and establishment of NATO
and European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM)
Falklands War (1982)
family breakdown
film industry
financial deregulation
fishing industry
general elections: (1945); (1950); (1951); (1959); (1970); (1974); (1979); (1983)
gold reserves
and GreekWar
IMF bail-out (1976)
import surcharges
income per capita
Industrial Revolution
industrial wastelands
inflation
intelligentsia
and Iran
Lend-Lease aid
and Malaya
and Marshall Plan
middle classes
miners’ strike (1984-5)
monarchy
National Health Service
nationalization of industry
navy
North Sea oil
nuclear weapons
oil imports
Poll Tax
post-war debt
post-war shortages and rationing
privatizations
productivity levels
property prices
public transport
race riots
scientific and technological developments
Second World War
shipbuilding
steel industry
strikes
Suez crisis
taxation
television
textile industry
trade unions
underclass
unemployment
universities
Welfare State
Westland affair (‘Westgate’; 1986)
winter weather of 1946-7
withdrawal of forces from Gulf (1971)
zone of occupation in Germany
British Airways
British Commonwealth
British Empire:
American antipathy towards
decline of
decolonization
revitalization attempts
trade
British Leyland (automobile manufacturer)
British Petroleum (BP)
British Steel
British Telecom
Brittan, Sir Samuel
Bronfman, Edgar
Brown, Andrew
Brucan, Silviu
Bruce, David
Bruges
Brussels
Brussels Exhibition (1958)
Brussels Pact (1948)
Bryan, William Jennings
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
Bucak, Mehmet Celal
Bucharest
Buck, Pearl S.
Buckley, William
Budapest:
anti-Communist demonstrations
author’s travels in
dinginess of communist era
Jews in
Piarist School
Stalinization
war damage
Buddhism
Buenos Aires
Bukovsky, Vladimir
Bulgakov, Mikhail
Bulganin, Nikolay
Bulgaria
Bullock, Alan, Baron
