Preface- the 1930s and 2018
- Reasons for writing this preface
- Historic tectonic plates, threats to the human race
- Migration, populism, nationalism
- The frivolity of the right, the nostalgia for empire
- Complexity
- The 1970s, the shift from the 1970s to the 1980s
- 2017-18 and the 1930s, comparison of the threats today with the 1930s
- The press
- “Make our Planet Great Again”
Introduction
- Primary sources and their interpretation
Context
- Contextual background 1919 – 1932
- Political conflicts in the UK
- Female suffrage
- International relations and treaties
- Social conditions
- The press
Peace
- Disarmament and the League of Nations
- Anti-French sentiments, British attitudes to France and Germany post-WWI
- Disarmament and the national press (1932)
- Party manifestoes (1929-1935)
- Opinion polls (1937-1939)
- League of Nations Union (1934-1935)
- Peace Ballot (1934-1935), public opinion, pacifism
- Catholic Herald, letters to the editor (1935-1936)
- Appeasement, German plans to assassinate Hitler prior to 1939
Fascism
- Fascist views, anti-semitism
- Supporters, fascist methods
- Olympia Rally (1934)
- Press reaction, official reaction
Spain
- English Catholicism, Catholic attitudes to fascism, Archbishop Hinsley versus pro-Republican Catholics
- Press reporting, reporters’ experiences in Spain
- Reporting the outbreak of hostilities in Spain
- Catholic reporting
- George Steer of the Times
- Political reaction, public reaction
- Conclusion
Britain in the 1930s 