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Tables of Contents for Britain Since 1945
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Tables
xii
 
Preface
xiv
 
Acknowledgements
xv
 
Note and acknowledgements to the second edition
xvi
 
Acknowledgements to the third edition
xvii
 
Acknowledgements to the fourth edition
xviii
 
Acknowledgements to the fifth edition
xix
 
List of Abbreviations
xx
 
Summer Victories
1
9
Japanese to `fight resolutely'
1
1
Churchill's defeat
2
1
`Incredulity' as Conservatives lose
3
2
Attlee's team: `These fine men'
5
1
Attlee: `One of the best Chairmen'
6
1
Britain: `it won't be easy'
7
1
Notes
8
2
Achievement and Austerity Under Attlee, 1945-51
10
18
Britain being `flayed to the bone'
10
1
American loan: `This was a disaster'
11
1
Public ownership: `I've waited all my life for this moment'
12
3
National Insurance: a `paltry sum'
15
1
The NHS: `vested interests lined up'
16
2
Housing and education: `hands were tied'
18
1
Constitutional and trade union reform
19
2
RAF: `incitement to mutiny'
21
2
Conservatives get `best salesman'
23
2
Election 1950: `real detestation of . . . Labour'
25
1
Notes
25
3
Colonial Retreat and Cold War
28
26
Paul Robeson congratulates
28
1
Indian Independence: `struck me . . . with a riding whip'
28
2
Palestine: `Arbas be encouraged to move out'
30
5
Colonies: `under the guidance of the Mother Country'
35
2
War in Malaya
37
1
Cold War: `magnates . . . who financed Hitler'
38
3
Marshall Aid and NATO
41
2
Korea: as `democratic . . . as Caligula's Rome'
43
2
Iran: `proud and subtle a people'
45
2
Election `51: after `exhausting and undignified process'
47
1
Decline of socialism: `some form of Gestapo'
48
2
Notes
50
4
Churchill and Eden, 1951-57
54
16
`Our future . . . little better than a German satellite'
54
1
Churchill's Cabinet: `reminiscent of bygone times'
55
2
The Bevanites: `complacent assumptions'
57
1
Eden: `high order of intelligence'
58
1
1955: `first of the electioneering Budgets'
58
1
Gaitskell's `great talent and firm loyalty'
59
1
ITV: `For the sake of our children . . . resist it'
60
2
Cinema and the press
62
1
Europe: `Much ado about nothing'
63
1
Suez 1956: `That does amount to a lie'
64
3
Notes
67
3
Macmillan and the Affluent Society, 1957-64
70
47
Macmillan: `more cousins and less opposition'
70
2
Macmillan: `capable of being ruthless'
72
1
Cyprus: `no question of any change'
73
2
Economy: `like bicycling along a tightrope'
75
2
`Nonsense . . . that our trade unions . . . are irresponsible'
77
2
`Most of our people have never had it so good'
79
2
Russians in space: `frivolity' of the British
81
2
Kenya: Hola camp `sub-human individuals'
83
1
Africa: `The wind of change is blowing'
84
2
Kuwait: `expensive to stay; hard to get out'
86
1
Aden: `Tolpuddle martyrs of the Middle East'
87
1
`Socialism that dares not is bound to fail'
88
2
H-bomb: `naked into the conference chamber'
90
2
New Left: a `sense of outrage'
92
2
Labour's `class image'
94
2
`Pacifists, unilateralists and fellow-travellers'
96
1
EEC: `the end of a thousand years of history'
97
1
EEC: `No three cheers for British entry'
98
2
Economic troubles: the `guiding light'
100
1
Mac the knife's `July massacre'
101
1
`Speculators . . . holding the community to ransom'
102
1
Profumo: `tawdry cynicism'
103
1
Home premier: `bad joke of democracy'
104
2
Britain: `relegated to . . . third class'?
106
2
Children: `if they believe they're second class'
108
1
The public schools: `a divisive factor'
109
1
Wilson: `Let's GO with Labour'
109
2
Kennedy shot: `I didn't believe it'
111
1
Election '64: `things might start slipping'
112
1
Notes
113
4
Wilson's Attempts at Reform, 1964-70
117
45
`. . . the news from Moscow'
117
1
Wilson: `a modern counterpart of Richard III'
117
2
Civil Service: `excessive power'
119
2
Labour: `treated as ships passing in the night'
121
1
Sterling: `a symbol of national pride'
122
1
Brown at the DEA
123
1
Defence: `They want us with them'
124
2
Technology: Britain's `inability to stay in the big league'
126
2
Rhodesia: `her conscience has haunted him'
128
1
Heath replaces Home: `no gratitude in politics'
129
2
Wilson's 1966 victory: timing `was faultless'
131
1
`Labour Government is really finished'
132
1
Crisis, 1966: `the frailty of a Chancellor's hopes'
133
2
IRC: `a kind of government-sponsored merchant bank'
135
1
Rhodesia: `round and round in circles'
136
2
War in Nigeria
138
1
Anguilla: `mock-gunboat diplomacy'
139
1
EEC: `get us in, so we can take the lead'
140
1
Devaluation: `the money in our pockets'
141
1
Industrial relations: `committing political suicide'?
142
2
Cutting Defence: `we were all dogs'
144
1
A `post-midnight' Privy Council
145
1
Student protests: `nasty touch of authoritarianism'
146
1
Immigration: this `distasteful necessity'
147
2
Powell: `a nation . . . heaping up its own funeral pyre'
149
1
Northern Ireland: `Blatant discrimination'
150
2
Commons `spellbound'
152
2
Lords `frustrate . . . elected Government'
154
1
David Steel: `exceptional courage'
155
2
Election '70: `exquisite June morning'
157
1
Notes
157
5
The Unexpected Prime Minister: Edward Health, 1970-74
162
17
Downing Street: `The shutters were fastened'
162
1
`Restrict provision to . . . where it is more efficient'
163
2
Industrial relations: `all hell will be let loose'
165
1
Local government reform: `expense . . . not adequately faced'
166
1
Corruption: `no option but to resign'
167
1
NHS: Joseph's `administrative labyrinth'
168
1
Northern Ireland: `severe discrimination'
169
2
Immigration: `only in . . . special cases'
171
1
EEC: `something to get us going again'
172
1
Oil crisis: `Danegeld is Danegeld'
173
2
Miners' strike: `it looked as if we were not interested'
175
1
Election '74: Powell-`vote Labour'
176
1
Notes
177
2
Labour's Minority Governments, 1974-79
179
34
Wilson's Cabinet: `buoyant atmosphere'
179
2
Northern Ireland: `considering . . . total withdrawal'
181
1
Election October '74: `fighting like hell'
182
2
Thatcher: `shattering blow . . . to . . . Conservative establishment'
184
2
A decade of women's liberation
186
4
EEC referendum: Wilson fought `like a tiger'
190
2
Industry: `The gap gets wider each year'
192
2
Wilson goes: `astonished Cabinet'
194
2
Steel: `quiet exterior . . . determined man'
196
1
Crime: `violence . . . a natural aspect of society'
197
2
Northern Ireland: `hope to a tragic community'
199
2
Bullock: `more thoughtful . . . management'
201
3
Pay policy: `ankle-deep in muck and slime'
204
2
Devolution referenda: `the valleys were deaf'
206
2
Election '79: `cradled a calf in my arms'
208
2
Notes
210
3
Thatcher's `Revolution', 1979-83
213
21
Thatcher's Cabinet: no `experience of running a whelk-stall'
213
1
Thatcherism: `money . . . opens . . . astonishing range of choice'
214
1
Budget '79: `an enormous shock'
215
1
Thatcher: `Je ne l'aime'
216
2
Rhodesia to Zimbabwe: `the large gamble'
218
1
Thatcher: `loathed the trade unions'
219
1
Labour: `an angry conference'
220
1
SDP: `the choice . . . will be deeply painful'
221
3
Thatcher: `I too became extremely angry'
224
1
`Why Britain Burns'
224
2
The Falklands: `picking up the remains . . . in plastic bags'
226
4
Election '83: `longest suicide note in history'
230
2
Notes
232
2
Thatcher: Triumph and Fall, 1983-90
234
38
Grenada: government `humiliated'
234
2
Scargill: `northern clubland humour and popularist Socialism'
236
3
M15 `controls the hiring and firing of BBC staff'
239
2
1985: `government by slogan'
241
2
The Anglo-Irish Agreement: `treachery'
243
1
Privatization: `selling off the family silver'
243
3
Confusion on defence
246
2
Thatcher's hat-trick
248
1
BBC: `lack of balance'?
249
3
`Greed is good'
252
2
`Black Monday' 1987
254
1
Rushdie: `prisoner in his own country'
254
1
Football hooliganism
255
1
Prison riots/convictions `flawed'
256
2
Educational reform: `lecturers' pay . . . buys less'
258
2
NHS: `terminally ill'?
260
2
IRA: `those killed . . . not . . . carrying arms'
262
1
Goodbye SDP
263
1
`Disaster of the poll-tax'
264
1
`Some . . . identikit European personality'
265
1
Thatcher's last Cabinet
266
1
Thatcher's fall: `Few . . . spared a moment to regret'
267
1
Notes
268
4
In Major's `Classless Society', 1990-96
272
35
John Major: `Cabinet no longer . . . confrontation'
272
1
War in the Gulf
273
2
Maastricht: Britain `at the heart of Europe'?
275
1
Election 1992: Major defies the odds
276
2
Euro '94: Labour's new hopes
278
2
Literature: `over 8,000 novels'
280
1
`It's all over for England'
281
2
Clinton in Ireland: `making a miracle'
283
2
Mad cows and Englishmen
285
1
Conservatives' war: `put up or shut up'
285
2
Bosnia: `Hell's kitchen was cooking'
287
1
Changing Britain
288
3
Lottery fever
291
1
The `sleaze factor'
291
2
Monarchy in crisis
293
2
Farewell to Castlemartin
295
1
Former ministers: `Shamelessness of this move . . .'
296
1
New Labour: `Pledge to Rich'
297
1
`From inequitable to inhuman'
298
1
Election '97: `Deep national impatience'
299
2
Results: `A tidal wave . . .' over the Conservatives
301
3
Notes
304
3
Blair's New Labour Experiment
307
40
Blair's Cabinet
307
2
Hague: Conservative leader
309
1
Liberal Democrats: Ashdown goes
310
1
Decline of political interest?
310
2
Coming out
312
1
Taskforces: `A much wider source of advice'?
313
2
Devolution and constitutional change
315
1
The Lords reformed
316
1
Not in Euroland
317
1
Conflict in Kosovo
318
1
Navy: `Overcommitted . . . and undermanned'
319
1
`SAS train anti-fraud officers'
320
1
Long negotiations in Northern Ireland
321
2
Universities: `Increasingly . . . global'
323
1
Primary education
324
1
NHS: `Steadily to deteriorate'?
325
1
Wealth and social justice
326
2
Privatization and safety
328
1
In foreign hands
329
1
Racism in police
330
4
Celebrating the millennium
334
3
Women 2000
337
1
Lonely Britain?
337
1
Conservative Party problems continue
338
2
Blair cult
340
2
London: `Dangerous buffoon' beats party machines
342
2
Notes
344
3
Appendix: Tables
347
10
Selected Bibliography
357
11
Index
368