History of England 1-6

Unionist Alliance, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Unionists: name, ref1, ref2; Irish Home Rule Bill, ref1, ref2; leadership, ref1; support for declaration of war, ref1; wartime coalition, ref1, ref2; waning support for war (1917), ref1; blaming women for unemployment, ref1; peacetime coalition, ref1, ref2; election (1918), ref1, ref2; Versailles Treaty, ref1; austerity programme, ref1; Irish nationalism concern, ref1; response to Anglo-Irish treaty, ref1

United States: coal and iron production, ref1; arms race, ref1; UK alliance, ref1, ref2; declares war on Germany, ref1; Wilson’s peace settlement plan, ref1, ref2; isolation, ref1; technological revolution, ref1; Wall Street crash (1929), ref1; naval treaty (1922), ref1; Pearl Harbor, ref1; war with Germany, ref1; withdrawal of Lend-Lease, ref1; Suez crisis, ref1; special relationship, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; support for Britain’s EEC membership, ref1; funds for IRA, ref1

University Challenge (TV quiz), ref1

Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, ref1

Ure, Midge, ref1

V1s and V2s, ref1

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, ref1, ref2

Versailles: peace conference, ref1, ref2; Treaty (1919), ref1, ref2, ref3

Victoria, Queen, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Vietnam War, ref1, ref2

villages, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

wages: agricultural labourers, ref1; working classes, ref1; strikes, ref1, ref2; rise (WWI), ref1, ref2; miners (1925), ref1, ref2; public-sector cuts (1931), ref1; purchasing power, ref1; post-war, ref1; miners (1972), ref1; Seventies, ref1

Waigel, Theodor, ref1, ref2

Wain, John: Hurry On Down, ref1

Wakeham, John, ref1

Wales: evacuees, ref1; devolution, ref1, ref2

Wall Street crash (1929), ref1

Walters, Sir Alan, ref1

Ward, Stephen, ref1

Waterhouse, Keith, ref1

Waters, Susan, ref1

Watkinson, Harold, ref1

Watson, James, ref1

Waugh, Alec, ref1

Waugh, Evelyn: Vile Bodies, ref1, ref2, ref3; on left-wing youth, ref1

Waymouth, Nigel, ref1

Webb, Beatrice, ref1, ref2

Webb, Sidney, ref1, ref2

welfare state: foundations, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; cost, ref1; approach to education, ref1; expansion, ref1, ref2; Heath’s policy, ref1

Weller, Irene, ref1

Wells, H. G.: on Queen Victoria, ref1; Mr Britling Sees it Through, ref1; influence, ref1

Wembley Stadium, ref1

West, Fred and Rosemary, ref1

West, Rebecca, ref1

Western Front: casualties, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; BEF, ref1; trench warfare, ref1, ref2, ref3; arrival of US troops, ref1; post-war effects of experiences, ref1

Wham!, ref1

White, T. H.: The Once and Future King, ref1

White Wolves, ref1

Whitehouse, Mary, ref1

Whitelaw, William ‘Willie’: on miners’ strike, ref1; character, ref1; Sunningdale Agreement, ref1; dealing with second miners’ strike, ref1; European policy, ref1; advice to Heath, ref1; party leadership candidacy, ref1; illness, ref1

Who, the, ref1, ref2

Wilberforce report (1972), ref1

Wilde, Oscar: The Importance of Being Earnest, ref1; imprisonment, ref1, ref2

Wilhelm II, Kaiser, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Wilkinson, ‘Red’ Ellen, ref1

William of Wykeham, ref1

Williams, Alan, ref1

Williams, Marcia, ref1

Williams, Percy, ref1

Willoughby de Broke, Lord, ref1

Wills, John, ref1

Wilson, Edmund, ref1

Wilson, Harold: on Common Market entry, ref1; election victory (1964), ref1; prime minister, ref1; character, ref1, ref2; MBEs for Beatles, ref1, ref2; reforming achievements, ref1, ref2; re-election (1966); response to seamen’s strike, ref1; six-month price and pay freeze, ref1; ‘July plot’ against, ref1; devaluation of the pound (1967), ref1; reputation, ref1; US relations, ref1, ref2; industrial-relations policy, ref1; election defeat (1970), ref1; election victory (1974), ref1, ref2; EEC referendum (1975), ref1; mental decline, ref1; resignation, ref1, ref2; Callaghan’s tribute, ref1

Wilson, Mary, ref1

Wilson, Woodrow, ref1, ref2

Windrush generation, ref1, ref2, ref3

Windsor Castle, fire, ref1

Winstanley, Gerrard, ref1

Wolfenden report (1957), ref1, ref2

Woman and Woman’s Own, ref1

women: demands for vote, ref1; local government participation, ref1; suffragettes, ref1; wartime employment, ref1, ref2; clothes, ref1, ref2, ref3; vote for women over thirty, ref1, ref2; post-war dismissal from employment, ref1, ref2; ‘marriage bar’ in employment, ref1, ref2; flappers, ref1; fashions, ref1, ref2; vote for all women over twenty-one, ref1; first female cabinet minister, ref1; housewives, ref1; reading, ref1; ‘Great Saucepan Offensive’, ref1; employment opportunities, ref1; Greenham Common camp, ref1; MCC membership, ref1

Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, ref1

Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), ref1

Wood, Ursula, ref1

Woolf, Virginia: Bloomsbury Group, ref1; Mrs Dalloway, ref1

Woolton, Lord, ref1

working hours, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Workmen’s Compensation Act (1906), ref1

World Cup (1966), ref1, ref2

World Disarmament Conference, ref1

World War, First: outbreak, ref1, ref2; Armistice, ref1; Versailles peace conference, ref1; causes of, ref1

World War, Second: declared, ref1; Dunkirk, ref1; Normandy landings, ref1, ref2; VE day, ref1, ref2

Wyndham Land (Purchase) Act (1903), ref1

Yardbirds, ref1, ref2