Britain Since 1939: Progress and Decline Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
1	Interwar Britain, 1919-39	1
2	Britain and the World, 1919-39	23
3	Britain at War, 1939-41	37
4	From European War to World War and Victory, 1941-45	53
5	Britain under Attlee, 1945-51	74
6	From Churchill to Macmillan, 1951-60	104
7	Conservatives on the Run, 1961-64	125
8	Harold Wilson at the Helm, 1964-70	141
9	Trouble and Strife, 1970-74	164
10	Trouble and Strife, 1974-79	177
11	The Thatcher Era, 1979-87	196
12	Thatcher in Decline, 1987-90	217
13	Major's Avalanche of Problems	232
14	Britain and Ireland in the 1990s	249
	App. A.1 Key British ministers since 1918	261
	App. A.2 Leaders of parties in all governments of Irish Free State/Eire/Irish Republic since the general election of 27 August 1923	263
	App. A.3 British general elections, 1918-92	264
	App. A.4 Women elected to parliament in the UK and Germany at selected elections	265
	App. A.5 Expectation of life, at birth, by sex in the UK	265
	App. A.6 Population of the United Kingdom, in thousands	266
	App. A.7 Distribution of shareholding between categories of owner, 1963-89, in percentages	266
	App. A.8 Average gross domestic product per capita, in 1993, in the European Union, according to purchasing power, average = 100	267
	Select Bibliography	268
	Name Index	279
	Subject Index	286