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Accord 1
Action Aid 1
Acton, Harold 1
Adam, Ken 1
Adam Smith Institute, London 1, 2
Adams, Richard 1
Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool: not all that it’s cracked up to be 1
Adler, Larry 1
Afternoon Off (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4
Agate, James 1
Age of Chivalry exhibition, Royal Academy: curious graffiti at 1
Ages of Man, The (Gielgud one-man show) 1, 2
Aids 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ailes, Anne 1
Airedale Hospital, Keighley 1, 2, 3
Alcoholics Anonymous: AB inveigled into attending 1
Aldwych Theatre, London 1
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll) 1, 2
Alice in Wonderland (Miller production) 1
All Day on the Sands (Bennett) 1, 2, 3
All Souls College, Oxford 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Allen, Woody 1
Alternative Service Book 1, 2
American Friendship Society 1
Amis, Kingsley 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Anderson, David 1
Anderson, Lindsay 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Andreev, Leonid 1
Andrews, Anthony 1
Andrews, Eamonn: Miss Shepherd offers to stand in for 1
Animal Farm (Orwell) 1, 2
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) 1
Anouilh, Jean 1
Any Questions (radio programme) 1
A. P. Watt Ltd, 1
Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London 1, 2
Appleby horse fair 1
Aquileia 1
Archer, Lord 1
Arles 1
Armley, Leeds 1, 2, 3
Armley Baths, Leeds 1
Armley Library, Leeds 1, 2
Armley National School, Leeds 1
Armstrong, Alun: sudden change of character of, on opening a Gideon’s Bible 1
Army Cadet Corps: persistence of puttees in 1
Arundel Castle 1
‘Arundel Tomb, An’ (Larkin) 1
Ashcroft, Dame Peggy 1
Ashdown, Paddy 1
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1; distasteful Leonardo in 2
Asylums (Goffman) 1
‘Aubade’ (Larkin) 1
Auden, W. H. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Auden: An American Friendship (Miller) 1
Auden in Love (Farnan) 1, 2
Austen, Jane 1, 2
Austwick 1, 2
Avedon, Richard 1
Axelrod, George 1
Bachardy, Don 1
Bacon, Francis 1
Baddeley, Hermione 1
Bader, Douglas 1, 2
Bagnold, Enid 1
Bailey, Paul 1, 2, 3
Baker, Sir Herbert 1
Baker, Kenneth 1
Baker, Stanley 1
Balkan Trilogy (Manning) 1
Balliol College, Oxford 1; ugliness of 2
Bamber, David 1
Banbury 1, 2
Banbury, Frith 1
Bancroft, Sir Squire 1
Barbie, Klaus 1
Barker, Howard 1
Barnes, Julian 1
Barnett, Lady Isobel: AB’s sister in suffering 1
Bart, Lionel 1
Bassett, John 1
Bates, Alan 1, 2
Baxter, Keith 1
Bayley, John 1
BBC 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28;
and A Day Out 1, 2, 3;
Home Service 1;
Light Programme 1;
Radio 1, 2, 3, 4;
Third Programme 1
BBC1 1
BBC2 1, 2
BBC Northwest 1
Beaton, Cecil 1, 2
Beckett, Samuel 1, 2
Beckinsale, Richard 1
Beeching, Dr: as thin end of an increasingly nasty wedge 1
Beerbohm, Max 1
Beeston, Leeds 1
Beginning Again (Woolf) 1
Belfast 1, 2
Bell, Virginia 1
Belle Isle, Leeds 1
Bennett, Arnold (AB’s cousin) 1, 2
Bennett, Bill (AB’s uncle) 1, 2
Bennett, Geoff (AB’s cousin) 1
Bennett, George (AB’s uncle) 1
Bennett, Gordon (AB’s brother) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
in Second World War 1, 2, 3, 4;
baptism 1;
and books 1;
and father’s dance-band phase 1;
in army cadets at Guildford 1
Bennett, Jill 1, 2
Bennett, Jim (AB’s uncle) 1
Bennett, Lilian (née Peel; AB’s mother) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15;
and books 1, 2, 3, 4;
and brother Clarence 1, 2 ;
in cafes 1, 2;
desire to ‘mix’ 1, 2
and education, 1, 2, 3;
evacuation to Wilsill 1;
Haworth visit 11;
in hotels 1, 2 ;
meets T. S. Eliot 1, 2, 3;
and Oxford University 1, 2, 3 ;
in Weston-super-Mare 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Bennett, Walter (AB’s father) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
against social pretensions 1, 2;
anniversary of death 1 ;
and books 1, 2, 3, 4;
in cafes 1, 2;
desire to ‘mix’ 1, 2;
and education 1, 2;
employment 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
and family’s evacuation to Wilsill 1, 2;
grave of 1;
in hotels 1, 2, 3 ;
illness 1;
and Lilian’s sisters 1, 2;
literary ambitions 1;
as musician 1, 2, 3, 4;
and Oxford University 1
Benson, A. C 1, 2
Benson, E. F. 1, 2
Benson, Sir Frank 1
Bendey, Phyllis: as local-lass-makes-good 1
Berenson, Bernard 1
Berkeley nuclear power station 1
Berkoff, Steven 1, 2
Berlin 1
Berlin, Isaiah 1: and Ken Dodd 2
Bernstein, Leonard 1
Bernstein, Sidney 1
Betjeman, John 1, 2, 3
Bettany, Michael (Ministry of Defence employee) 1
Better Class of Person: An Autobiography, A (Osborne) 1
Better Late (Oxford Theatre Group revue) 1
Betty’s Café, Leeds 1
Beyond the Fringe (Bennett, Cook, Miller and Moore) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11;
and AB’s Anglican sermon 1;
in America (1962) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Bader and 1;
in Brighton 1, 2 ;
first script onference 1;
in London 1, 2;
second edition 1
Big Breakfast, The (television programme) 1
Billington, Michael 1
Bird, John 1
Birt, John 1
Birthday Party, The (Pinter) 1
Blackburn Cathedral 1n
Blackpool 1, 2
Blair, Tony 1
Blake, William 1
Blier, Betrand 1
Bliss, Arthur 1
Blockley, Gloucestershire 1
Blomfield, Sir Reginald 1
Bloomsbury Group 1
Blunt, Anthony 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Blunt, Dorothy 1
Blunt, Violet 1
Blunt, Wilfrid 1
BMA (British Medical Association) 1
Bodleian Library, Oxford 1
Bogarde, Dirk 1
Bokassa, ex-Emperor of the Central African Republic 1
Bolshoi Ballet 1, 2
Bolton disaster (1946) 1
Book of Common Prayer 1
Booker, Christopher 1
Booker Prize 1, 2
Bootle 1
Bosnia 1, 2
Boston Spa Tennis Club 1
Bottomley, Virginia 1
Bowles, Paul 1
Bowman, Ruth 1, 2
Boxer, Mark 1, 2
Boyle, Andrew 1
Bradbury, Ernest 1
Bradford, W. Yorkshire 1, 2
Bradford football ground disaster 1, 2
Bradford Museum 1
‘Bragg, Melvyn’ 1, 2, 3
Brahms, Johannes 1, 2
Brain, Roger 1
Braine, John 1
Bramley, Leeds 1, 2
Branagh, Kenneth 1
Brasenose College, Oxford 1
Brasserie Bofinger, Paris 1
Brecht, Bertolt 1, 2
Brennan, Maeve 1, 2, 3
Brenton, Howard 1
Brewster, Barry 1
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Brien, Alan 1, 2
Briers, Richard 1
Brighton, Sussex 1, 2, 3
Brighton bombing (1984) 1
Bris, Roger de 1
Bristol RC Cathedral 1
Bristol Children’s Hospital 1
British Library, London 1
Britten, Benjamin 1, 2
Brod, Max 1, 2
Brontë, Emily 1
Brontë family 1, 2, 3, 4
Brook, Peter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Brookes, Susan 1, 2, 3
Brookes, W [arwick] 1, 2, 3, 4
Brooks, Mel 1
Broughton Castle 1, 2
Brown, Cedric 1
Browne, Coral 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Brueghel, Jan: Fall of Icarus 1
Bruges 1, 2
Bryant, Michael 1, 2
Brynmor Jones Library, Hull 1, 2, 3
Buchan, John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Buchanan, Jack 1, 2
Buckingham Palace, London 1
Budd, Bill 1
Budden, Professor Lionel 1
Bulger, James 1
Bunin, Ivan Alexeievich 1
Buñuel, Luis 1
Burgess, Guy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Burke, Edmund 1, 2, 3
Burley Woodhead school 1, 2
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley 1
Burton, Richard 1, 2
Burton, Sibyl 1
Buscot Park 1
Bush, George 1, 2
Butler, Eamonn 1
Butler, R. A. 1
Butterfield, Herbert 1
‘Byline’ (television series) 1
Byng, Douglas 1
Byril Farm, Wilsill, Nidderdale, Yorkshire 1
Byron, Robert 1, 2, 3
Cadell, Seline 1
Caine, Michael 1, 2
Caird Hall, Dundee 1
Cairo 1
Cairo Museum 1, 2
Callow, Simon 1, 2
Cambridge 1
Cambridge Footlights 1
Cambridge Reference Library 1
Cambridge University: AB tries for a scholarship 1, 2;
Housman at 1;
and Hungarian rising 1;
Joint-Services Russian course 1, 2, 3
Camden Brasserie, London 1
Camden Town, London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Campbell, Donald 1
Campbell, Nell 1
Camus, Albert 1, 2
Canetti, Elias 1
Cantona, Eric 1
Caretaker, The (Pinter) 1
Carey, John 1
Caroline of Brunswick, Princess 1
Carpenter, Edward 1
Carpenter, Humphrey 1, 2
Carter, Jim 1, 2
Cash, Tony 1
Cassel, Sir Ernest 1
Casson, Sir Lewis 1
Catchword (television programme) 1
Caton, R. A. 1
Cavell, Edith 1
Cecil, Lord David 1
Chamberlain, Neville 1
Changing Room, The (Storey) 1
Channon, Chips 1, 2
Chapman, Robin 1
Charge of the Light Brigade, The (film) 1, 2, 3
Charles, HRH The Prince of Wales 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Charlotte, Queen 1
Chas Walker & Sons (of Leeds) 1
Chatsworth 1
Chatwin, Bruce 1, 2
Cheers 1
Chekhov, Anton 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Chernobyl disaster 1, 2
Chez Solange, Cranbourne Street, London 1
Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame 1
Chichester, Sussex 1, 2
Chippendale’s 1, 2
Church of England 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Churchill, Sir Winston 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ggarette Liz 1
Civic Restaurant, Town Hall, Leeds 1, 2
Claridge’s Hotel, London 1, 2
Clark, Alan, MP 1, 2, 3
Clark, Lord (Kenneth) 1, 2
Clarke, Kenneth 1, 2
Claudel, Paul 1
Cocktail Party, The (Eliot) 1
Codron, Michael: infant impresario 1; white suit of 2;
replacement of actress’s cardigan by 1
Cohen, Janet 1
Cole, G. D. H. 1
Coleman, David 1
Coliseum, London 1, 2
College English (Gibson) 1
College of Cardinals: cardboard urged on as material for papal crown 1
Collier, Patience: drunken friends of 1
Collingwood, Lord 1
Colossi of Memnon 1
‘Coming’ (Larkin) 1, 2
Common Market 1, 2
Comper, Ninian 1
Compton-Burnett, Dame Ivy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Condemned Playground, The (Connolly) 1
Connaught Hotel, London 1
Connolly, Cyril 1, 2, 3, 4
Connors, Jimmy 1
Conquest, Robert 1, 2, 3, 4
Conservative Party 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Cook, Peter 1, 77, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Cooper, Diana 1
Cooper, Giles 1
Co-operative Society 1, 2, 3, 4
Cortot, Alfred 1
Cossins, Jimmy 1, 2
Cotán, Juan Sanchez 1
Cottage Road cinema, Leeds 1
Coulsdon 1, 2
Courtenay, Tom 1
Coventry 1, 2, 3
Coventry Award of Merit 1
Coventry Central Library 1
Coward, Noël 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Cox, Brian 1
Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of
Canterbury 1, 2, 3, 4; Thomas Cranmer prize 5
Cranston, Maurice 1
Cranston Street Hall, Edinburgh 1
Craven 1
Crazy Gang 1
Criminal, The (film) 1
Criss Cross Quiz (television programme) 1
Crittall, Ariel 1
Crompton, Richmal 1, 2
Crown cinema, Tong Road, Leeds 1
Crown Hotel, Harrogate 39, 1
Crown Prosecution Service 1
Cuckoo in the Nest (Travers) 1
Cunard, Emerald 1
Dadd, Richard 1
‘Daddy’ (Plath) 1
Daily Express 1
Daily Mail 1, 2, 3
Daily Mirror 1
Daily Telegraph 1, 2, 3, 4
Dalby, Rev., 1
Daldry, Stephen 1
Dale, Janet 1
Dales Museum 1
Daniels, Stanley 1
Davies, Andrew 1
Davies, A [nne] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Davies, Ben 1, 2
Davies, Robin 1, 2, 3, 4
Davies, Trevor 1, 2, 3, 4
Davis, Bette 1, 2
Davis, Carl 1, 2, 3
Day Out, A (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4
Day-Lewis, Dan 1
de Candole, H. H. Vully, Bishop of Knaresborough 1
de L’Isle, Lord 1, 2
De Profundis (Wilde) 1
Death on the Rock (Thames Television programme) 1
Death Railway, Thailand 1
Delius, Frederick 1, 2
Delmé Quartet 1, 2
Dench, Judi 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Denison, Michael 1
Department of Health 1, 2, 3
Devine, George 1, 2
Devonshire, Andrew 1
Diaghilev, Serge 1, 2
Diana, Princess of Wales 1, 2, 3, 4
Diaries (Channon) 1
Diaries (Clark) 1
Diary of Adrian Mole (Townsend) 1, 2
Diary of Virginia Woolf, The (ed. Bell) 1n
Dickens, Charles 1, 2, 3
Dickens, Monica 1
Dictionary of National Biography 1
Didcot 1
Dietrich, Marlene 1
Dinner at Noon (Bennett) 1, 2, 3
Ditton, Jason 1n
Dixon, Mr (teacher) 1
Dodd, Ken 1; and Wittgenstein 2
Don Giovanni (Gielgud production) 1, 2
Donaldson, Willie 1
Donat, Robert 1
Donmar Studios, London 1
Donnellan, Declan 1
Dorchester Abbey 1
Dorchester Hotel, London 1
Douglas-Home, William 1
Downbeat 1
Downs, Coulter & Co (of Bradford) 1
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan 1
Dozo, Colonel: divine intervention in discovery of 1
Dragon School 1
Dream Days (Grahame) 1
Dresser, The (Harwood) 1, 2
Duckworth’s (Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd) 1
Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville 1, 2, 3
Duvitski, Janine 1
Dykes, J. B. 1
Dymant, Dora 1
Ealing Studios 1, 2, 3
Eaton, Michael 1
Eddington, Paul 1
Edgar, David 1
Edinburgh 1
Edinburgh Festival 1
Edward VII, King 1, 2, 3
Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor; as Prince of Wales) 1
Egerton, Judy 1
Eisenstein, Sergei 1
Electric Cinema, Bradford 1
Eliot, T. S. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Elizabeth II, Queen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Elliott, Denholm 1
Elliott, Michael 1, 2
Ellis, Alice Thomas see Haycraft, Anna
Ely 1
Ely Cathedral 1, 2
Emmanuel College, Cambridge 1
Emmerdale Farm (television programme) 1
Emperor, The (Kapuscinski) 1
Encounters (Goffman) 1
England in the Age of the American Revolution (Namier) 1, 2
English Heritage 1, 2
English Nature 1
Englishman Abroad, An (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Enjoy (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
ENSA (Entertainments National Services Association) 1
Entertainer, The (Osborne) 1
Epstein, Jacob 1
Eton College 1
Evans, Dame Edith 1
Evening News 1
Evening Standard 1, 2, 3
Ewelme 1
Exchange and Mart 1, 2
Exeter College, Oxford 1, 2, 3, 4
Experimental Theatre Club 1
Eyre, Richard 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Eyre, Ronald 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Faber and Faber 1, 2
Falklands War 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Far Headingley, Leeds 1
Farnan, Dorothy J. 504n, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Fauré, Gabriel: Piano Quartet 1
Fawlty Towers (television series) 1
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) 1
