Hallo, gentlemen! Specially our British fellows!

I have been researching and it turns out that I am too dumb at it... I am in the need for a general perspective of Great Britain's internal politics since 1929, a little before the depression until 1940. I have researched by looking at the different goverments, but it hasn't given me concise dates or data. Just says if James Ramsey McDonald this, if Stanley Baldwin that, if the labourists, the liberals, the general election but nothing really precise. Nothing about unemployment, India, Ireland, colaition governments...

I kind of need dates of agreements, scandals, strikes, economical figures, personalities... It wouldn't be too bad if I could get some data about the internal policies during the war... And maybe a little bit further until 1955... The independence of the colonies, particullarily Palestine and Kenya...

Please, it is for the novel I am writing. You can be sure you'll be in the credits!

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

Freddy, you're covering a long period and many different aspects. Can you be more specific? For one thing you had the advent of the Labour Party and associations with the Communist movement and fears that a Soviet style revolution could happen in Britain. Then there was the rise of the nazis and their sympathisers all the way up to monarchy.

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Well, you'll see. There's a character who's British, noble and officer in His Majesty's Army. He travels to Germany in February 1934 for the wedding of his best friend's daughter. He comes up with some horrible incidents with the SA. Then he has a long conversation with his German friends about politics. I know the German part: unemployment, lack of food for the population and resources for the industries, the people not agreeing with the violent nazi policies, the undisciplinned SA, the bussinessmen being angry about the SA prospect of continous revolution and the Army officers afraid of Röhms' ambition... Well, detaily stuff. But I have nothing about Great Britain... Indeed the era I'm talking about is indeed very extense, but all my novel is very extense ad detailed and I don't find adequate to have details in every aspect of German politics and not including Great Britain when 20% of the story happenes there...

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

So 1934, the ‘Night of the Long Knives’ era?

I hope the info below helps and the web sites with their links.

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The Economy between the Wars - Depression 1918 - 39
Following the conclusion of the First World War, the war-time coalition government, led by Prime Minister David Lloyd George, was returned to power, promising to build 'a land fit for heroes to live in'. However, after a brief spell of post-war prosperity, industrial profits and wages began to fall and demobilised soldiers found it difficult or impossible to find jobs.
By the summer of 1921 there were over two million people unemployed and strikes were on the increase. There was widespread suffering and deprivation. The Lloyd George coalition government collapsed after a series of scandals in 1922 and the country's economic crisis continued to worsen. A series of short-term governments attempted to cope with the crisis (including, from 1924, Britain's first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald).

The worst period of the Depression followed the crash of the Wall Street financial markets in 1929. In Britain, unemployment peaked just below three million in 1932. A year before, in August, the Labour government had resigned and been replaced by a Conservative-dominated National Government. Although the British economy stabilised under the National Government and unemployment began a steady decline after 1935, it was only with re-armament in the period immediately before the outbreak of World War Two that the worst of the Depression could be said to be over.

George V
http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon60.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MOgeorgeV.htm
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/George...United_Kingdom

Palestine
http://www.etzel.org.il/english/ac02.htm

Fascism in Britain
http://www.essaybank.co.uk/free_coursework/1377.html

Persons:
http://www.time.com/time/time100/index.html
In here you can find much info about leaders, scientists, and more, like Churchill, Gandhi, Flemming.

Englands history 20th sentury:
http://www.britannia.com/history/nar20hist3.html

It's from 1918-1939 and then you have to press the "Chapter 8, continued"-button at the bottum of the screen to proceed.

I hope that this will help you a bit.
What will the books title be?

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Yours faithfully, Munken

"Veni, Vidi, Vici"= I came I saw, I conquered. - Julius Caesar.
"We shall never surrender"- Winston Churchill.
"United we are strong, united we will win"

Fried, although covers whole world, not a bad book for that, I seem to remember the Collins history of the 20th century one volume massive paperback.

Not a bulletin pointer as some history's can be but contains dates, contracts etc in the text split up into various nations at the times.

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Prepare to repel borders.
William L. McGonagle, MOH, U. S. Navy, Commanding Officer, USS LIBERTY 1967.

Many, many thanks gentlemen! Thanks to nine, Munken and urqui! That will certainly be useful, thanks!

Munken: the book doesn't have a tittle yet. I am awful at inventing tittles, so if I don't want to ruin the book, I'll wait for suggestions when it's finished. But meanwhile it's tittled: "Kein Name" (no name).

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun