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| Genre/Form: | Wörterbuch (Fachlexikon) Encyclopedias Encyclopedies Encyclopédies |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Twentieth-century Britain. New York : Peter Lang, c2002 (OCoLC)679873372 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
F M Leventhal |
| ISBN: | 0820451088 9780820451084 |
| OCLC Number: | 48053846 |
| Description: | xxix, 640 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Abortion 1 -- Actors and Acting 2 -- Adult Education 3 -- Ageing 5 -- Allen, (Reginald) Clifford (1889-1939) 6 -- Angell [Lane], [Ralph] Norman (1872-1967) 7 -- Anglicanism: see Church of England 8 -- Anglo-American Relations 8 -- Anti-Semitism 10 -- Appeasement 11 -- Architecture 14 -- Army 18 -- Arts Council of Great Britain 20 -- Ashton, Frederick (1904-1988) 21 -- Asquith, H(erbert) H(enry) (1852-1928) 23 -- Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne (1879-1964) 24 -- Atomic Weapons: see Nuclear Weapons 25 -- Attlee, Clement Richard (1883-1967) 25 -- Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh) (1907-1973) 27 -- Automobile Industry 29 -- Aviation 31 -- Ayckbourn, Alan (1939-) 32 -- Ayer, A(lfred) J(ules) (1910-1989) 33 -- Bacon, Francis (1909-1992) 34 -- Baden-Powell, Robert (1857-1941) 35 -- Baldwin, Stanley (1867-1947) 35 -- Balfour, Arthur James (1948-1930) 37 -- Ballet 38 -- Battle of Britain and Blitz 41 -- Baylis, Lilian Mary (1874-1937) 42 -- The Beatles 43 -- Beaverbrook, Lord [William Maxwell Aitken] (1879-1964) 44 -- Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989) 45 -- Beecham, Thomas (1879-1961) 46 -- Bell, Vanessa Stephen (1879-1961) 46 -- Benn, Anthony Neil Wedgwood [Tony Benn] (1925-) 47 -- Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold (1867-1931) 48 -- Bevan, Aneurin (1897-1960) 49 -- Beveridge, William Henry (1879-1963) 51 -- Bevin, Ernest (1881-1951) 52 -- Birth Control 54 -- Black People in Britain 56 -- Blair, Anthony Charles Linton (1953-) 59 -- Blatchford, Robert Peel Glanville (1851-1943) 61 -- Bloomsbury Group 61 -- Boer [South African] War (1899-1902) 63 -- Bonar Law, Andrew (1858-1923) 65 -- Bowen, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole (1899-1973) 66 -- Brailsford, H(enry) N(oel) (1873-1958) 67 -- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 69 -- BBC Overseas Broadcasting 71 -- British Council 72 -- Brittain, Vera Mary (1893-1970) 73 -- Britten, (Edward) Benjamin (1913-1976) 74 -- Brooke, Rupert Chawner (1887-1915) 75 -- Butler, R(ichard) A(usten) (1902-1982) 76 -- Cabinet 78 -- Callaghan, (Leonard) James (1912-) 80 -- Cambridge, University of 81 -- Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament 82 -- Campbell-Bannerman, Henry (1836-1908) 83 -- Capital Punishment 84 -- Carson, Edward Henry (1854-1935) 85 -- Catholicism: see Roman Catholicism 86 -- Chamberlain, (Joseph) Austen (1863-1937) 86 -- Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville (1868-1940) 87 -- Chemistry 88 -- Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith) (1874-1936) 90 -- Children's Literature 90 -- Christie, Agatha Miller (1890-1976) 92 -- Church of England 93 -- Churchill, Winston Spencer (1874-1965) 95 -- Citrine, Walter McLennan (1887-1983) 98 -- City of London 98 -- Civil Service 100 -- Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie (1903-1983) 102 -- Clearing Banks 103 -- Cliveden Set 105 -- Clothing and Fashion 106 -- Coal Mining 108 -- Codebreaking 110 -- Cole, G(eorge) D(ouglas) H(oward) (1889-1959) 111 -- Committee of Imperial Defence (1902-1939) 112 -- Commonwealth 113 -- Commonwealth Literature 116 -- Communist Party of Great Britain 118 -- Composers and Music 120 -- Compton-Burnett, Ivy (1884-1969) 123 -- Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) 124 -- Conscientious Objection 125 -- Conscription 127 -- Conservative Party 129 -- Cooperative Movement 133 -- Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) 134 -- Council Housing 135 -- Country Houses 137 -- Coward, Noel Pierce (1899-1973) 138 -- Crick, Francis (1916-) 139 -- Cricket 139 -- Crime 141 -- Cripps, (Richard) Stafford (1889-1952) 142 -- Crosland, (Charles) Anthony Raven (1918-1977) 144 -- Curzon, George Nathaniel (1859-1925) 144 -- Dalton, (Edward) Hugh John Neale (1887-1962) 146 -- Dawson, Geoffrey (1874-1944) 147 -- Day Lewis, Cecil (1904-1972) 148 -- Decolonization 149 -- Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) 151 -- Delius, Frederick Theodore Albert (1862-1934) 152 -- Design 153 -- Detective Fiction 155 -- de Valois, Ninette (1898-2001) 156 -- Devolution, Scottish and Welsh 157 -- Diet and Nutrition 159 -- Divorce and Divorce Law Reform 160 -- Documentary Film 162 -- Dole, The 164 -- Drama 165 -- Dunkirk (26 May-4 June 1940) 167 -- Economic Performance 168 -- Eden, (Robert) Anthony (1897-1977) 170 -- Education Act of 1944 171 -- Edward VII (1841-1910) 172 -- Edward VIII (1894-1972) 173 -- El Alamein, Battle of 175 -- Electoral System 175 -- Elgar, Edward William (1857-1934) 177 -- Eliot, T(homas) S(tearns) (1888-1965) 178 -- Elizabeth II (1926-) 180 -- Emigration 183 -- Epstein, Jacob (1880-1959) 185 -- Equal Pay Movement 186 -- European Community: see European Union 187 -- European Union [formerly European Community] 187 -- Fabian Society 190 -- Falklands War 191 -- Family Allowances 192 -- Fascism 193 -- Fashion: see Clothing and Fashion 194 -- Fawcett, Millicent Garrett (1847-1929) 194 -- Feminism 195 -- Festival of Britain, 1951 197 -- Film Industry 199 -- First World War: Homefront (1914-1918) 201 -- First World War: Military (1914-1918) 203 -- Fleming, Alexander (1881-1955) 206 -- Fonteyn, Margot (1919-1991) 206 -- Foot, Michael Mackintosh (1913-) 207 -- Football 207 -- Ford, Ford Madox (1873-1939) 209 -- Forster, E(dward) M(organ) (1879-1970) 209 -- Freud, Lucian (1922-) 212 -- Friends, Society of [Quakers] 212 -- Fry, Roger Eliot (1866-1934) 214 -- Gaitskell, Hugh Todd Naylor (1906-1963) 216 -- Gallipoli 217 -- Galsworthy, John (1867-1933) 218 -- Garden Cities 219 -- Gardiner, A(lfred) G(eorge) (1865-1946) 220 -- Garvin, J(ames) L(ouis) (1868-1947) 221 -- General Strike (4-12 May 1926) 222 -- George V (1865-1936) 223 -- George VI (1895-1952) 225 -- Gill, (Arthur) Eric Rowton (1882-1940) 225 -- Gold Standard 227 -- Golding, William (1911-1993) 228 -- Gollancz, Victor (1893-1967) 228 -- Government of India Act (1935) 230 -- Grant, Duncan James Corrowr (1885-1978) 231 -- Graves, Robert von Ranke (1895-1985) 231 -- Greene, (Henry) Graham (1904-1991) 232 -- Grey, Edward (1862-1933) 234 -- Guild Socialism 235 -- Haig, Douglas (1861-1928) 237 -- Haldane, J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson) (1892-1964) 238 -- Haldane, R(ichard) B(urdon) (1856-1928) 239 -- Halifax, Earl of [Edward Frederick Lindley Wood] (1881-1959) 240 -- Hammond, J(ohn) L(awrence) (Le Breton) (1872-1949) and (Lucy) Barbara (1873-1961) 241 -- Hardie, (James) Keir (1856-1915) 242 -- Health of the Population 243 -- Heath, Edward Richard George (1916-) 246 -- Henderson, Arthur (1863-1935) 247 -- Hepworth, Barbara (1903-1975) 249 -- Historic Preservation 250 -- Hitchcock, Alfred (1899-1980) 251 -- Hoare, Samuel John Gurney (1880-1959) 252 -- Hobson, J(ohn) A(tkinson) (1858-1940) 253 -- Hockney, David (1937-) 255 -- Holst, Gustavus Theodore von (1874-1934) 256 -- Home, Alec [Alexander Frederick] Douglas- (1903-95) 256 -- Home Guard 258 -- Homosexuality 258 -- Horse Racing 260 -- Hospitals 260 -- Hotels 262 -- Hours of Work 263 -- House of Lords 264 -- Housing 265 -- Huxley, Aldous Leonard (1894-1963) 268 -- Huxley, Julian Sorell (1887-1975) 269 -- Immigration 270 -- Imperial Preference 272 -- Independent Labour Party 273 -- India, Partition of 275 -- Indian Nationalism 276 -- International Brigade 278 -- Internment of Enemy Aliens 279 -- Irish Land Purchase Act (1903) 280 -- Irish Literature 281 -- Irish Nationalism 282 -- Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw (1904-1986) 284 -- Jarrow 286 -- Jenkins, Roy Harris (1920-) 286 -- Jennings, Humphrey (1907-1950) 287 -- Jews 288 -- John, Augustus Edwin (1878-1961) 290 -- Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius (1882-1941) 291 -- Judicial System 292 -- Juvenile Delinquency 293 -- Keynes, John Maynard (1883-1946) 295 -- Kinnock, Neil Gordon (1942-) 298 -- Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936) 298 -- Kitchener, Horatio Herbert (1850-1916) 299 -- Labour Party 301 -- Labour Representation Committee (1900-1906) 305 -- Labour Revisionism 306 -- Lang, Cosmo Gordon (1864-1945) 307 -- Lansbury, George (1859-1940) 307 -- Larkin, Philip Arthur (1922-1985) 308 -- Laski, Harold Joseph (1893-1950) 309 -- Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert) (1885-1930) 311 -- Lawrence, T(homas) E(dward) (1888-1935) 312 -- League of Nations 312 -- Leavis, F(rank) R(aymond) (1895-1978) 314 -- Left Book Club 314 -- Legal Profession 315 -- Leisure 316 -- Lend-Lease 318 -- Lessing, Doris May Tayler (1919-) 318 -- Lewis, (Percy) Wyndham (1882-1957) 320 -- Liberal Party 321 -- Literary Criticism 323 -- Lloyd George, David (1863-1945) 325 -- London 328 -- London Government Since 1900 330 -- London School of Economics and Political Science 332 -- Lutyens, Edwin Landseer (1869-1944) 333 -- Lytton Commission (1931-2) 334 -- MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve] (1892-1978) 336 -- MacDonald, [James] Ramsay (1866-1937) 337 -- Macleod, Iain Norman (1913-1970) 339 -- Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold (1894-1986) 340 -- MacMillan, Kenneth (1929-1992) 342 -- MacNeice, Louis (1907-1963) 343 -- Major, John (1943-) 343 -- [Manchester] Guardian 345 -- Marks and Spencer 346 -- Marriage 347 -- Martin, (Basil) Kingsley (1897-1969) 348 -- Masefield, John Edward (1878-1967) 349 -- Massingham, H(enry) W(illiam) (1860-1924) 350 -- Mass-Observation (1937-1949) 351 -- Maugham, (William) Somerset (1874-1965) 352 -- Maxton, James (1885-1946) 352 -- Means Test 353 -- Medical Profession 353 -- Medical Research 355 -- Merchant Banks 357 -- Methodism 358 -- Milner, Alfred (1854-1925) 359 -- Miners Federation of Great Britain 361 -- Ministry of Munitions 362 -- Monarchy 363 -- Mond, Alfred Moritz (1868-1930) 366 -- Montagu, Edwin Samuel (1879-1924) 367 -- Montgomery, Bernard Law (1887-1976) 367 -- Moore, G(eorge) E(dward) (1873-1958) 368 |
| Responsibility: | edited by Fred M. Leventhal. |
Abstract:
Provides entries for key individuals and events, covering such topics as art, literature, health, politics, science, religion, social conditions, war, and women.
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