1. See Smith 1978, 39; and Andrew Thorpe, The Longman Companion to Britain in the Era of the Two World Wars 1914–1945 (London: Longman, 1994), 3–9, for useful background and chronologies of this period.
2. David Cannadine, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (1990) (London: Macmillan, 1996), 190.
3. Adrian Gregory, The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 1, 288.
4. House of Commons Library Research Paper 99/111;J Hicks,1999
5. Daily Express, These Tremendous Years, 1919–1939 (London: Daily Express Publications, 1939), 4.