Domestic Soldiers (37 page)
- 11-plus examination
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- 1941 Committee
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- abdication crisis (1936)
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- Aberdeen
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- Acland, Sir Richard
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- Air Raid Precautions (ARP)
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- air raids
- air-raid wardens
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- Baedeker raids
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- Blitz
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- civilian casualties
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- ‘nuisance raids’
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- V-1 and V-2 bombs
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- Algeria
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- amateur dramatics
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- American GIs
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- Amery, Leo
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- Anderson shelters
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- Anglesey
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- anti-aircraft fire
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- Anzac Day
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- appeasement policy
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- Argentina
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- Arromanches
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- Athenia
, sinking of
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- Atkinson, Margaret
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- Atlantic Wall
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- atomic bomb
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- Attlee, Clement
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- Azad Hind
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- ‘baby blitz’
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- Badoglio, Marshal
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- Baedeker raids
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- Bankhead, Tallulah
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- Bardia
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- Barrow-in-Furness
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- Basic English
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- Bath
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- Battle of Britain
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- Battle of France
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- Bayeux
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- BBC
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- see also
individual programmes
- Beaverbrook, Lord
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- Belgium
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- Belsen
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- Berlin
- Allied capture of
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- RAF bombing raids
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- Bevan, Aneurin
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- Beveridge, William
- and coal rationing
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- and National Health Service
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- and social insurance
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- loses seat at the election
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- Beveridge Report
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- Bevin, Ernest
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- Bevin Boys
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- Bingley, Nancy
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- Birkenhead
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- Birmingham
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- air raids
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- war production plants
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- Birmingham Small Arms (BSA)
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- black Americans
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- black market
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- black propaganda
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- blackout
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- cover for romance
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- penalty fine for not obeying rules
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- restrictions lifted
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- Blackwell v. Blackwell
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- Blitz
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- baby blitz
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- Blitzkrieg
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- blood donors
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- Board of Trade
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- Boer War
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- Bore War
see
Phoney War
- Bourneville Utilities
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- Bradley, General Omar
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- Brains Trust
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- bread
- National Loaf
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- rationing
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- Brest
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- Bridges, Alice
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- and air raids
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- on the atomic bomb
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- attends psychology discussion group
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- background
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- on bombing of German cities
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- on Churchill
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- on D-Day
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- dressmaking business
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- on education reforms
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- and the end of the war
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- and evacuation
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- flirtations
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- and the general election
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- on the German people
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- on the Holocaust
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- ill health
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- on keeping up appearances
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- marital troubles
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- marriage, view of
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- on means-tested public assistance
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- on the Beveridge Report
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- and the outbreak of war
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- post-war years
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- on threatened German invasion
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- war work
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- widowed
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- Bridges, Jacqueline
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- Bridges, Les
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- Brighton quickie
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- Bristol
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- British Expeditionary Force (BEF)
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- British Restaurants
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- British Union of Fascists (BUF/BU)
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- Buchenwald
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- bureaucracy
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- Burma
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- Burma Road
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- Butler Act (Education Act)
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- by-elections (1943)
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- calorie intake
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- Canterbury
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- Cardiff
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- ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ propaganda
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- Casablanca conference (1943)
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- central heating, ban on
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- Chamberlain, Joseph
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- Chamberlain, Neville
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- Channel Islands
- evacuation of
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- occupation of
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- Chiang Kai-shek
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- children, evacuation of
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- Christmas Days
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- Churchill, Clementine
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- Churchill, Winston
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- on America’s entry into the war
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- and the Basic English project
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- and the Beveridge Report
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- and D-Day
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- and the Dunkirk evacuation
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- on equal pay
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- on fall of Singapore
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- on fall of Tobruk
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- Four Years’ Plan
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- on Gandhi
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- and the general election
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- Gestapo speech
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- ill health
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- on the Italian campaign
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- oratory
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- out of office
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- public discontent with
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- cigarettes
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- cinema
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- Civil Defence and Anti-Aircraft duties
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- civil defence injuries
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- Clark, Lieutenant General Mark
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- class issues
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- coal
- poor quality
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- rationing
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- shortages
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- coal-mining
- Bevin Boys
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- pay structures
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- strikes
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- wartime conditions
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- coalition government
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- Cold War
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- Cologne, bombing of
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- Common Wealth Party
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- Communal Feeding Centres
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- communism
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- compensation for injuries
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- concentration camps
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- conscription
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- Constantine, Learie
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- cookery
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- see also
domestic management
- Cooper, Gary
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- cosmetics
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- cost of living
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- ‘Coventration’
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- Coventry
- Coward, Noël
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- crime
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- black marketeering
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- careless talk, criminalization of
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- defeatism, prosecutions for
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- evacuation system abuses
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- insanity defence
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- looting
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- sale of coupons and ration books
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- waste, criminalisation of
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- workplace theft
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- Cripps, Mrs (housekeeper)
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- Cripps, Sir Stafford
- and Indian independence
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- on the Beveridge Report
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- Czechoslovakia
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- German invasion of
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