Introduction.- Britain Under the Tories 1815-30.- Parliament and the Great Reform Act of 1832.- Whig Reforms and Failures 1833-41.-Chartism.- Sir Robert Peel, the Conservatives and the Corn Laws 1830-46.- Domestic Affairs 1846-67: Russell, Gladstone, Disraeli and the Reform Act of 1867.- Lord Palmerston and Foreign Affairs 1830-65.- The Crimean War 1854-56.- Britain, India and the Mutiny of 1857.- Standards of Living and Social Reform: Factories, Mines, Public Health and Education.- Gladstone's First Ministry 1868-74.- Disraeli and the Conservatives in Power 1874-80.- Victorian Prosperity and Depression.- Gladstone and Salisbury 1880-95.- Ten Years of Conservative Rule 1895-1905.- The Growth of the Trade Unions and the Labour Party to 1914.- The State and the People from the 1890s to 1939.- The Liberals in Power 1905-14.- Britain, the First World War and its Aftermath.- Politics in Confusion 1918-24.- Baldwin, the Conservatives and the General Strike.- Political and Economic Crises, 1929-39: The Second Labour Government (1929-31), the World Economic Crisis and the National Governments.- Britain and the Problems of Empire Between the Wars.- Appeasement and the Outbreak of the Second World War: Foreign Affairs 1931-39.- Britain and the Second World War 1939-45.- Labour in Power: the Attlee Governments 1945-51.- The Rise and Fall of Consensus 1951-79.- The State of the People: Social and Cultural Change Since 1945.- Britain and its Parts: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.- Britain and Her Place in the World After 1945.- Britain and the End of the Empire.- Thatcherism and the New Right 1979-97.- Labour in Opposition and in Power, 1979-2010.- The Conservatives in Opposition (1997-2010) and in Coalition (2010-2015). schovat popis