Ashdown, Paddy
Atkins, Humphrey
Atlas Preservatives Ltd.
Attlee, Clement
B
Baker, James
Baker, Kenneth; as Environment Secretary; as Education Secretary; as Conservative party chairman
Bandar, Prince
Bank of England
Barber, Anthony
Beckett, Sir Terence
Begin, Menachem
Bell, Tim
Bellaunde, President
Beloff, Nora
Benn, Tony
Berlin wall
Berry, Anthony
Bevan, Aneurin
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali
Biffen, John; as Chief Secretary; as Leader of the House
‘Big Bang’
Bishop, Maurice
Black, Sir Douglas
‘Black Monday’
‘Black Wednesday’.
Blair, Tony; Prime Minister.
Blunt, Anthony
Boadicea
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bossom, Alfred
Botha, P.W.
Bowe, Coletteand n
Boyd, Lord
Boyd-Carpenter, John
Boyle, Andrew
Boyle, Edward
Brandt, Willy
Brezhnev, Leonid
Brighton hotel bombing
British Aerospace (BAe)
British Airports Authority (BAA)
British Airways (BA)
British Antarctic Survey
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
British Gas
British Leyland (BL)
British Medical Association (BMA)
British Medical Journal (BMJ)
British National Oil Corporation (BNOC)
British Petroleum (BP)
British Rail (BR)
British Shipbuilders
British Steel Corporation (BSC)
British Telecom (BT)
Britoil
Brittan, Leon; as Home Secretary; and Westland crisis; as European Commissioner
Brittan, Samuel
broadcasting
Brogan, Colm
Brooke, Henry
Brooke, Peter
Brown, Gordon
Bruce-Gardyne, Jock
Bruges Group
Buckingham University
Budgets: (1979) ; (1980) (1981) ; (1984) (1985) ; (1986) (1987) ; (1988)
Burgess, Guy
Burnet, Alastair
Bush, Barbara
Bush, George H.W., as Vice-President; as President; and Gulf War
Bush, George W.and n.
Buthelezi, Chief Mangosuthu
Butler, David
Butler, Sir Michael
Butler, R.A.
Butler, Robin
BX Plastics Ltd.
C
Callaghan, James; as Prime Minister; and 1979 election
Cameron, David
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
capital punishment
Carey, Archbishop George
Carlisle, Mark
Carr, Robert
Carrington, Peter; as Foreign Secretary,
Carter, Jimmy
Carver, Sir Michael
Castle, Barbara
Ceausescu, Nicolae
Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB)
Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS)
Centre for Policy Studies (CPS)
Chamberlain, Neville
Channel tunnel
Channon, Paul
Charles, Eugenia
Charles, Prince of Wales
Chatham, Earl of
Cheney, Dick
Chequers
Chernenko, Konstantin
Cheysson, Claude
Child Support Agency (CSA)
China
Church of England
Church of Scotland
Churchill College, Cambridge
Churchill, Winston
civil service
Clark, Alan
Clarke, Kenneth
Clarke, Peter
Clinton, Bill
Cockerell, Michael
Cockfield, Lord
Colchester
Cole, John
Coles, John
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Commonwealth
Community charge, see poll tax
comprehensive schools
Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE)
Conquest, Robert
Conservative Party: conferences: (1946) (1966) ; (1975) ; (1976) ; (1979) ; (1980) (1981) (1984) (1987) (1990) leadership contests: (1963) ; (1965); (1975) (1989) ; (1990); (1997) ; (2001)
Conservative Political Centre (CPC)
Conservative Research Department (CRD)
Cooper, Sir Frank
Corfield, Frederick
Costa Mendes, Nicanor
council house sales
Cradock, Sir Percy
Crawford, Cynthia
Critchley, Julian
Crowder, Sir John
Cuckney, Sir John
Cullen, Muriel (MT’s sister)
D
Daily Express
Daily Mail
Daily Mirror
Daily Star
Daily Telegraph
Dartford
Dalyell, Tam
Day, Robin
defence policy
de Gaulle, Charles
de Klerk, F.W.
de la Billière, Peter
Dell, Edmund
Delors, Jacques
Dench, Judi
Deng Xiaoping
devolution
Dewey, Thomas
Diana, Princess of Wales
Dickens, Charles
Dobbs, Michael
Dodds, Norman
Douglas-Home, Sir Alec (also Home, Earl of)
du Cann, Edward
Dukakis, Michael
Dulwich
Duncan Smith, Iain
E
economic policy
Economist
Eden, Sir Anthony
Edinburgh, Duke of
education
Edwardes, Sir Michael
Edwards, Nicholas
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
electricity privatisation
Elgar, Edward
Elizabeth I,
Elizabeth II, MT and
Elliot of Harwood, Lady
Emery, Fred
European Community (EEC/EC) ; MT supports British membership; 1975 referendum; British budget contribution; Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); European Monetary System (EMS)/ Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM); Single European Act (SEA); European elections (1989)
Evans, Harold
Evening News (London)
Evening Standard (London)
exchange controls, abolition of
F
Fagan, Michael
Fahd, King
Faith in the City
Falklands war
Faraday, Michael
Financial Times
Finchley
Finchley Press
Finer, S.E.
Fitzgerald, Dr Garret
Foot, Michael; as Labour leader and n.
football supporters
Ford, Gerald
Ford, Henry
Forsyth, Frederick
Fowler, Norman
Francis of Assisi, Saint
Franks, Lord
Fraser, Hugh
Fraser, Malcolm
Friedman, Milton
Frost, David
Fry, Christopher
G
G7 summits: Tokyo 1979: ; Ottawa 1981: Versailles 1982: Williamsburg 1983: Paris 1989:
Gadaffi, Colonel Muammar
Gainsborough, Thomas
Gale, George
Galtieri, General Leopoldo
Gandhi, Indira
Garel-Jones, Tristan
General Belgrano
General Elections: (1945) (1950) (1951) ; (1955) ; (1959) (1964) (1966) (1970) (February 1974) (October 1974)(1979)107 – 112; (1983) ; (1987): (1992) (1997) (2001)