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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

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