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The Impossible Office? Anthony Seldon , Assisted by Jonathan Meakin , Illias Thoms Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-316-51532-7 — The Impossible Office? Anthony Seldon , Assisted by Jonathan Meakin , Illias Thoms Index More Information Index 10 Downing Street, 6, 17, 45, 112, 127, 149, Alfred the Great, 26 166, 173, 189–90, 330–1, 338 Aliens Act (1905), 51 ‘Garden Suburb’, 118 Allen, Douglas, 300 14 Downing Street, 255 Althorp, John Charles Spencer, Lord 1922 Committee, 194 Althorp, 108, 285 1958 US–UK Defence Agreement, 35 American Civil War (1861–5), 107, 209, 263 2011 UK Census, 50 American colonies, 71, 72, 74, 75 7/7 terrorist attack, 44 American War of Independence (1775–83), 70 Whitehall, 166, 190 40, 76, 83, 210, 212, 227, 230, 251, 9/11 terrorist attack, 44, 211 254, 256 Amherst, Jeffrey, 253 Abdication crisis (1936), 121, 203, 240 Amiens, Treaty of (1802), 90, 96 Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, Lord Anderson, John, 295 Aberdeen, 30, 102, 104, 105, 106, 110, Andreotti, Giulio, 140 113, 173, 181, 212, 234, 262, 287, Andrew, Duke of York, 17 316, 319 Anglican Church. See Church of England Act of Settlement (1701), 12, 223, 251 Anglo French Naval Convention (1911), Act of Union (1707), 10, 12, 26, 38, 66, 265 156, 223 Anglo–Japanese Alliance (1902), 264 Act of Union (1800), 39, 89 Anne, Queen, 12, 14, 22, 64, 65, 93, 223, 251 Adams, John, 168, 227 Archbishop of Canterbury, 25 Adams, W. G. S., 118 Argyll, John Campbell, Duke of Argyll, Addington, Henry, 49, 90, 96, 268, 318, 337 23, 82 Adelaide, Queen, 231, 232 aristocracy, 48 Adenauer, Konrad, 140 Armstrong, William, 143, 144, 171, Admiralty, 26, 117, 155, 250, 251 300, 306 Aethelstan, King, 58 Ashcroft, Michael, Lord, 195 Afghanistan, 101 Ashdown, Paddy, 160 Afghanistan War (2001–14), 279 Asquith, Helen, 176 Africa, 40, 41 Asquith, Herbert Henry (H.H.), 34, 39, 42, Agadir Crisis (1911), 265, 292 54, 95, 97, 116, 151, 157, 163, 170, 178, agricultural revolution, 46 185, 187, 191, 212, 236, 237, 238, 265, Air Ministry, 118, 155 266, 268, 269, 291, 292, 309, 316, 317, Aislabie, John, 5 320, 324 Albert, Prince Consort, 105, 233, 234, 236, Asquith, Margot, 176 262, 266 Asquith, Raymond, 117, 336 Alexander, Henry, Lord Alexander, 157 Asquith, Violet, 176 405 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-316-51532-7 — The Impossible Office? Anthony Seldon , Assisted by Jonathan Meakin , Illias Thoms Index More Information INDEX Astor, Nancy, 52 Birt, John, 308 Atterbury Plot (1722), 15, 24, 43 Bishop, Freddie, 129 Atterbury, Francis (Bishop of Bishops’ War (1639–40), 26 Rochester), 15 Bismarck, Otto von, 32, 264 Attlee, Clement, 41, 47, 48, 56, 95, 102, 103, Black Wednesday (1992), 304 111, 114, 121, 123–6, 130, 134, 147, Blair, Cherie, 173, 177 157, 160, 162, 166, 167, 170, 171, 193, Blair, Tony, 37, 38, 39, 48, 49, 53, 54, 57, 95, 198, 199, 212, 242, 272, 297, 299, 313, 114, 120, 125, 129, 133, 136, 148, 149, 314, 315, 323, 329, 334, 336 155, 156, 158, 159, 161, 166, 167, 168, Attlee, Violet, 177 182, 184, 186, 188, 189, 190, 191, 193, Austerlitz, Battle of, 90 196, 197, 199, 200, 202, 203, 210, 213, Australia, 40, 89 214, 216, 217, 274, 275, 276, 279, Australia (prime minister), 141 280, 305, 306–8, 311, 315, 316, 325, Austrian State Treaty (1954), 272 330, 336 Bligh, Tim, 129 Bagehot, Walter, 142, 147, 243 Board of Trade, 44 Baldwin, Lucy, 177 Boer War (1899–1902), 34, 257, 260, 264 Baldwin, Stanley, 34, 36, 37, 43, 55, 95, 100, Bonaparte, Napoleon, 89 102, 121, 124, 128, 134, 156, 157, 161, Bonar Law, Andrew, 33, 36, 49, 95, 120, 121, 177, 181, 201, 203, 204, 239, 240, 241, 134, 158, 171, 196, 210, 211, 214, 215, 268, 294, 295, 316, 325 239, 268, 295, 319, 336 Balfour, Arthur, 33, 35, 36, 39, 45, 94, 102, Bondfield, Margaret, 52 116, 147, 156, 157, 159, 163, 173, 176, Boothby, Bob, 336 178, 193, 215, 236, 238, 239, 268, 270, Botham, Ian, 149 290, 307, 317, 323, 337 Bowler, James, 312 Balls, Ed, 307, 308 Bracken, Brendan, 202 Balmoral Castle, 17 Bracken, Lord, 56 Balogh, Thomas, 129, 299 Brereton, Thomas, 22 Bank of England, 18, 253, 283, 285, 293, Bretton Woods economic system, 297 297, 306 Brexit, 7, 10, 41, 47, 135, 164, 182, 191, 192, Bank of England Act (1694), 223 193, 194, 197, 202, 204, 306, 310 Barber, Tony, 300 Bridges, Edward, 124, 143, 295 Baring, Evelyn, 260 Brighton bomb (1984), 44 Bath, William Pulteney, Lord Bath, 224 Bristol, 46 BBC, 19, 55 British Empire, 33, 40–1, 127, 211, 259–60, Beach, Michael Hicks, 290 263, 264, 269 Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Lord British Movitone News, 55 Beaverbrook, 56, 118, 201, 202, 242 British Museum, 70 Becket, Thomas, 60 British Nationality Act (1948), 51 Beckett, Margaret, 305 Brook, Norman, 123, 124, 143 Bedchamber Crisis (1839), 98, 233 Brougham, Henry, Lord Brougham, 99 Berlin, Congress of (1878), 94, 109 Brown, George, 171, 273, 277 Berlusconi, Silvio, 140 Brown, Gordon, 8, 57, 96, 134, 158, 159, Bevan, Aneurin, 125, 242 160, 161, 163, 168, 182, 188, 193, 196, Beveridge, William, 124 200, 210, 211, 216, 217, 274, 276, 277, Bevin, Ernest, 124, 125, 126, 157, 170, 280, 294, 305, 306–9, 311, 312, 317, 242, 272 325, 331, 336, 336 Biarritz, 237 Brown, Jennifer, 336 Big Bang (1986), 302 Brown, Sarah, 173, 177, 336 Bill of Rights (1689), 11, 64, 222 Bruges speech (1988), 279 Birch, Nigel, 299 Brussels Treaty (1948), 272 Birmingham, 46 Buckingham Palace, 226 406 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-316-51532-7 — The Impossible Office? Anthony Seldon , Assisted by Jonathan Meakin , Illias Thoms Index More Information INDEX Budgets, 283, 286 278, 279, 305, 309, 317, 325, 336, 1841, 98 336, 338 1842, 99, 287 Cameron, Florence, 338 1853, 287 Cameron, Ivan, 336 1854, 287 Cameron, Samantha, 173, 178, 336 1860, 288, 291 Campbell, Alastair, 57, 149, 184 1909, 36, 117, 185, 291, 298 Campbell-Bannerman, Henry, 49, 116, 167, 1941, 297 214, 236, 248, 317 1981, 302 Camrose, Lord, 56 Bulgarian Horrors, 112 Camrose, William Berry, Viscount Camrose, Buller, Reginald Manningham, 191 202 Burke, Edmund, 87, 91, 227 Canada, 89, 101 Burma, 125 Canada (prime minister), 141 Burnham, Andy, 199 Canning, George, 29, 49, 90, 93, 97, 103, Burns, John, 265 105, 210, 211, 215, 259, 260, 261, Bush, George H.W., 132, 275, 279 314, 319 Bush, George W., 129, 248, 276, 279 Cardwell, Edward, Lord Cardwell, 110 Bute, John Stuart, Earl of Bute, 72, 80, 86, Carlton Club, 120, 175, 194 210, 216, 226, 319 Carmarthen, Francis Osborne, Marquess of Butler, George, 171 Carmarthen, 255 Butler, Rab, 171, 210, 244, 274, 299, Carmarthen, Thomas Osborne, Marquess 311, 312 of Carmarthen, 65 Butler, Robin, Lord Butler, 186, 188, 275 Carney, Mark, 309 Caroline, Queen (1683–1737), 15, 16 Cabinet, 13–14, 45, 77, 81–3, 133, 144, Caroline, Queen (of George IV), 150–4, 164, 169, 174, 186–9, 229, 230, 231 291, 307 Carrington, Peter Carington, Lord Cabinet responsibility, 45, 100 Carrington, 278, 280, 301 ‘inner Cabinet’, 150 cars, 35–6 resignations and dismissals, 188 Carteret, John, Lord Carteret, 15, 69, 86, use of Cabinet Committees, 150–4 224, 253 Cabinet Council (pre-modern), 64, 65, 68, Case, Simon, 149 81, 223 Castle, Barbara, 171, 332 Cabinet Manual, The, 46, 142, 145, 146, 168, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Lord 169, 244 Castlereagh, 89, 91, 93, 256, 259, Cabinet Office, 8, 122, 165–6, 190, 275, 281, 260–1, 272, 274 297, 306 Catherine the Great (of Russia), 16 Cabinet Secretariat, 23, 45, 118, 143, Catholic emancipation, 90, 97, 98, 151, 203, 165 226, 228, 231 Cabinet Secretary, 146 Catholic Emancipation Act (1829), 50 Cadogan, Alexander, 272 Cato conspiracy (1820), 43 Cain, Lee, 8, 190 Cecil, Algernon, 258 Calendar Act (1750), 70 Cecil, Robert, Earl of Salisbury, 62 Callaghan, Audrey, 177 Cecil, William, Lord Burghley, 62 Callaghan, James, 43, 95, 122, 126, 130, 147, Centre for Policy Studies, 130 161, 162, 163, 182, 195, 199, 214, 268, Chamberlain, Anne, 177 273, 300, 301, 302, 311, 317, 331 Chamberlain, Austen, 271, 294 Cambridge University, 28, 49, 50, 111 Chamberlain, Joseph, 264, 267, 323 Cameron, David, 5, 37, 40, 48, 57, 96, 102, Chamberlain, Neville, 34, 36, 56, 95, 121, 134, 148, 156, 159, 160, 161, 163, 164, 129, 177, 187, 198, 212, 214, 215, 216, 167, 168, 182, 183, 184, 189, 191, 194, 241, 268, 271, 275, 294, 300, 318, 337 197, 200, 209, 214, 216, 217, 228, 274, Chanak Crisis (1922), 120 407 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-316-51532-7 — The Impossible Office? Anthony Seldon , Assisted by Jonathan Meakin , Illias Thoms Index More Information INDEX Chancellor (pre-modern position), 60 Clegg, Nick, 157, 171 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 25 Clémenceau, Georges, 120, 270 Chancellor of the Exchequer (position), Cnut, King, 58 18, 25, 68, 80, 88, 100, 144, 189, Coercive Acts (1774), 76 209–10, 269, 281–312, 329, 331–332 Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 282 Chancellor of the University of Cold War (1945–89), 41, 123, 124, Cambridge, 25 132 Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 25 Colonial Office, 258 Chaplin, Judith, 304 Colville, Jock, 123, 277 Charles I, 12, 26, 62, 221 Committee of Secrecy (1742), 20 Charles II, 63, 64, 221, 282 Commonwealth of Nations, 248 Charles XII (Sweden), 252 Compton, Spencer, 15, 68, 84, 86, 173, 213, Charles, Prince of Wales, 17 215, 224, 314, 319 Chartist demonstration (1848), 43 Conciliatory Resolution (1775), 76 Chartists, 43, 104, 174 Confederate Rebellion (Ireland) Chatham, Lord.
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