Index Adams, John 23–4 Attlee, Clement, 1st Earl Attlee 218–19 Adams, Samuel and Sarah, The Complete Attwood, Thomas 88 Servant 147–8 Augusta, Princess of Wales 57 Afghanistan 225–6 Austen, Jane, Mansfield Park 142–3 Africa 71, 75–6, 114, 116–17, 119, 180, Australia 109–11, 114–15, 201, 217, 220, 221–2, 227, 268, 281 264, 279 agriculture 37–8, 41, 128, 135 air power/bombing 197, 202, 205, 208, 228, Bagehot, Walter 103 243–5, 269 Baldwin, Stanley, 1st Earl Baldwin 202, Albert, Prince Consort 134–5 235–6 American Revolution 11, 21–4, 28, 85 Balfour, Arthur, 1st Earl Balfour 200 ancien regime Britain 53–4, 125 Balfour Declaration, The (1917) 200 Angell, Norman, The Great Illusion 120–1 Bamford, Samuel, Passages in the Life of a Anglicanism see Church of England Radical 87–9, 160–1 Anti-Corn Law League 135, 152 Bank of England 36 appeasement policy 202–6, 227 Bentham, Jeremy 163, 265 Ardilaun, Arthur Guinness, 1st Lord 186–7 A Manual of Political Economy 50–1 aristocracy see landed aristocracy Bertie, Sir Francis 121–2 Ashdown, Paddy, Diaries 224–5 Beveridge, Sir William 213 Ashley, Lord, AnthonyCOPYRIGHTED Ashley-Cooper, 7th Social InsuranceMATERIAL and Allied Services earl of Shaftesbury 133 245–7 Asia 116, 119, 167, 222, 268, 273 Binney, John, “Thieves and Swindlers” Asquith, Henry Herbert, 1st earl of 144–5 Oxford 107–8 Binyon, Laurence, “For the Fallen” 198 Atholl, John Murray, 3rd duke of 5–6 Blair, Tony (Anthony) 212–14, 225–7, 247, Atlantic Charter, The (1941) 217–18, 221 273, 276 Sources and Debates in Modern British History: 1714 to the Present, First Edition. 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Published 2012 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 297 Index Blake, William 66 Cecil, Lord Hugh 242, 246 “And Did Those Feet in Ancient Conservatism 240–1 Times” 77–8 Chamberlain, Joseph 121 “The Tiger” 67 “Want of Employment and the Boer War 116, 119 Development of Free Markets” Bogdanor, Vernon 215 116–17 Bolingbroke, Henry St John, Viscount, The Chamberlain, Neville 201–7, 227 Idea of the Patriot King 4–5, 7 Chartism 97–9, 101, 124, 160 Bonar Law, Andrew 234–5 Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, 4th earl of Boswell, James, Life of Samuel Johnson 32–4 59–61, 69, 73–5 child custody 161–2 Bristed, Charles Astor, Five Years in an child labor 130–4, 156, 157 English University 183–4 Church of England 63, 64, 69, 89–91, 104, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 139, 141–4, 173, 184, 232–3, 268 278 Churchill, Lord Randolph, “Elijah’s “British” history 80 Mantel” 105–6 British national identity 53, 76–8, 160, Churchill, Winston 105, 180, 197, 204–11, 183–4, 257, 264–80, 288 217–18, 234–5 Brixton Disorders, the (1981) 266–8 Civil Service Reform 106–7 Brooke, Sir Basil, 1st Viscount class (social) 29, 51, 91–4, 96, 100, 118, 127, Brookeborough 283–4 135, 143–7, 157, 169–71, 182, 199, Brooke, Rupert, “The Soldier” 271–2 231–8, 242–3, 255 Brown, Gordon 270–1, 276–8 see also landed aristocracy, middle classes, bureaucracy 250–2 working classes Burke, Edmund 4, 14–15, 17–18, 21, 25–6, “classical” economics 29, 42–50, 148–50, 93, 94, 104 153, 177–8 “A Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe” 79 coal mining 36, 127, 132, 133–4, 139 Reflections on the Revolution in France Cobbett, William, Cobbett’s Political 8–10, 15–17 Register 86 Burns, Robert, “Scots Wha Hae” 78–9 Cobden, Richard 152, 156 Bush, President George W. 225 Cold War 197, 208–11, 220–2, 244–5 business elite 30, 40, 44, 48, 235–8, 265 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 66 Bute, John Stuart, 3rd earl of 4, 11 colonies see Empire, British Byron, George Gordon, 6th Lord 66 Commons, house of 5–6, 7, 10, 14, 31–2, 88, 91–102, 103, 122, 144, 161, 202–4, Cabinet, the 7, 102, 143, 200, 218–19, 207, 214–15, 217–18, 224, 263 232–8, 258 Commonwealth, the (British) 198, 210, Cambridge, University of 63, 183, 236, 269 214, 220, 221–5, 264–5, 282–3 Cameron, David 235 conservatism 95, 104–5, 155, 169, 177, Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry 101–2 211–12, 240–1 Canada 23, 109–12, 115, 201, 217, 220, 235, see also Tory Party 264, 274, 279 Conservative Party Manifesto (1979) capitalism 43–7, 109, 117–19, 127, 129, 211–12 140, 151–2, 154, 177, 178, 231, Constitution, the British 3–15, 18, 240–2 90–103, 111, 214–17, 229, 231, 273–5, Casement, Sir Roger xxii, 281–2 279–80 Catholic Emancipation 90–1, 94, 185 Cook, Captain James 61 298 Index Cook, Robin, “Chicken Tikka Masala” education 62–5, 106, 109, 156, 163–4, speech 273–5 180–1, 183–6, 212, 266, 268, 270–1 Corn Laws 123, 129, 135, 150, 152 Edwards, Edward, “The Influence of Free Trade upon the Condition of the Darwin, Charles 48, 159, 174–5, 177, 181 Labouring Classes” 150 The Descent of Man 176–7 Egypt 116, 181, 220–1 On the Origin of Species 175 Eliot, George (Mary Anne Evans), Felix Holt: Davitt, Michael 188, 190 the Radical 138–9 “The Land League Proposal” 187–8 Elizabeth II, Queen 220, 224–5, 278 Defoe, Daniel Empire, the British 3, 20–6, 58, 61–2, 72, The Complete English Tradesman 30–1 74, 80, 81, 85, 105, 106, 109–20, 158, A Tour through the Whole Island of Great 167, 179–81, 197–8, 200–1, 207–8, Britain 18–19, 35–7 209–11, 217–22, 224–5, 229, 251, 255, De Valera, Eamon 282 257, 266, 287–8 devolution 257, 273–5, 279–80 “White Dominions” 109–12, 114–15, Diana, Princess of Wales 288 200–1, 217, 220 Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st earl of see also Australia, the Commonwealth, Beaconsfield 103, 105, 106, 165 imperialism, India, New Zealand, South “Crystal Palace” speech 104–5 Africa, Thirteen Colonies, West Indies Sybil or the Two Nations 96 Engels, Friedrich 131, 177 Dissent, Dissenters see Nonconformity, The Condition of the Working-Class in religion England in 1844 135–6 divorce 162 “A Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Dore, Gustav, “Wentworth Street, Work” 151–2 Whitechapel” 137 English national identity 53, 77–8, 183, dueling 31–2 185, 271–2, 276, 279 Durham, John George Lambton, 1st earl of, Enlightenment, the 16–17, 44, 47, 52, Report on the Affairs of British North 53, 55, 57, 58, 59, 61, 66, 69, 70, 73, America 109–11 175, 180 English Enlightenment 52, 53, 57–62, 70 East India Company 24–6, 42, 112–13 Scottish Enlightenment 43–4, 53, 54, 55, East India trade 20, 23 59 economic theory 20–1, 29, 42–51, 148–56 Equiano, Olaudah, The Interesting Narrative economy, the British 85, 156, 212 of the Life of 75–6 boom and bust/depression 129, 149, Escott, Thomas, England: Its People, Polity 154, 228, 231, 238–40 and Pursuits 96–7 commerce 19–21, 29, 30, 46–7, 114–15, Europe/EEC/EU 197, 214–16, 255, 273–5, 116–17, 118, 122–3 279–80 consumer revolution 29, 51 Evangelical movement 53, 64 decline 197, 254 finance 30, 35, 154, 157 Fabian Society 166, 276 growth 29–30, 118, 127, 128, 156–7, 254 Manifesto 108–9 tariffs 111, 116, 134–5, 155 Factory Act (1895) 166 see also agriculture, Corn Laws, factory system 29, 127, 129–30, 131–2, 134, industrialization, textile industry, 140, 155, 157 unemployment family 34–5, 41–3, 48–9, 52, 107, 109, Eden, Anthony, 1st earl of Avon 221, 235 161–2, 183, 211–12, 259–61 299 Index feminism 69–71, 161–2, 163–5, 166–9, Hardie, Keir 213 259–61 Harrow School 180–1, 236, 237 see also women Hastings, Francis, 10th earl of Huntingdon, food/diet 37–8, 43, 130, 134, 138, 146–7 Lord 31–2 Foot, Michael 223 Hazlitt, William 277 Fox, Charles James 10–11, 21, 32 “What Is the People?” 87 free trade 44, 46–7, 90, 103, 114–15, 123, Heath, Sir Edward (Ted) 264, 284–6 134–5, 150, 152, 153, 155, 158 Hobhouse, L.T., Liberalism 155–6, 177 French Revolution 8–10, 15–18, 26, 35, 53, Hobson, J.A., Imperialism 117–20 67, 70, 85, 88 Hogarth, William 12 Froude, J.A., Oceana or England and Her Holwell, J.Z., “Narrative” 24–5 Colonies 114–15, 121 Home, Alec Douglas-Home, 14th earl of 222–4, 235 Gaskell, Peter, The Manufacturing Home Rule 116, 161, 188–91, 192, 193, 236 Population of England 131–2 homosexuality xxii, xxv, 257, 263–4 General Strike, the (1926) 239 Human Rights Act (1998) 215–16 “gentlemanly capitalism” 157 Hume, David 53, 59, 66 gentry see landed aristocracy An Enquiry Concerning Human George III, King 4, 7–8, 11, 13–14, 21, Understanding 54–5 23–4, 28, 60–1 An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of George IV, King 32, 60, 91 Morals 55–6 George V, King 283 Huxley, Thomas H., “Evolution and George VI, King 220, 231 Ethics” 181–2 Gibbon, Edward 24 Hyde, Douglas 190 The Decline and Fall of the Roman “The Necessity for De-Anglicising Empire 58–9 Ireland” 189–90 Memoirs 62–3 Giffen, Robert, “The Liquidations of immigration 257, 264–70, 273–5, 287–8 1873–1876” 154 imperialism 85, 109–20, 123, 159, 177, 179, Gladstone, Herbert 169 220–1, 224–5 Gladstone, William 99–101, 106–7, 108, India 24–6, 110, 112–13, 115, 116, 119, 124, 165, 187–8, 188–9, 235, 236, 282 158, 181, 201, 217–19, 251, 257, 264, Glorious Revolution 3, 14–15, 216 267, 273–4 Godwin, William 47 industrialization 19, 29, 39–40, 44, 51, 52, Governance of Britain, The (2007) 270–1, 67, 80, 97, 118, 127, 128–41, 155, 156–8, 279–80 191 Government of India Act (1935) 218 Iraq 197, 225, 273 Grattan, Henry 277 Ireland 20, 26, 37–8, 52, 53, 79, 85, 116, Graves, Robert, Goodbye to All That 199 161, 185–6, 190–1, 193, 217, 232, 257, Grenville, George 7–8 275, 276, 284–7 Grey, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl 40, 88, 91, 96 Ascendancy, the 37–8, 79, 188, 189, 190, Grey, Sir Edward 121–3 283 Guest, Richard, A Compendious History of the Famine, the Great 159, 186, 192 Cotton-Manufacture 39–40 Free State 282–3 Gaelic language and culture 189–90 Haig, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl 227 Land War 186–8 Halifax, Edward Wood, 1st earl of 204, 238 Parliament 79, 185, 188, 190–1, 192, 282 300 Index