Akenfield (Blythe), ref1, ref2, ref3
Alexander, Field Marshal Harold, ref1, ref2, ref3
Allen, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Almost a Gentleman (Osborne), ref1
American Civil War, ref1, ref2
Amery, Leo, ref1
Amis, Hilly, ref1, ref2, ref3
Amis, Jaime, ref1
Amis, Jane, see Howard, Elizabeth Jane
Amis, Kingsley, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 (see also individual works)
cruel streak in, ref1
drinking habits of, ref1
drug use by, ref1
generous nature of, ref1
Jane walks out on, ref1
Leader’s Life of, ref1
marriages of, ref1
memorial service for, ref1
offence given in books by, ref1
panic attacks suffered by, ref1
and sex, ref1
types of book preferred by, ref1
writing style of, ref1
Amis, Martin, ref1
at father’s memorial service, ref1
Amis, William, ref1
Anderson, Benedict, ref1
Angry Young Men, ref1, ref2
Anson, Denis, ref1, ref2
Archer, Lord ( Jeffrey), ref1
Arden, Mary, ref1
Aristotle, ref1
Arkell-Smith, Valerie, ref1
Armstrong, Robert, ref1
Armstrong, Sir William, ref1
Arnold, Matthew, ref1, ref2, ref3
Aron, Raymond, ref1
Arthur Machen (Starrett), ref1
Asbury, Herbert, ref1
‘The Ash Tree’ ( James), ref1
Ashburton, Lord, ref1
Ashcroft, Peggy, ref1
Ashley, Minnie, ref1
Aslet, Clive, ref1, ref2
Asquith, H. H., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 passim, ref6, ref7
and drink, ref1
edited letters of, ref1
general elections ‘won’ by, ref1
and Ireland, ref1
as war leader, ref1
and WW1 declaration, ref1 (see also World War One)
Asquith, Helen, ref1, ref2
Asquith, Katharine, ref1
Asquith, Margot, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
diary kept by, ref1
Asquith, Raymond, ref1
Asquith, Violet, see Bonham Carter, Violet
Atatürk, see Kemal, Mustafa
Attlee, Clement, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Aubrey, John, ref1
Auden, W. H., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Austerlitz (Sebald), ref1, ref2
Austin, Bunny, ref1, ref2
Auto da Fé (Canetti), ref1
Aveling, Edward, ref1
‘Baa Baa, Black Sheep’ (Kipling), ref1
The Bachelors (Spark), ref1
Backhouse, Sir Edmund, ref1
Bacon, Alice, ref1
Bacon, Francis, ref1
Bad Blood (Sage), ref1
Bagehot, Eliza, ref1
Bagehot, Robert, ref1
Bagehot, Thomas, ref1
Bagehot, Walter, ref1, ref2, ref3 (see also individual works)
often wrong, ref1
on democracy and government, ref1
on France, ref1
on Peel, ref1, ref2
parents’ censure of writings of, ref1
Prochaska’s ‘memoirs’ of, ref1
and Social Darwinism, ref1
transformation of attitude in, ref1
Bagwell, Mrs, ref1
Balcon, Jill, ref1
Baldwin, Stanley, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Balestier, Wolcott, ref1
Balfour (Adams), ref1
Balfour, Arthur, ref1, ref2, ref3 (see also individual works)
Declaration of, ref1
in intellectual circle, ref1
and Ireland, ref1, ref2
and love and romance, ref1
and psychical research, ref1
and Rosebery, ref1
seat lost by, while PM, ref1
sloth exhibited by, ref1, ref2
sporting interests of, ref1
Valentine letter of, ref1
Balfour, Eleanor, ref1
Balfour, Lady Frances, ref1
The Ballad of Peckham Rye (Spark), ref1
Ballard, J. G., ref1, ref2
Banks, Sir Joseph, ref1
Barker, Paul, ref1 passim, ref2
Barnes, William, ref1
Barnett, Correlli, ref1
Barrack-Room Ballads (Kipling), ref1
Bayley, John, ref1, ref2
Bean, Dr, ref1
Bearman, Robert, ref1
Beauvoir, Simone de, ref1
Beaverbrook, Lord, ref1
Bebbington, David, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Beckett, Samuel, ref1
Bede, Ven., ref1,ref2
Beerbohm, Max, ref1
Beevor, Antony, ref1
Bell, Adrian, ref1, ref2
Bell, Anthea, ref1, ref2
Bell, Clive, ref1
Belloc, Hilaire, ref1
Bellow, Saul, ref1, ref2
A Bend in the River (Naipaul), ref1
Benedict XVI, Pope, ref1
Beningfield, Gordon, ref1
Benn, Tony, ref1
Bennett, Alan, ref1, ref2, ref3 (see also individual works)
cancer suffered by, ref1
diaries of, ref1
and knighthoods, ref1
and mother, ref1
‘national treasure’ status of, ref1
plays of, ref1
Bennett, Arnold, ref1
Bennett, Jill, ref1
Bennett, Lilian, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bennett, Walter, ref1
Benson, A. C., ref1, ref2
Berenson, Bernard, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Berkshire, ref1
growth of towns in, ref1
Berkshire (Tyak, Bradley, Pevsner), ref1 passim
Berlin, Sir Isaiah, ref1, ref2
Bernadotte, Count, ref1
Bernal, J. D., ref1
Bernanke, Ben, ref1
Berners, Lord, ref1, ref2
Besant, Annie, ref1, ref2
Besant, Rev. Frank, ref1, ref2
Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von, ref1
Betjeman, John, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10 (see also individual works)
childlike qualities of, ref1
and modernist project, ref1
on nostalgia, ref1
paranoia experienced by, ref1
and son, ref1
Betjeman, Paul, ref1
Betjeman, Penelope, ref1, ref2
Betjemann, Ernest, ref1
A Better Class of Person (Osborne), ref1, ref2
Bevin, Ernest, ref1
Biffen, John, ref1
Biko, Steve, ref1
Bingo (Bond), ref1
The Biographer’s Moustache (Amis), ref1
Birkenhead, Lord, ref1
Birrell, Augustine, ref1
Blackhouse, Edmund, ref1
Blair, Tony, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Blake, Robert, ref1
Blake, William, ref1
Bland, Sir Simon, ref1
Blunkett, David, ref1
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, ref1
Blythe, Ronald, ref1, ref2 (see also individual works)
Bond, Edward, ref1
Bonham Carter, Sir Maurice ‘Bongie’, ref1
Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Violet, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bonham, Francis, ref1
Booker, Christopher, ref1
Boothby, Bob, ref1
Born in Exile (Gissing), ref1
Borotra, Jean, ref1
‘The Bowmen’ (Machen), ref1
Bowra, Sir Maurice, ref1
Bowring, Sir John, ref1
Boycott, Rosie, ref1
Bradbursy, Malcolm, ref1
Bradlaugh, Charles, ref1, ref2 (see also individual works)
editorial aims of, ref1
enters Commons, ref1
funeral of, ref1
oath taken by, ref1
prosecution invited by, ref1
republicanism of, ref1
teetotalism of, ref1
Bradlaugh, Susannah, ref1
Bradman, Don, ref1
Braudel, Fernand, ref1
Brawne, Fanny, ref1
Bray, Tony, ref1
Brecht, Bertolt, ref1
Brian de Breffny, Baron, ref1
Brief Lives (Aubrey), ref1, ref2
Briggs, Julia, ref1
passim
Bright, John, ref1
Bristol Channel Yacht Club, ref1
Britain and the Beast (William-Ellis, ed.), ref1
The British Character (Pont), ref1
Britons (Colley), ref1
Brittan, Leon, ref1
Brock, Eleanor, ref1, ref2, ref3
Brock, Michael, ref1, ref2, ref3
Brogan, Hugh, ref1
Brontë, Emily, ref1
Brooke, Rupert, ref1
Brown, Charles, ref1, ref2
Brown, Craig, ref1
Brown, David, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Brown, Gordon, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Browning, Robert, ref1
Bruce Lockhart, Robert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Brusiloff, Vladimir, ref1
Bryant, Sir Arthur, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bryce, James, ref1
Brzezinski, Zbig, ref1
Buchan, Alastair, ref1
Buchan, John, ref1, ref2
Buck, Pearl, ref1
Burdett-Coutts, Miss, ref1, ref2, ref3
Burn, W. L., ref1
Burne-Jones, Margaret, ref1
Burns, Bishop Francis, ref1
Burns, Terry, ref1
Burton, Neil, ref1, ref2, ref3
Burton, Richard, ref1
Bush, George W., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Butler, John, ref1, ref2, ref3
Butler, R. A. ‘Rab’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Butterfield, Herbert, ref1
Buxton, Edward North, ref1
Byron, Lord, ref1, ref2
Cable, Vincent, ref1
Callaghan, James, ref1
Callwell, Gen., ref1
Camberg, Barney, ref1
Camberg, Cissy, ref1
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, ref1, ref2
Campbell, John, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
‘Campo Santo’ (Sebald), ref1, ref2
Canetti, Elias, ref1 (see also individual works)
‘Diaries’ of, ref1
England arrival of, ref1
generalizing habit of, ref1
‘God-Monster of Hampstead’, ref1
Nobel Prize won by, ref1, ref2
Canetti, Veza, ref1
Caracciolo, Francesco, ref1
Carden, Adm., ref1
Carlyle, Thomas, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Carr, John, ref1
Carrington, Lord, ref1
Carroll, Lewis, ref1
The Case of Walter Bagehot (Sisson), ref1
Castle, Barbara, ref1, ref2, ref3
The Castles on the Ground (Richards), ref1
Castro, Fidel, ref1
Catastrophe (Hastings), ref1
Catterall, Peter, ref1, ref2
Caute, David, ref1, ref2
Cavendish-Bentinck, Bill, ref1
Cavendish, Lady Elizabeth, ref1
Chamberlain, Austen, ref1, ref2
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, ref1
Chamberlain, Joe, ref1
Chambers, Roland, ref1, ref2
‘The Character of Sir Robert Peel’ (Bagehot), ref1
Charles I, beheading of, ref1, ref2
Charles II, ref1
Chartres, Bishop Richard, ref1, ref2
Chatwin, Bruce, ref1
Chaucer, Geoffrey, ref1
Chesterton, A. K., ref1
Chesterton, G. K., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Chirac, Jacques, ref1
Chou En-lai, ref1
Christabel (Coleridge), ref1
Church Principles Considered in Their Results (Gladstone), ref1
Churchill, Lord Randolph, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Churchill, Winston, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11 (see also individual works)
Jenkins’s biography of, ref1
and Macmillan, ref1
and WW1, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
The City Gardener (Fairchild), ref1
Clare, John, ref1, ref2
Clark, Christopher, ref1, ref2, ref3
Clark, Jonathan, ref1
Clarke, Kenneth, ref1
Cobbett, William, ref1, ref2
The Code of the Woosters (Wodehouse), ref1
Coleridge, The Damaged Archangel (Fruman), ref1
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, ref1, ref2 (see also individual works)
drug addiction of, ref1
literary appetites of, ref1
military discharge of, ref1
and religion, ref1
Coleridge, Sara, ref1
Collected Poems (Hardy), ref1
Colley, Linda, ref1
Collingwood, R. G., ref1
Collis, John Stewart, ref1, ref2
Colonel Sun (Amis), ref1
The Comforters (Spark), ref1
The Confidential Clerk (Eliot), ref1
Conquest, Robert, ref1
Conrad, Joseph, ref1
The Constant Gardener (le Carré), ref1
Cooke, Alistair, ref1
Cooper, Duff, ref1, ref2
Coot Club (Ransome), ref1
Courtauld, Simon, ref1, ref2, ref3
Coventry, Sir William, ref1
Cowgill, Anthony, ref1
Cowper, Emily, ref1
Cox, Harvey, ref1
Cradock, Sir Percy, ref1
Crawford, Jack, ref1, ref2, ref3
Creighton, Anthony, ref1
Crewe, Lord, ref1
Crickhowell, Lord, ref1
Cripps, Fred, ref1
Cripps, Sir Stafford, ref1
The Crisis in Russia (Ransome), ref1
Cromwell, Oliver, ref1, ref2
Crook, Prof. Joseph Mordaunt, ref1
Crosland, Anthony, ref1, ref2
Crossman, Richard, ref1, ref2, ref3
diaries of, ref1
Crowds and Power (Canetti), ref1, ref2
Crowley, Aleister, ref1, ref2
Cruickshank, Dan, ref1, ref2
Crum, John, ref1
Cullen, Muriel, ref1, ref2
Cullen, Willie, ref1
Curriculum Vitae (Spark), ref1
Curzon, Grace, ref1
Curzon, Lord, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Curzon, Mary, ref1
Cuthbertson, Guy, ref1, ref2
Damn You, England (Osborne), ref1
Dangerfield, George, ref1
The Darkest Days (Newton), ref1
Darwin, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Davenport-Hines, Richard, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
David Copperfield (Dickens), ref1, ref2
Davis, Bette, ref1
Dawkins, Prof. Richard, ref1, ref2
Dawkins, Sir William Boyd, ref1
Day-Lewis, Cecil, ref1
de Courcy, Anne, ref1, ref2
de Gaulle, Charles, ref1
de Klerk, F. W., ref1
de Robeck, Adm., ref1
Defence of Philosophic Doubt (Balfour), ref1
Defoe, Daniel, ref1
Delany, Paul, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Dettori, Frankie, ref1
Devonshire, Duke of, ref1
Diana, Princess of Wales, ref1, ref2
funeral of, ref1
Dickens, Catherine, ref1
Dickens, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7 (see also individual works)
and Americans, ref1
in blacking factory,
ref1, ref2
oddity pursued by, ref1
and penal systems, ref1
and political activity, ref1
racist, selfish, money-grubbing, ref1
and religion, ref1
wife’s separation from, ref1
Dickens, John, ref1
Dietrich, Marlene, ref1, ref2
Dilhorne, Lord, ref1, ref2
Dilke, Charles, ref1
Disraeli, Benjamin, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Dombey and Son (Dickens), ref1, ref2
Dorril, Stephen, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Douglas, Lord Alfred, ref1, ref2
Machen’s obituary of, ref1
Douglas, Maj. C. H., ref1
Douglas-Home, Alec, ref1, ref2
Downe, Viscountess, ref1
Downing, Sir George, ref1
Dugdale, Sir William, ref1
Dulles, John Foster, ref1
Duncan-Jones, Katherine, ref1
Duranty, Walter, ref1
Durrell, Lawrence, ref1
Duveen, Joseph, ref1
Dzerzhinsky, Feliks, ref1
Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Bede), ref1
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Keynes), ref1, ref2
Economist, Bagehot at, see Bagehot, Walter
Eden, Anthony, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Edward VII, ref1, ref2
Edward VIII, see Windsor, Duke of
Egremont, Max, ref1
Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight ‘Ike’, ref1, ref2, ref3
Elcho, Mary, ref1, ref2
Eliot, George, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Eliot, T. S., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
‘miserable creature’, ref1
Elizabeth II, ref1
Elizabethan Architecture (Girouard), ref1
Elton, G. R., ref1, ref2
The Emigrants (Sebald), ref1, ref2
Ending Up (Amis), ref1, ref2
Endymion (Keats), ref1, ref2
England and the Octopus (William-Ellis), ref1
English Civil War, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
The English Constitution (Bagehot), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
The Entertainer (Osborne), ref1
Etzioni, Amitai, ref1
‘An Evening’s Entertainment’ (James, M. R.), ref1
Eyre, Peter, ref1
Fairchild, Thomas, ref1
‘False Dawn’ (Kipling), ref1
Far Off Things (Machen), ref1
Faringdon, Lord, ref1
Fascism, see Mosley, Oswald
Fearon, George, ref1
Federer, Roger, ref1
The Female Eunuch (Greer), ref1, ref2
Fenton, James, ref1
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