Hotspur 1, 2
House of Commons 1
Houses of Parliament, London 1
Housman, A. E. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
How Green Was My Valley (film) 1
Howard, Elizabeth Jane 1
Howard, Leslie 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Howard, Michael 1
Howerd, Frankie 1
Howgill Fells 1
Hubberholme 1, 2
Hughes, Howard 1
Hughes, Ted 1, 2, 3
Hull 1, 2
Hulton, John 1
Hunslet, Leeds 1, 2, 3
Hunt, Anne 1
hunting issue 1
Hürlimann, Martin 1
Hussein, King of Jordan 1
Hussein, Saddam 1, 2, 3, 4
Huston, John 1
Hustwitt’s Music shop, Tong Road, Leeds 1
Hutchinson, Mrs (vicar’s wife) 1
Hutton, Betty 1
Hutton, Lord 1
Hyde Park, Leeds 1
Hymn (Bennett and Fenton) 1
Hymns Ancient and Modern 1, 2
Hytner, Nicholas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Ibsen, Henrik 1
Ideal Home magazine 1
If … (film) 1
Ignatieff, Michael 1
Ilkley 1, 2
Ilkley Moor 1
Imperial War Museum, London 1
Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde) 1
In His Own Write (Lennon) 1
In the Light of Italy exhibition (Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1996) 1
Independent 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Ingleborough 1
Inglesham, near Lechlade 1
Ingleton 1
Ingrams, Richard 1
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique 1
Innsworth, RAF 1, 2
Insurance Man, The (Bennett) 1
Intelligence Corps 1, 2
Intensive Care (Bennett) 1, 2
Inverary 1
IRA 1, 2
Iraq war 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Is That All There Is? (film) 1
Isherwood, Christopher 1
Isle of Dogs, London 1
ITMA – It’s That Man Again (radio programme) 1, 2
It’s Not Unusual (television programme) 1
ITV 1
Izzard, Eddie 1
Jacob, Naomi 1
Jacobi, Derek 1
James, Clive 1, 2
James, Henry 1
Jameson, Storm 1
Jarman, Derek 1
Jenkins, Roy 1, 2
Jennings, Humphrey 1, 2
Jervaulx Abbey 1
Jew of Linz, The (Cornish) 1
Joad, Professor C. E. M. 1
John, Augustus 1, 2, 3
John, Gwen 1
John F. Kennedy International Airport 1
Johnson, Paul 1, 2, 3
Johnson, R. W. 1
Joint Services School for Linguists 1
Jones, Anthony: literary agent for AB 1
Jones, Jennifer 1
Jones, Monica 1; girlfriend and effectual relict of Philip Larkin 2, 3, 4
Jones, Thomas 1, 2
Joyce, Eileen 1
Jumble comic 1
Kafka, Franz 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Kafka’s Dick (Bennett) 1, 2, 3
Keats, John: ‘Isabella; or The Pot of Basil’ 1, 2, 3
Keighley, Yorkshire 1, 2
Kelly, Grace 1
Kelmscott Manor, Lechlade, Gloucestershire 1
Kennedy, B. H.: Latin Primer by 1
Kensington Palace, London 1
Kent 1, 2
Kent, Duchess of 1
Kent, William 1
Kentish Town Health Centre 1
Ketèlbey, Albert 1
Kettlebrook Meadows, Petersfield, Hampshire: home of Alec and Merula Guinness 1
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge 1, 2, 3, 4
Keynes, John Maynard 1
Kidbrooke, RAF 1, 2
Kilburn 1
Kilvert, Francis 1
Kind of Loving, A (film) 1, 2, 3
King, Jonathan 1
King, Martin Luther 1
King, Mr (PT master) 1, 2
Kingfisher, The (Douglas Home) 1
King’s College, Cambridge 1, 2, 3
King’s Cross Station, London 1
Kingsley, Charles 1
Kirkby Stephen 1, 2, 3, 4
Kirkgate, Leeds 1
Kirkstall, Leeds 1, 2, 3
Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds 1, 2
Kisdon Lodge, cottage rented by Rupert Hart-Davis in Swaledale 1
Kitson, Sidney 1
Kitt, Eartha 1
Klein, Calvin: underpants of, worn by AB 1
Knockout annual 1
Knott, Andrew 1
Knowles, Dom David 1, 2
Knox, Ronald 1
Kolkhorst, Colonel 1
Korean War 1
Korn, Eric 1, 2
Kosovo 1
Kramer, Jacob 1
Kruger, Otto 1
Kuala Lumpur 1, 2
Kubrick, Stanley 1
Kundera, Milan 1
Kushner, Tony 1
Lacombe Lucien (film) 1
Ladispoli, Italy 1, 2
Lady in the Van, The (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10n
Laing, R. D. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
‘Lake Isle of Innisfree, The’ (Yeats) 1
Lambert, Gavin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Lambert, John: Cromwellian general 1
LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) 1
Lancaster 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Lancaster Guardian 1, 2
Lancaster Moor hospital, Lancaster 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Landis, Jessie Royce 1
Landscape through Time (English Heritage series) 1
Langstrothdale 1
Larkin, Philip 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
Larkin Society 1
Lasdun, Denys 1
Last of the Sun, The (Bennett) 1, 2, 3
Late Middle Classes, The (Gray) 1
Latimer, Hugh 1
Laud, Archbishop 1
Laurence, St 1
Lawnswood, Leeds 1
Lawnswood School see Leeds Modern School
Lawrence, D. H. 1
Lawrence, T. E. 1
Lawrence, Sir Thomas 1
Lawrence inquiry 1
Lead, Yorkshire 1
Lear, Edward 1
Lee, Spike 1
Leeds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
pollution 1
in the Second World War 1
the colour and grimness of 1
provincial and unexciting 1
arms of the city 1
sacked by property developers (1960s) 1, 2
AB’s parents move to a village in the Dales 1, 2
see also under individual streets and buildings
Leeds and Bradford Airport 1
Leeds City Art Gallery 1, 2, 3
Leeds College of Art 1
Leeds Empire 1
Leeds Girls High School 1
Leeds Grammar School 1, 2, 3
Leeds Grand Theatre 1, 2
Leeds Modern School (later Lawnswood School) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Leeds Public Library 1
Leeds Reference Library 1, 2, 3
Leeds Town Hall 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Leeds United 1
Leeds–Liverpool Canal 1, 2
Lees-Milne, James 1, 2
Leeson, Nick 1, 2
Lehmann, Beatrix 1
Lehmann, John 1
Leigh, Vivien 1
Lejeune, C. A. 1
Lennon, John 1, 2
Leonardo da Vinci 1, 2, 3
Lesley, Cole 1
Less Deceived, The (Larkin) 1, 2, 3
L’Etoile restaurant, London 1
Levin, Bernard 1
Lewis, Wyndham 1
Lewis-Smith, Victor 1
Liberty and Livelihood March 1
Life Class (Storey) 1
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Lillie, Beatrice 1, 2
Lilliput 1
Lincoln Cathedral 1
Links, J. G. 1
Linnit, Michael 1
Liverpool 1
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 1
Livesey, Roger 1, 2
Llanberis pass, Wales: AB’s 17-year-old thigh stroked in (no trauma resulting) 1
Lloyd, Innes 1
Lloyd Webber, Andrew, Lord 1, 2
Loach, Ken 1, 2
Local Government Bill 1
Lombard, Carole 1
London Clinic 1, 2, 3
London Coliseum 1, 2
London Nautical School, Stamford Street, London 1
London Review of Books (LRB) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
London Review Bookshop: incompetent
Sunday Times reporter infiltrates 1
Longden, Deric 1
Lorre, Peter 1
Lost Horizon (film) 1
Loti, Pierre 1
Lourdes 1
Lovell Clarke, Reverend H., Archdeacon of Leeds 1, 2
Lowe, Arthur 1
Lowell, Robert 1
Lower Wortley, Leeds 1, 2, 3
Lower Wortley Co-op: Dickensian
conditions of employment at 1, 2, 3
Lowry, L. S. 1
Loy, Myrna 1
Luke, Peter 1
Lupino, Ida 1
Lutyens, Sir Edwin 1
LWT (London Weekend Television) 1, 2
Lympany, Moura 1
Lyons, I. Jack 1
Lyric cinema, Tong Road, Leeds 1
Lytham St Annes 1, 2, 3
Lyttelton, George 1, 2, 3, 4
Lyttelton theatre, London 1, 2
M&S (Marks & Spencer stores) 1, 2, 3, 4
Mabey, Richard 1
Macbeth (Shakespeare) 1
McCartney, Paul 1
McCowen, Alec 1
McCrum, Robert 1, 2
McDowall, Roddy 1
McDowell, Malcolm 1
McEachran, ‘Kek’ F. 1
McFarlane, Bruce 1, 2
MacGregor, Neil: AB’s Dutch blindspot startles 1
Macgregor, Roy 1, 2
McKellen, Sir Ian 1, 2
McKnight Kauffer, E. 1
McNally, Keith 1
McNally, Kevin 1, 2, 3
McQueen, Steve 1
McVie, Professor Gordon 1
Madness of George III, The (stage play) (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Madness of King George, The (film) 1, 2
Madrid train bombs (2004) 1
Magdalen College, Oxford 1, 2, 3, 4
Mahabharata (play) 1
Mahon, Sir Denis: self-deprecating philanthropist 1
‘Maiden Name’ (Larkin) 1
Mail on Sunday 1
Mainly about Lindsay Anderson (Lambert) 1, 2, 3, 4
Major, John 1, 2
Malham Cove 1
Malle, Louis 1
Malleson, Miles 1
Man and Boy (Rattigan) 1
Man on a Donkey (Prescott) 1n
Manchester 1
Manchester Grammar School 1, 2, 3
Mandela, Nelson 1
Manfield’s shoe shop, Commercial Street, Leeds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Manilow, Barry 1
Manning, Aubrey 1
Manning, Bernard 1, 2
Manon (Massenet) 1
Manston, RAF 1
Maresfield camp, Sussex 1, 2
Marks (Bennett) 1
Marr, Andrew 1
Marshall and Snelgrove store, Leeds 1
Marske Moor, Swaledale 1
Marvell Press 1
Mary I, Queen 1, 2
Mary Magdalene 1, 2
Mary, Queen 1
Marylebone High Street 1
Masham, Yorkshire 1
Mason, James 1, 2
Massey, Anna 1
Massine, Léonide 1
Massys, Quintin: Grotesque Old Woman (attrib.) 1
Matcham, Frank 1
Mates, Michael 1
Matter of Life and Death, A (film) 1, 2
Matthias Robinson store, Leeds 1
Maugham, Somerset: photographic resemblance to AB’s father 1, 2
Maundy Thursday 1
Maxwell Fyfe, David: Home Secretary and bigot 1
Mayer, Louis B. 1
Mayne, Roger 1
Me, I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Bennett) 1, 2, 3
Meanwood, Leeds 1, 2
Mecca Ballroom, Leeds 1
Medawar, Sir Peter 1
Medici Quartet 1
Medley, Robert 1
Mein Kampf (Hitler) 1
Melly, George 1
Merton College, Oxford 1
Methley church, Yorkshire 1
Methuen-Campbell, James 1, 2, 3
Metropole Hotel, Leeds 1
Metropolitan Museum, New York 1, 2
Mewton-Wood, Noël 1
Michelangelo 1
Middlesex Hospital, London 1, 2, 3
Midhurst, West Sussex 1, 2, 3
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare) 1, 2
Millais, Sir John 1, 2, 3, 4
Miller, Jonathan 1, 2, 3, 4
Miller, Max 1
Milligan, Spike 1
Ministry of Defence 1, 2, 3, 4
Training Area, Swaledale 1
Mint, The (Lawrence) 1
Miranda, Carmen 1
Miss Castleford 1996 1
Mitchell, Thomas 1
Mitford, Diana 1
Mitford, Nancy 1, 2, 3
Mitford, Unity 1
Modley, Albert 1, 2, 3
Moffatt, John 1
Monet, Claude 1
Monies, Dr 1
Mons barracks, Aldershot 1
Montagu case 1
Montaigne 1
Monte Cassino 1, 2
Montegufoni, Tuscany 1
Monteith, Charles 1
Monty Python 1, 2
Moon, Abbot 1
Moore, Dudley 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Moore, Henry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Moorfield Road, Leeds 1
Moorhouse, Geoffrey 1
Mor, Antonis 1
Morahan, Christopher 1
Moral Sciences Club, Cambridge 1
More, Sir Thomas 1, 2, 3
Morecambe, Eric 1
Morecambe, Lancashire 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Morley, John 1
Morley, Leeds 1
Morley, Robert 1
Mornington Crescent, London 1
Morris, William 1
Most Upsetting Woman, The (Buckle) 1
Mother Clapp’s Molly House (Ravenhill) 1
Motion, Andrew 1
Mount Grace 1
Mount Stewart, Northern Ireland 1
Mrs Miniver (film) 1
Much Binding in the Marsh (radio programme) 1
Mueller, W. J. 1
Muggeridge, Malcolm 1
Muker church 1
Municipal Architect’s Department, Leeds 1
Munro, Alice 1
Murdoch, Dame Iris 1, 2
Murdoch, Richard 1
Murdoch, Rupert 1, 2, 3, 4
Murphy, Eddie 1
Musée des Beaux Arts, Brussels 1
Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford 1
My Home magazine 1
My Secret Life (Walter) 1
Nail, Jimmy 1
Nailsea 1
Namier, Lewis 1
Napoleon Bonaparte 1, 2, 3
Nash, Paul 1
National Art Collections Fund exhibition (Christie’s, 1997) 1
National Gallery, London xiv, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
National Gallery of Art, Washington 1
National Gallery of Scotland 1
National Health Service (NHS) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
National Secular Society 1
National Theatre, London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
National Trust 1,
2, 3, 4
Naughtie, James 1
Neill, Sir Patrick 1
Nesbit, E. 1
Netherlands see Holland
New Bedford music hall, London 1
New Western Bingo and Social Club, Armley, Leeds 1
New Wortley Cemetery 1, 2, 3
New York 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
New York Review of Books 1
New Yorker 1, 2, 3
Newman, John Henry 1, 2
News of the World 1, 2
Newton, Sir Isaac 1
Nichols, Beverley 1, 2, 3
Nichols, Peter 1
Nicholson, Ben 1, 2
Nicholson, Nora 1
Nicholson, Sir William 1
Nicolson, Harold 1
Nidd River 1
‘Nights in the Gardens of Spain’ (Bennett) 1
Nijinsky, Vaclav 1 9/11 (September 11, 2001 attacks) 2, 3
Nine O’Clock News 1
Niven, David 1
Nora (AB’s cleaning lady) 1
Norfolk, Duke of 1
Norman, Jessye 1
Northern Ireland 1
Northover, Professor John 1, 2
Norton, Graham 1
Not Only … But Also (television series) 1
Not So Much a Programme (television programme) 1
Novello, Ivor 1, 2
Now, Voyager (film) 1, 2, 3, 4
Nunn, Trevor 1
Nureyev, Rudolf: as man and horse 1
O Lucky Man (film) 1
Oasis 1
Oberon, Merle 1
O’Brien, Edna 1
Observer 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ockham church 1
Odeon cinema, Guildford 1
OED (Oxford English Dictionary) 1
Oedipus (Seneca) 1
Ognall, Harry 1
O’Hare airport, Chicago 1
Olbia, Italy 1
Old Country, The (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
‘Old Couple, The’ (Pratt Green) 1
Old Crowd, The (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4
Old Sessions House, Clerkenwell Square 1
Old Vic, London 1, 2, 3, 4
Oliver, Eric 1
Oliver Twist (film) 1
Olivier, Laurence, Lord 1, 2, 3, 4
Olivier Theatre, London 1, 2, 3, 4
Omega Workshops 1
Omnibus (television programme) 1, 2
On the Waterfront (film) 1
Orleans House, Twickenham 1
Orpheus Descending (Williams) 1
Orton, Joe 1, 2, 3
Osborne, John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
O’Shea, Two Ton Tessie: large relentlessly cheerful comedienne 1
O’Sullivan, Maureen: ex-Tarzan’s Jane 1, 2
Otley, Yorkshire 1, 2
Otley Road, Leeds: No. 92A home of the Bennett family 1, 2, 3, 4
Our Miss Gibbs (musical) 1, 2
Over the Garden Wall (music hall act) 1
Owen, Michael 1
Owen, Wilfred 1, 2
Oxford 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse (ed. Larkin) 1, 2
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 1
Oxford martyrs 1
Oxford Playhouse 1
Oxford Theatre Group 1
Oxford University 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22