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Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare) 1

  Merton College, Oxford 1

  Metamorphosis (Kafka) 1, 2, 3

  Miami Zoo, Florida 1

  Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare) 1

  Miles, Maurice 1

  Millar, Gavin 1, 2

  Miller, Arthur 1

  Miller, Charles 1

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  Miller, Jonathan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Miller, T [om] 1, 2

  Miller, Walter James 1, 2

  Millington, Mary 1

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  Milne, Christopher Robin 1

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  miners’ strike (1984) 1, 2, 3

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  National Gallery, London 1

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  National Observer 1

  national service 1, 2, 3, 4

  National Theatre, London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

  National Trust 1, 2

  ‘Naturally the Foundation Will Bear Your Expenses’ (Larkin) 1

  Negus, Arthur 1

  Neill, Patrick 1

  Neve, Michael 1, 2

  Nevinson, Christopher 1

  New Statesman 1

  New Theatre, London 1

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  New Yorker, 1, 2, 3

  Newcastle: all vomit and love-bites 1; Cathedral 2

  Newman, Cardinal 1; and Beverley Nichols 2

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  Norton, Kevin 1

  Norwich 1

  Not So Much a Programme More a Way of Life (television programme) 1, 2

  ‘Not Waving But Drowning’ (Smith) 1

  Notes Towards a Definition of Culture (Eliot) 1

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  Novodevichnaya Cemetery, Moscow 1

  Novy Mir 1

  Nuffield College, Oxford 1n

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  Old Vic, The, London 1, 2, 3

  Oliver! (musical) 1

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  Olivier stage, National Theatre, London 1, 2

  Oman, Julia Trevelyan 1, 2, 3, 4

  On the Margin (Bennett) 1, 2

  One Fine Day (Bennett) 1, 2

  1 Boulevard Haussmann (Bennett) 2, 3, 4

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  Oxford 1, 2

  Oxford Playhouse 1

  Oxford Theatre Group 1

  Oxford University: AB at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ;

  AB votes for Chancellor 1;

  flowering of talent in theatre at 1;

  funding 1;

  and Hungarian uprising 1;

  Larkin at 1, 2, 3 ;

  and Wind in the Willows 1;

  Wykehamists at 1

  Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Pagan Papers (Grahame) 1

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  Palmer, J. Wood 1

  Palmer, Tony 1

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  Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke 1

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  Parkinson, Lord (Cecil) 1

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  Passchendaele 1

  Paxman, Jeremy 1

  Pears, Peter 1

  Peck, Gregory 1

  Peel, Clarence (AB’s uncle) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Peel, Evelyn (AB’s great aunt) 1

  Peel, Kathleen (AB’s aunt) 1, 2, 3

  Peel, Lemira (Myra; AB’s aunt) 1, 2, 3

  Peel, Mary Ann (AB’s maternal grandmother) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Penshurst Place, Kent 1

  ‘People in the Sun’ (Hopper) 1

  Perfume (Suskind) 1

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  Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh 1

  Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life (Motion) 1

  Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein) 1

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th) 1

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  Powell, Anthony 1, 2, 3

  Powell, Enoch 1

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  Powell, Tristram 1

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  Pre-Raphaelites 1

  Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, The (Goffman) 1

  Price, Vincent 1, 2;

  gets dose of own medicine 1

  Prick Up Your Ears (screenplay) 1, 2, 3

  Priestley, J. B. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Pritchard, John 1

  Private Eye 1

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  Queen’s Hotel, Leeds: as superior takeaway 1

  Queen’s Theatre, London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Queen’s Christmas Broadcast 1

  Question of Attribution, A (Bennett) 1

  Question Time (television programme) 1

  Quinton, Anthony 1

  Racine, Jean 1

  Raimi, Shepherd 1, 2, 3

  Raine, Craig 1, 2, 3

  Rake’s progress The 1

  Ramses Hilton, Cairo 1, 2

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  Read, Piers Paul 1

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  Reagan, Ronald 1, 2, 3

  Rebecca (du Maurier) 1

  Red Brigade 1

  Redgrave, Lady 1, 2

  Redgrave, Sir Michael 1, 2

  Redwood, John 1

  Rees, Goronwy: and Marxist congress of Burgess and Blunt 1

  Regent’s Park, London 1, 2

  Reid, Pat 1

  Reith, Lord 1

  Remembrance of Things Past (Proust) 1 see also À la Recherche du Temps Perdu

  Reuter’s 1

  Revie, Don 1

  Reynolds, Dorothy 1, 2, 3, 4

  Rhodes House, Oxford 1

  Richard, Cliff 1

  Richard II (Shakespeare) 1

  Richard II, King 1

  Richard III (Shakespeare) 1

  Richards, Stan 1

  Richardson, Mu 1, 2

  Richardson, Sir Ralph 1, 2, 3, 4

  Richardson, Tony 1, 2

  Richmond Theatre, Surrey 1

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  Ring of Bright Water (Maxwell) 1

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  Riverside Studios, London 1, 2

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  Roseanne (television programme) 1

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  Royal National Theatre, London see National Theatre, London

  Royal Naval College, Greenwich 1

  Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (touring company) 1

  Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Royal Society of Literature 1, 2

  Russell, Bertrand 1, 2, 3

  Russia, visit to 1

  Rylance, Mark 1

  Rylands, George 1

  Ryle, Gilbert 1, 2

  Ryle, John 1

  Sabawala, Mrs (admirer of Gielgud) 1

  Sacks, Oliver 1, 2

  Sackville-West, Vita 1, 2, 3

  Saint-Denis, Michel 1

  St George’s Hall, Liverpool 1, 2

  St James’s, Piccadilly, London 1n, 2n

  St James’s Hospital, Leeds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  St James’s Theatre, King Street, London 1

  St John’s Centre, Liverpool 1, 2

  St John’s College, Oxford 1

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  St Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham 1

  St Michael’s church, Headingley, Leeds 1, 2

  St Pancras Cemetery, London 1, 2

  St Paul’s Cathedral 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  St Paul’s church, Covent Garden, London: an acoustic nightmare 1

  St Wilfred’s church, Harrogate 1

  Sainte-Beuve 1

  Saki (H. H. Munro) 1

  Saltaire 1

  Saltwood Bequest 1

  Sams, Jeremy 1

  Samuel, Maurice 1

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  ‘Sapper’ (Herman Cyril McNeile) 1, 2, 3

  Sargent, Sir Malcolm 1

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  Sartre, Jean-Paul 1

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  Savile Club, London 1

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  Savoy Hotel, London 1

  Sawley Hall 1

  Saye and Sele, Lady 1

  Sayers, Dorothy L. 1, 2

  Scargill, Arthur 1

  Schacht, Hjalmar 1

  Schafer, Kermit 1

  Schlesinger, John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Schofield’s, The Headrow, Leeds 1, 2

  School for Scandal (Sheridan) 1

  Seagull, The (Chekhov) 1

  Seaton Carew 1

  Second World War 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Secondary Worlds (Auden) 1

  Selected Letters of Philip Larkin (ed. Thwaite) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  ‘Self’s the Man’ (Larkin) 1

  Sellers, Peter 1

  Sense of Detachment, A (Osborne) 1, 2, 3

  Sereville, Genevieve 1

  Serpentine Gallery, London 1

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  Shaffer, Peter 1

  Shakespeare, William 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Shakespeare Memorial Company 1, 2

  Shakespeare Prize 1

  Shanahan, Martina 1

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  Shatrov, Mikhail 1

  Shaw, Don 1, 2

  Shaw, George Bernard 1, 2

  Sheffield football ground disaster 1

  Shepherd, Miss 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Sheppard, David, Bishop of Liverpool 1

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  Sherrin, Ned 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Shevelove, Bert 1

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  Shropshire Lad, A (Housman) 1

  Sickert, Walter 1

  Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 1

  Simple, Peter 1

  Simpson, Mrs Wallis (later Duchess of Windsor) 1, 2

  Singing Detective, The (Potter) 1

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  Sitwell, Sir George 1

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  1 Theatre 2, 3

  Skipton, Yorkshire 1, 2

  Slater, Jim 1

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  Smethwick by-election (1968) 1

  Smith, Carol 1

  Smith, Chris 1

  Smith, H. Tyson 1

  Smith, Maggie 1

  Smith, Neville 1, 2, 3, 4

  Smith, Stevie 1, 2

  Sniegowska, Barbara 1

  Sniegowski, Don 1, 2

  Soan, Mary 1

  SoHo, New York 1, 2

  South Bank Show (television programme) 1, 2, 3, 4

  South Riding (Holtby) 1

  Southport, Lancashire 1

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  Spencer, Earl 1

  Spender, Stephen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Sphinx, the 1

  Sportique, Old Compton Street, London 1, 2

  Springfield, Dusty 1, 2

  Stagecoach (film) 1

  Stalin, Joseph 1, 2

  Stalker, Hugh 1

  Stalker, Joan 1

  Stanley, Dean 1

  Stanton, Barry 1

  Stapleton, Jean 1

  Start the Week (radio programme) 1, 2

  Steadman, Alison 1

  Stedall, Jonathan 1

  Steiner, George 1

  Stern, J. P. 1

  Stigma (Goffman) 1

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  Stone, Reg 1, 2

  Stoppard, Tom 1, 2, 3

  Storey, David 1, 2, 3

  Strauss, Richard: Der Rosenkavalier 1

  Stravinsky, Igor 1

  Stravinsky, Vera 1

  Sturrock, John 1

  Sullivan, Francis L. 1

  Sun 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Sun King, The (Mitford) 1

  Sunday Telegraph 1, 2

  Sunday Times 1, 2

  Sunderland 1

  Sunset Across the Bay (Bennett) 1

  Suskind, Patrick 1

  Suspension Bridge, Glasgow 1

  Sutcliffe, Tom 1

  Swann, Robert 1

  Swedenborg, Emanuel 1

  Swimming Pool Library, The (Hollinghurst) 1

  Swinbrook church, Oxfordshire 1

  Syon House, Isleworth 1

  Tales of a Red Indian (Kafka) 1

  Talking Heads (Bennett) 1

  Tatler 1

  Taxi (television series) 1

  Taylor, A. J. P. 1, 2

  Taylor, Elizabeth: AB’s knee sat on by 1

  Tebbitt, Norman 1, 2, 3

  Tennant’s auctioneers 1

  Tenniel, Sir John 1

  Territorial Army Drill Hall, Handel Street, Bloomsbury 1

  Terry, Ellen 1

  Terry, Fred 1, 2

  Terry, Kate 1

  Terry, Marion 1

  Terry family 1, 2

  Thame Park, Oxfordshire 1, 2

  Thames Television 1

  Thatcher, Margaret 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, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36

  Thatcherism 1

  Theatre Royal, Brighton 1

  Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 1, 2

  There and Back to See How Far It Is, see Day Out, A

  Thesiger, Wilfred 1

  ‘They fuck you up, your mum and dad’ (Larkin) 1, 2

  ‘Thirty-Minute Theatre’ (television programme) 1

  Thomas, Dylan 1, 2

  Thompson, Francis 1

  Thompson, Ginger 1

  Thompson, Jack 1