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  • Channel Islands
    • evacuation of
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    • occupation of
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  • Chiang Kai-shek
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  • children, evacuation of
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  • Christmas Days
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    2
  • Churchill, Clementine
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  • Churchill, Winston
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    • on America’s entry into the war
      1
    • and the Basic English project
      1
      ,
      2
    • and the Beveridge Report
      1
      ,
      2
    • and D-Day
      1
    • and the Dunkirk evacuation
      1
    • on equal pay
      1
    • on fall of Singapore
      1
      ,
      2
    • on fall of Tobruk
      1
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      2
    • Four Years’ Plan
      1
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      2
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      3
    • on Gandhi
      1
    • and the general election
      1
    • Gestapo speech
      1
      ,
      2
    • ill health
      1
    • on the Italian campaign
      1
    • oratory
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    • out of office
      1
    • public discontent with
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  • cigarettes
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  • cinema
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  • Civil Defence and Anti-Aircraft duties
    1
  • civil defence injuries
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  • Clark, Lieutenant General Mark
    1
  • class issues
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  • coal
    • poor quality
      1
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      2
    • rationing
      1
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      2
    • shortages
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      2
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      3
    • coal-mining
  • Bevin Boys
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    • pay structures
      1
      ,
      2
    • strikes
      1
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      2
      ,
      3
    • wartime conditions
      1
  • coalition government
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    2
  • Cold War
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    2
  • Cologne, bombing of
    1
  • Common Wealth Party
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    ,
    2
  • Communal Feeding Centres
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  • communism
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    ,
    2
  • compensation for injuries
    1
  • concentration camps
    1
  • conscription
    1
  • Constantine, Learie
    1
  • cookery
    1
  • see also
    domestic management
  • Cooper, Gary
    1
  • cosmetics
    1
  • cost of living
    1
  • ‘Coventration’
    1
  • Coventry
    • destruction of
      1
    • IRA bomb
      1
  • Coward, Noël
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  • crime
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    • black marketeering
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    • careless talk, criminalization of
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    • defeatism, prosecutions for
      1
    • evacuation system abuses
      1
    • insanity defence
      1
    • looting
      1
    • sale of coupons and ration books
      1
    • waste, criminalisation of
      1
    • workplace theft
      1
  • Cripps, Mrs (housekeeper)
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    2
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  • Cripps, Sir Stafford
    • and Indian independence
      1
    • on the Beveridge Report
      1
  • Czechoslovakia
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    2
  • German invasion of
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