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________ Augustus John, Chatto & Windus, 1996
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Index
Adamson, William, 75
Ailesbury, Georgiana, Marchioness of, 98
aircraft see flying and aircraft
Albany, Helen, Duchess of, 179
Albee, Dr Frederick, 51
Albert, Prince Consort, 84, 225
Alcock, Sir John: transatlantic flight (with Brown), 105–6, 150
Aldershot: Cambridge Military Hospital, 56–7
Alexander, King of Greece, 258
Alexandra, Queen of Edward VII, 72, 82, 89, 141, 163
Allenby, General Edmund Henry Hynman (later Field Marshal 1st Viscount), 115, 118
Amazon, HMS, 29
Anderson, Sergeant Alfred, 15
Anderson, Jocky, 62
Ann, Douglas, 200–1
Ann, Drusilla, 200–1
Annie (Stoke Newington landlady), 199–200
Anson, Colonel G. E., 224
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 217
Arlen, Michael: The Green Hat, 126, 237
Armistice (1918): and demobilisation, 3;
celebrations and reactions to, 32–43;
first anniversary, 139–40, 142, 148;
and two-minute silence, 142–7, 149
Ash, Edwin L.: Nerves and the Nervous, 207
Ashley, Mrs (party-goer), 149
Asquith, Lady Cynthia, 6–7, 36, 181
Asquith, Herbert Henry (later 1st Earl): loses parliamentary seat, 75;
recommends Pelmanism, 98
Asquith, Katherine, 135
Asquith, Margot (later Countess), 217-18, 238
Asquith, Raymond, 98, 100, 113, 134-5
Astor, John Jacob, 46
Astor, John Jacob IV, 46
Astor, Nancy, Viscountess: marriage, 46;
and T. E. Lawrence’s distaste for the physical, 120;
wins parliamentary seat, 167–71, 205, 258;
teetotalism, 170, 185
Astor, Violet (née Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound), 45–7
Astor, Waldorf, 2nd Viscount, 46, 167
Astor, William Waldorf, 1st Viscount, 46, 167
Astor, William Waldorf (later 3rd Viscount; Nancy’s son), 169
Athlone, Princess Alice, Countess of, 228
Atkins, Arthur Tommy, 3, 11-12, 15, 198-200
Atkins, Kitty, 199-200
Atlantic: Alcock and Brown fly across, 105-6
Australia: first flight to, 150
Baden-Powell, Sir Robert (later 1st Baron), 98
Baker, Sir Herbert, 164-5
Balfour, Arthur James, 162, 170
ballet, 215-17
Ballets Russes, 152, 215-18
Banting, William, 136
Barnes, Annette, 35
Barrie, Madame (corsetière), 178
Barrie, (Sir) James Matthew, 264
Beadle, Charles and Frank, 213
Beale, Dorothy and Os, 176–7
Beale, Mary, 49, 176
Beaton, Cecil, 6
Beaverbrook, Gladys, Lady, 152
Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron, 148
Bedford, Adeline, Duchess of, 103
Beecham, Sir Thomas, 120, 152
Behind the Door (film), 84
Beldham, Sydney, 62
Bell, Clive, 36, 218
Bell, Vanessa, 36, 218
Belloc, Hilaire, 255
Bemberg, Herman, 215
Bennett, Arnold, 33
Bentley, W. O., 196
Berlin: Communism in, 83
Bickha
m, Mr (Boer War veteran), 13–14
bigamy: increase in, 68
Bill, Charlotte (‘Lalla’), 88-9
Binyon, Laurence, 25, 255
Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of, 258
Birth of a Nation, The (film), 220
Blake, Robert, Baron, 146
Blunden, Edmund, 261
Boston, Mass.: molasses tank accident, 185
Boutique Fantasque, La (ballet), 216
Bowlby, Sir Anthony, 65
Bragg, J. L., 18
Brett, Dorothy, 234-5, 250
Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme, 181
Britain: demonstrations and unrest, 121, 129-30, 137, 257
British Medical Council: and influenza epidemic, 93
British West Indian Regiment, 131
Brittain, Edward, 261–2
Brittain, Vera, 32–3, 255, 258–62
Brock, Dr Arthur J., 66-7
Broken Blossoms (film), 205–6
Brooke, Rupert, 53
Brooker, Daisy, 40
Brooker, Emily, 48
Brooker, George, 40
Brown, Sir Arthur Whitten: transatlantic flight (with Alcock), 105, 150
Brown, Jack, 122
Buchan, John (1st Baron Tweedsmuir), 115
Buckingham Palace: garden parties, 104
Buckmaster, Herbert, 35, 45, 193
Buck’s Club, London, 193
Bullock, John, 13, 15, 42
Bullock, Mrs (John’s mother), 42
Burke, Roland, 224–7, 229-32
Burton, Percy, 117–18, 120
Cambridge University: resistance to women students, 259
Campbell, Roy, 261
Canada: Prince of Wales tours and buys ranch in, 162, 164
Canterbury Cathedral: stained-glass windows returned, 102
Capel, Arthur, 174, 180
Capel, Lady Diana (formerly Wyndham), 148, 180
Cardiff: racial tensions, 129
Carleton, Billie, 133–4
Carnegy, Mildred: A Little Book for Those Who Mourn, 207
Carrington, Dora, 36–7, 238
Cartland, (Dame) Barbara, 4, 19, 83, 97, 183, 189, 193
Caruso, Enrico, 215
Cavell, Edith, 104, 268
Cecil, Lord David, 238
Cecil, Hugh (photographer), 139
Cenotaph: designed, 109, 265;
made permanent, 121;
and act of remembrance, 145, 147;
meaning, 263–4, 266;
unveiling, 267, 271–4
censorship: in wartime, 20
Chanel, Gabrielle (Coco), 34, 148, 158, 173-5, 180, 251
Change, William, 160
Channon, Sir Henry (‘Chips’), 104
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