Keeping On Keeping On

  Cranmer, Thomas 93

  Cream Cracker Under the Settee, A (Bennett) 91, 362

  Crittall, Ariel: puts age limit for knickers at eighty 189

  Crolla, Anthony 253, 299, 321, 334

  Crompton, Richmal 382–3

  Cromwell, Oliver 458, 477

  Cromwell, Thomas 214–15

  Crowley, Bob 509

  Crozier, Eric 63, 89, 427

  Cryer, Barry 5, 204, 253, 350

  Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) 292, 453

  Cumberland Market 175

  Daniel (AB’s neighbour) 285, 327

  Daniels, Elaine 334–5

  Daniels, John 335

  Darwin, Charles 118, 184

  Davidman, Joy 234, 235

  Davies, Anne (AB’s neighbour) 114, 116, 117, 128, 137–8, 172, 173: church packed at funeral of, 174, 246

  Davis, Bette 165

  Day Out, A (Bennett) 37, 115, 420–1, 451

  Daylsford Organic Farm Shop, Oxfordshire 12–13

  de la Tour, Frances 18, 198, 317, 345, 407, 414, 415

  de Menezes, Jean Charles 26–7, 53, 69, 322

  Death in Venice (Britten opera) 103–4, 427

  Debo (Deborah Mitford, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire) 118, 167–8, 183, 203–4, 225, 234, 265–6, 291, 318–19, 337–8

  Dench, Judi ix, 131, 317, 505

  Denmark Hill (Bennett) 517–18, 519

  Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss) 486

  Desert Island Discs (radio programme) 174, 259–60, 369

  Devonshire, Dowager Duchess of see Debo

  Dhawan, Sacha 56–7, 417, 420

  Diaries (Lees-Milne) 154

  Dilworth, Niamh 216

  Dombey, Norman 110

  Donaldson, Willie 22–3

  Dorchester Hotel 81, 227–8

  Dorset 102–3

  ‘Dorsetshire Labourer, The’ (Hardy) 34

  Douglas-Home, Alec 507

  Down Cemetery Road (Larkin readings, Cottesloe Theatre) 505

  Dream of Gerontius (Elgar) xiii

  Drucker, Gerald 212–13

  ‘Drummer Hodge’ (Hardy) 415

  Drury Lane Theatre, London 153–4

  Duggan, Mark 322

  Dundee, Scotland 133, 502

  Dunn, Andrew 415, 420

  Durham Cathedral 204–5

  Eagleton, Terry 112

  Easington, Oxfordshire 164

  East Coast rail franchise 146

  Easter Island 362

  Eddington, Paul 154

  Edensor, Derbyshire 203, 318, 337

  Edgelands (Farley/Roberts) 242

  Edlington, near Doncaster 201

  Education and the Working Class (Jackson/Marsden) 449, 450

  Edward VIII 155

  Egerton, Judy 260, 269

  Eliot, T. S. 295–6

  Eliot, Valerie 296

  Elizabeth I 172, 388

  Elizabeth II (HMQ) 26, 38, 70, 75, 76, 83, 113, 124, 126–7, 133, 144, 182–3, 278, 313, 502, 508

  Elland, West Yorkshire 274

  Ely, Cambridgeshire 83, 124

  Empson, William 19

  End of the Line, The (Cobb) 149

  English Heritage 186, 219, 299

  Englishman Abroad, An (Bennett) 166, 264, 434, 500, 501, 502

  Enjoy (Bennett) 89–90, 151, 432, 460, 699, 700–1

  Enright, D. J. 342

  Entertaining Mr Sloane (Orton) 173–4

  ‘Epistle to a Godson’ (Auden) 143

  Epsom Road, Guildford: home of the Bennett family in 168–9, 382–3

  Eton/Etonians 40, 41, 123, 190, 329

  EU referendum 376

  European Court of Human Rights 148

  Evans, Norman 452

  Evelyn Waugh 13, 129–30

  Evening With …, An (television programme) ix

  Everyman (Roth) 60

  Ewart, Gavin 265

  Exeter College, Oxford 82, 193, 313, 314, 332, 386, 425, 449, 491, 492

  Exit Ghost (Roth) 126

  Expresso Bongo (musical) 350

  Exton Church, Rutland 171–2

  Eyre, Richard 514

  Eyre, Ronald 506

  Faber and Faber 10, 28, 270, 296, 389

  Families Against the War 82

  Family Guy (television programme) 273

  Fanny Hill (BBC adaptation) 104–5

  Farley, Paul 242

  Farrer, Reginald 132

  Fatal Englishman, The (Faulks) 39–43

  Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk 466–7

  Fenton, George 67, 141, 154, 179, 182, 238, 275, 321, 439

  Fenton, James 125, 151

  Ferguson, Niall 244, 347

  Fernando, Olga (translator) 6

  Ferrara, Italy 97

  Ferrier, Kathleen 369–70, 428

  Festival of Britain (1951) 70, 71, 107–8, 162, 178, 364, 478, 485–6

  Festival of Remembrance 82

  Finch, Peter 502

  Finchale Priory, Co Durham 205

  Fincham, Paul 44, 45

  First World War 46, 73, 82, 218, 257, 308, 340, 381, 404, 699

  Fisher, Geoffrey 328

  Fisher, Sylvia 486

  Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 11, 118–19, 201–2, 300, 435

  Flash Gordon (film) 194

  Focus (Miller) 9

  Forster, E. M. 44, 229, 302, 379

  Fort Belvedere, Surrey 155

  Fortune, John 78–9, 87, 143–4, 169, 177, 320, 322, 391

  Fortune Theatre, London 21, 453

  Forty Years On (Bennett) 75, 105–6, 153–4, 179, 257, 293, 315, 321, 402–3, 434, 439, 451

  Foster, Norman 323–4

  Fountains Abbey 420–1, 478, 480, 482

  Four Feathers, The (film) 251–2

  France 71–2, 297–8, 352, 353, 480

  Frankland, Mark 474

  Frayn, Michael 334, 365

  Frears, Stephen 420

  French, Philip 360

  Freud, Lucian 253, 480

  Frost, David 113, 138

  Fry, Stephen 107, 225

  Gambon, Michael 8, 190, 317, 506

  Garland, Patrick 68, 88, 505

  Garsington Manor, Oxfordshire 294

  Gascoigne, Bamber 266

  Gatiss, Mark 259–60

  Gay Night at Bangs (Bennett, unfinished) 45

  Genet, Jean 182–3, 265

  Gentleman, David 161–3

  George VI 418

  Gerard (Debo’s chauffeur) 167

  Getting On (Bennett) 219, 280, 314, 433, 451, 459–60

  Gibbons, Grinling 171

  Gibbs, James 81, 386

  Gielgud, John 75, 100, 105, 178, 395

  Giggleswick School 232, 268

  Gill, Eric 257

  Gill, Peter 123

  Gilliatt, Penelope 501

  Gilly P. (AB’s reflexologist) 61, 67

  Gilpin Place, Leeds: No. 7 home of the Peel family 35, 227, 250, 369, 699–700

  ‘Gimmer, The’ (AB’s father’s stepmother) 237, 441

  Glossop, William 273–4

  Gloucester Crescent, Camden: no 23, home of AB x, 48, 50, 101, 104, 116, 137, 147, 253, 321, 322–3, 334, 340, 342–3, 345

  Goebbels, Joseph 258, 259

  Goldsworthy, Andy 206

  ‘Goodbye to the Villa Piranha’ (Hope) 145

  Gore, Spencer 175

  Gothenburg, Sweden 157–8

  Gove, Michael 217, 218, 289, 383

  Grand Theatre, Leeds 395, 451, 452, 485–6

  Granger, Derek 161

  Gray, Charles 133

  Greene, Graham 329

  Greene, Hugh Carleton 123

  ‘Greening of Mrs Donaldson, The’ (Bennett) 14

  Gresham’s School, Holt 88

  Griffiths, Richard 18, 195, 304, 307, 415

  Griffiths, Trevor 286

  Grigson, Geoffrey 229, 230, 231, 271

  Grimshaw, Atkinson 318, 479, 480

  Guardian 23, 33, 73, 87, 89, 112, 116–17, 129, 139, 155, 210, 212, 244, 325, 348, 464

  Guildford, Surrey
168–9, 382–3

  Guilding, Ruth 250

  Guinness, Alec 100, 105, 107, 123–4, 229, 292

  Habeas Corpus (Bennett) 75, 388

  Habit of Art, The (Bennett) xii, 103, 105, 121, 136, 181, 185, 190, 194–6, 198, 200, 202, 206, 220, 221, 228, 272, 298, 317, 425–35, 457, 459, 506, 509, 514

  Hall, Willis 499, 500

  Halliday Place, Leeds: No. 12 the first home of the Bennett family 118, 236, 255, 326

  Hamilton, Ian 116, 208

  Hamlet (Shakespeare) 187, 349, 518

  Hamstead Marshall, Berkshire 109

  Hamza, Abu 128

  Hand of God, The (Bennett) 517, 518–19

  Hanlon’s antique shop, Menston 230

  Happy Days (Beckett) 348

  Hardy, Jeremy 312

  Hardy, Thomas 11, 34, 103, 193, 263, 373–4, 415

  Harewood, David 459

  Harewood House, West Yorkshire 93, 459, 465, 478

  Harris, John 260

  Harrison, Tony 37, 78, 268, 308–9

  Harrogate Festival 218, 439–40

  Hart, H. L. A. 75–6

  Harty, Russell 55, 106, 200, 216

  Have I Got News for You (television programme) 326

  Hawarden, North Wales: AB’s crepuscular bath at 374

  Hay Festival 358–9

  Haycraft, Anna (aka Alice Thomas Ellis) 13–14

  Haycraft, Colin 13, 334

  Hayworth, Rita 122

  Headingley, Leeds 135, 221, 233, 383, 395, 479

  Healey, Denis 167, 367

  Heaney, Seamus 255, 256

  Heathrow Airport 54, 141, 152

  Henry VIII 93, 155, 180, 189, 308, 318, 338

  Henson, Nicky 64, 76

  Herrick, Robert 231

  Hess, Myra 281

  Hibbert, Christopher 172

  Hilary (owner of Gardenmakers) 287, 290, 310

  Hindle, Charlotte 14, 19

  Hindle, Frances 52

  Hindle, Madge 14

  Hindle, Michael 14

  Hinton St George, Somerset 261–2

  Hipkin, John 73

  Hird, Thora 362, 499–500

  Hislop, Ian 326

  History Boys, The (Bennett) 15, 18, 34, 52, 54, 56, 70, 75, 78, 81, 133, 136, 150, 195, 221, 244, 259, 281, 293, 317, 345, 347, 360, 403, 407–21, 433, 434, 447, 457, 463, 508–9, 514

  Hitchen’s (department store) 108, 153

  Hockney, David 40, 269, 278, 344, 480

  Hodgkin, Howard 260

  Hoggart, Paul 341–2

  Hoggart, Richard 259, 341–2, 448–9

  Hoggart, Simon 341

  Holbeck Moor, Leeds 342

  Holst, Imogen 89, 308

  Holt, Norfolk 88, 197, 285

  Homer 359

  Hope, Francis 43, 145

  Hope, Richard 360

  Hope, Robin 40, 474

  Horder, John 279, 282

  Horizon (literary magazine) 384–5

  House of Commons 5, 26, 30, 53, 95, 167, 372

  House, Gordon 100

  House of Lords 148

  Housman, A. E. 253

  Hubberholme Church, North Yorkshire 404, 442

  Huggins (trainee recruit): unlikely link with Professor D. W. Brogan 86–7

  Hughes, Michael 334

  Hughes, Ted 94, 207, 253, 279

  Hunslet, Leeds 341, 449

  Hunt, Jeremy 274, 312

  Hymn (Bennett) xii, 404, 439–42, 509

  Hytner, Nicholas xii, 52, 181, 194, 244, 317, 321, 327, 329, 334, 337, 351, 358, 368, 371, 407, 409, 414, 415, 416–17, 419, 420, 430–2, 459, 467, 507, 508, 513, 513–14, 514, 517

  I Haven’t Unpacked (Holt) 380

  Ilkley, West Yorkshire 239, 240, 267, 335

  In the Best Possible Taste (television programme) 280

  Independent 33, 125, 136, 173, 185–6, 391

  Independent on Sunday 180, 202–3

  Indignation (Roth) 157–8

  Ingham, Bernard: eyebrows of 49, 366–7

  Ingrams, Leonard 294

  Ingrams, Richard 14, 261

  Innocent X (Velásquez) 277

  Inspector Calls, An (Priestley) 366

  Inverness Street market, Camden 161

  Iraq War 23–4, 77, 82, 85, 87, 92, 95, 144, 371, 372

  Isherwood, Christopher 207, 229

  Italy 6–8, 10, 83–4, 96–8, 97, 129, 133, 161, 274–7, 331

  Jackson, Brian 449, 450

  James, Henry 19, 120–1

  Jarrell, Randall 77

  Jehovah’s Witnesses: J. Miller the scourge of 95–6

  Jennings, Alex 317, 339, 368, 371, 509

  Jervaulx Abbey 188–9, 324, 481

  JFK Airport, New York 54, 67, 141

  John Bull (magazine) 380

  John, Gwen 252

  Johnson, Boris 142, 326

  Jonathan Cape (publishers) 389

  Jones, Anthony (AB’s agent) 223, 337

  Jones, Thomas 269

  Journals and Diaries (Forster) 302

  Journals (Powell) 154

  Jowett, Benjamin (Master of Balliol) 19, 421

  Judd Street, London 53

  Judt, Tony 220–1

  Kafka’s Dick (Bennett) 151–2, 432, 434

  Kane, Sarah 347–8

  Kate M. (witness at AB’s civil partnership ceremony) 52

  Kathleen, Aunty see Roach, Kathleen

  Kearney, Martha 348–9

  Kedermister Library, Langley 152–3

  Keen, Maurice 218, 284

  Keepers of the Flame (Hamilton) 116

  Keith, Penelope 320

  Kennedy, Bobby: hairiness of 168

  Kennedy, Charles 48

  Kennedy, Jackie 106, 453–4

  Kennedy, John F. 168, 292, 453–4

  Kensal Rise Library, London 247–8, 259

  Kentish Town Health Centre 281–3

  Kermode, Frank 19, 135

  Kettle, Arnold 135–6

  Ketton-Cremer, R. W. 466–7

  Kind of Loving, A (film, dir. Schlesinger) 499–500

  King Lear (Shakespeare) 348

  King, Mr (AB’s PE master) 418

  King’s College Chapel, Cambridge xii, 131, 328–9, 395, 397

  King’s Cross Station x, 26, 32, 112, 252, 330–1, 336

  King’s Parade, Cambridge 119, 328

  Kirkgate Market, Bradford 313

  Kirkstall Abbey 179, 478

  Kites’ Nest, Worcestershire 73

  Knightsbridge towers 324

  Knole Park, Kent 15–16

  Knott, Andy 81

  Knox, Ronald 257

  Korean War 135–6, 339, 472

  Korn, Eric 203, 365

  Kramer, Jacob 384

  La Campana restaurant, Rome 8

  La Grillade restuarant, Leeds 139, 258, 300

  Labour Party 30, 223, 244, 284, 363, 391, 399

  Lacock Abbey/village, Wiltshire 52, 91

  Lady of Letters, A (Bennett) 90, 362

  Lady in the Van, The (Bennett) ix, 268, 279, 321, 339, 340, 356, 358, 370, 371, 372

  Lancaster Castle 460

  Lansley, Andrew 259, 272

  Larkin, Philip ix, 43, 69, 71, 98, 132, 193, 207, 231, 241–2, 270, 302, 366, 400, 402, 415, 442, 447, 505

  Last Night of the Proms (television programme) 314

  Last Word (radio programme) 144, 269–70, 281

  Lawnswood School see Leeds Modern Lawrence, Stephen 267

  Lawson, Mark 198, 345

  Lead Church, Yorkshire 289–90, 301

  Leader, Zachary 86

  Lee, Stewart 312

  Leeds x, 9, 16, 25, 53, 58–60, 67, 73, 90, 93, 106–7, 129, 130, 135–6, 139, 167, 169, 175–6, 178, 203, 204, 212, 220, 230, 241, 247, 262–3, 270, 289, 295–6, 315, 317, 334–5, 342, 365, 395–7, 448, 448–9

  AB’s concert-going in xiii, 108, 127, 212–13, 370–1

  Armley see Armley

  Grand Theatre 395, 451, 452, 485–6

  Headingley 135, 221, 233, 383, 395, 479

  Hunslet 341,
449

  libraries of 309, 379–86, 384

  restaurants/cafés in 139, 240–1, 258, 298, 300, 310

  Temple Newsam House 230, 458–9, 477, 479

  in wartime 271, 340, 364–5, 382, 446–7

  Leeds Art Gallery 60, 458, 477, 478, 479, 480

  Leeds Central Library 59, 350, 383–5, 478

  Leeds City Market 230, 233, 313, 458

  Leeds Grammar School 78, 268, 384–5

  Leeds Infirmary 448

  Leeds Modern (now Lawnswood School) 33, 59, 268, 383, 385, 413, 471

  Leeds Piano Competition 166, 218–19, 367

  Leeds Public Libraries 380

  Leeds Town Hall xiii, 60, 108, 127, 212–13

  Leeds Triennial Festival (1950) 370

  Leeds University 135, 384

  Lees-Milne, James 154, 463–4

  Leonardo da Vinci 266, 304

  L’Espiessac, France: earthly paradise at 71–2, 145–6

  Lesson of the Master, The (James) 120–1

  l’Étoile restaurant, London 5, 204

  Lewis, C. S. 75, 234, 235, 271, 332

  Liberal Democrats 211, 212

  Ljubljana, Slovenia 486–7

  Lloyd, Innes 123, 501

  Lodge, David 339

  Lofting, Hugh 381–2

  London 15, 48–9, 69, 203, 312, 349

  London bombings (2005) 23–4, 26–7

  London, City of 264

  London Olympics (2012) 23, 273, 285, 286

  London Review of Books (LRB) xii, 3, 17, 23–4, 87, 110, 116, 134, 231, 241, 242, 261, 296, 304, 306–7, 311, 340, 382, 391, 403, 485, 495

  AB’s diary in 87, 134, 174, 263

  Long Melford, Suffolk 158–60

  Lott, Tim 247, 248

  Loveday, Alan 127

  Low, Adam 194, 373

  Lucy (donkey) 187

  Luscombe, Chris 89

  Lutyens, Edwin 257

  Lyttelton Theatre, London 506, 507, 509

  Mabey, Richard 36–7

  McFarlane, Bruce 43, 114, 283, 301, 333, 491–5

  MacGregor, Neil 84–5, 119–20, 307

  McGregor, Roy (AB’s GP) 239, 242, 282

  MacGregor, Sue 281, 361, 362

  Macmillan, Harold 281, 296, 453, 462

  McNally, Keith 30, 179, 301, 302, 321

  MacNeice, Louis 229, 389

  Madison Avenue, New York 126, 127

  Madness of George III, The (Bennett) 253, 257, 407, 430, 507, 508

  Magdalen College, Oxford 40, 42, 43, 44, 76, 332, 491, 492, 493

  Magdalene College, Cambridge 19, 119, 328

  Major, John 39, 331, 343

  Man with a Blue Scarf, The (Gayford) 235

  Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas, The (Rogers) 71

  Manchester United 66

  Manhattan, New York 191–2, 209, 292

  Mantel, Hilary 214–15, 347

  Marchant, Helen (Debo’s PA) 318, 319, 337

  Marks and Spencer (M&S) 76, 137

  Marquand, David 40, 41, 492

  Marsden, Dennis 449, 450

  Marshall, Arthur 165–6

  Marshall and Snelgrove department store, Leeds 298