Fifty Key Figures in Twentieth Century British Politics
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Fifty Key Figures in Twentieth Century British Politics

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Fifty Key Figures in Twentieth Century British Politics

About this book

This guidebook provides a complete overview of the lives and influence of fifty major figures in modern British political history. Reflecting the changes within British society and politics over the past century, the entries chart the development of key contemporary issues such as women's rights, immigration and the emergence of New Labour. Figures covered include: * Winston Churchill * Tony Blair * Emmeline Pankhurst * David Lloyd George * Margaret Thatcher * John Maynard Keynes * Enoch Powell * Barbara Castle With cross-referenced entries and helpful suggestions for further reading, this book is an essential guide for all those with an interest in understanding the dominating issues of modern British politics.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2002
eBook ISBN
9781134588732
Topic
Storia
Subtopic
Storia britannica

Index

A National Health Service 36
Abyssinia/n 79, 132, 157
Adams, Gerry 49
Amalgamated Union of Cooperative Employees 220
American Loan (1947) 97
Amory, Derrick Heathcoat 177
Amulree Committee (Committee on Holidays with Pay) 40
Angell, Norman 65
Anglo-German Naval Treaty 132
Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985) 217; Treaty (1921) 160
Anomalies Act/Bill (1931) 28, 188
Anschluss 79
appeasement 75, 78-80, 100, 201
Arab-Israeli War (1967) 56
Asquith, Herbert Henry 3-9, 24, 60-1, 63, 82, 111-12, 128, 155, 160-1, 164-5, 167, 205-7, 210-11
Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne 9-10
Astor, Waldorf 9
Attlee, Richard Clement 10-16, 28-30, 36, 38-9, 41, 54, 61, 84-5, 87-8, 91, 97, 100, 107, 155, 168, 183, 220

Baker, Kenneth 139, 179
Baldwin, Stanley 8, 16—21, 26—7, 77-8, 83, 131-2, 172, 187, 189, 211, 213
Balfour, A. J. 4, 21-5, 74, 179; ‘Balfour Declaration’ 24—5, 207; Education Act (1902) 4; Valentine Compact (1906) 74
Barnett, Canon 31
Barnett, Correlli 37-8; ‘Battle of Cable Street’ 189
Beaverbrook, Lord (William Maxwell Aitken) 25-8, 77, 189
Beloff, Max 37
Benn, Tony 105, 150
Benson, T. D. 119
Betts, Frank 64-5
Bevan, Aneurin (Nye) 13-15, 28-30, 65-6, 90, 103-4, 108, 184, 188, 202, 224; and In Place of Fear (1952) 29
Bevanites 15, 28, 64, 66, 104, 108
Beveridge Report (Social Insurance and Allied Services) 13-14, 30, 34-6, 37-8
Beveridge, William Henry 30—8; Full Employment in a Free Society 37; and Unemployme...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTENTS
  5. PREFACE
  6. Herbert Henry Asquith
  7. Nancy Astor
  8. Clement Attlee
  9. Stanley Baldwin
  10. Arthur James Balfour
  11. Lord Beaverbrook
  12. Aneurin Bevan
  13. William Beveridge
  14. Ernest Bevin
  15. Tony Blair
  16. Richard Austen Butler
  17. James Callaghan
  18. Henry Campbell-Bannerman
  19. Edward Carson
  20. Barbara Castle
  21. Joseph Chamberlain
  22. Neville Chamberlain
  23. Sir Winston Churchill
  24. Walter Citrine
  25. Sir Stafford Cripps
  26. Anthony Crosland
  27. Hugh Dalton
  28. Sir Anthony Eden
  29. Michael Foot
  30. Hugh Gaitskell
  31. Edward Grey
  32. Keir Hardie
  33. Edward Heath
  34. Arthur Henderson
  35. Sir Samuel Hoare
  36. Sir Alec Douglas Home
  37. Sir Keith Joseph
  38. John Maynard Keynes
  39. Neil Kinnock
  40. George Lansbury
  41. Andrew Bonar Law
  42. David Lloyd George
  43. James Ramsay MacDonald
  44. Harold Macmillan
  45. John Major
  46. Herbert Morrison
  47. Oswald Mosley
  48. Emmeline Pankhurst
  49. Harry Pollitt
  50. Enoch Powell
  51. Sir Herbert Samuel
  52. Sir John Simon
  53. Margaret Thatcher
  54. Ellen Wilkinson
  55. Harold Wilson
  56. INDEX