Family Britain, 1951-1957 (121 page)

  3.
New Yorker
, 25 Jun 1955; Roberts,
Eminent Churchillians
, p 276; George H. Gallup (ed),
The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls: Great Britain, 1937–1975, Volume One
(New York, 1976), p 351;
News Chronicle
, 6 Sep 1955.

  4. Mark Pottle (ed),
Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946–1969
(2000), pp 149–50; BBC WA,
Any Questions?
, 3 Jun 1955; Pottle (ed),
Daring
, p 150; John Osborne,
A Better Class of Person
(1981), pp 264–6.

  5. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/summits, speech by Klaus Hansch, 29 Mar 1996; Keith Middlemas,
Power, Competition and the State, Volume I
(Basingstoke, 1986), p 253; Andy Mullin and Brian Burkitt, ‘Spinning Europe: Pro-European Union Propaganda Campaigns in Britain, 1962–1975’,
Political Quarterly
(Jan–Mar 1995), p 102; Rogan Taylor and Andrew Ward,
Kicking and Screaming
(1995), p 129.

  6. Tom Bower,
Maxwell
(1988), pp 54, 73;
Evening Standard
, 15 Jun 1955;
Daily Mail
, 6 Dec 2000 (Ian Wooldridge); Paul Bailey,
An Immaculate Mistake
(Penguin edn, 2004), pp 144–7, 162; Humphrey Carpenter,
Dennis Potter
(1998), pp 52–3.

  7.
Daily Mail
, 21–2 Jun 1955;
Evening Standard
, 30 Jun 1955; Jacqueline Wilson,
Jacky Daydream
(Corgi Yearling edn, 2008), p 175. In general on the Ellis case, see Robert Hancock,
Ruth Ellis
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson edn, 1985);
The Times
, 15 Mar 2002 (Carol Midgley);
Guardian
, 12 Sep 2003 (Clare Dyer).

  8.
Stowmarket Mercury
, 8 Jul 1955;
Coventry Standard
, 15 Jul 1955; Phil Hubbard et al, ‘Contesting the Modern City: Reconstruction and Everyday Life in Post-war Coventry’,
Planning Perspectives
(Oct 2003), pp 391–2, 397;
Manchester Guardian
, 14 Oct 1955;
Coventry Evening Telegraph
, 5 Oct 1955.

  9.
Daily Mirror
, 9 Jul 1955;
Hackney Gazette
, 9 Sep 1955;
Radio Times
, 1 Jul 1955, 4 Jan 1957;
Listener
, 14 Jul 1955;
Spectator
, 29 Jul 1955; BBC WA, R9/19/2, Aug–Sep 1955; Peter Cotes, ‘Lord Willis’,
Independent
, 24 Dec 1992. In general, see Susan Sydney-Smith,
Beyond Dixon of Dock Green
, pp 103–17.

10. Turtle, 10 Jul 1955;
Daily Mirror
, 11 Jul 1955; Langford, 11–12 Jul 1955; Heap, 12 Jul 1955; Martin, 12 Jul 1955; Raynham, 12 Jul 1955.

8 It’s Terribly Sad

  1.
Daily Mirror
, 16 Jul 1955;
News Chronicle
, 15 Jul 1955;
Daily Mirror
, 16 July 1955;
Spectator
, 22 Jul 1955.

  2.
Times Literary Supplement
, 15 Jul 1955; E. P. Thompson,
William Morris
(Merlin Press edn, 1977), p 769; John Drummond,
Tainted by Experience
(2000), p 71; David Cannadine, ‘The Way We Lived Then’,
Times Literary Supplement
, 7 Sep 1990; Drummond,
Tainted
, pp 71–2. For insightful obituaries of Elton and Thompson, see
Independent
, 9 Dec 1994 (Patrick Collinson), 30 Aug 1993 (E. J. Hobsbawm),
Guardian
, 30 Aug 1993 (W. L. Webb). For nuanced historiographical readings, see also Miles Taylor, ‘The Beginnings of Modern British Social History’,
History Workshop
(Spring 1997), pp 155–76; Jim Obelkevich, ‘New Developments in History in the 1950s and 1960s’,
Contemporary British History
(Winter 2000), pp 125–42.

  3.
Independent
, 6 Jul 2007 (Brian Viner);
The Times
, 19 Jul 1955, 23 Jul 1955; Anthony Sutcliffe and Roger Smith,
Birmingham, 1939–1970
(1974), pp 403–4; Anthony Thwaite (ed),
Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985
(1992), p 248; Martin, 29 Jul 1955; Haines, 29 Jul 1955;
Liverpool Echo
, 30 Jul 1955; Martin, 31 Jul 1955; Haines, 1 Aug 1955.

  4. Peter Hall, ‘Godotmania’,
Guardian
, 4 Jan 2003;
Sunday Times
, 7 Aug 1955 (Harold Hobson); James Knowlson,
Damned to Fame
(1996), p 415;
Financial Times
, 4 Aug 1955; Knowlson,
Damned
, p 415; Alan Jenkins,
Stephen Potter
(1980), pp 188–9.

  5. James Morton and Gerry Parker,
Gangland Bosses
(2004), p 211;
News Chronicle
, 24 Sep 1955; John Gross,
A Double Threat
(2001), p 122;
Sunday Express
, 16 Oct 1955; Dick Hobbs, ‘Reg Kray’,
Independent
, 2 Oct 2000; Langford, 16 Jul 1955.

  6. For evidence of the date of Larkin’s journey, see Thwaite (ed),
Selected Letters
, p 301, where Larkin specifically recalls in 1959 that it was in August 1955. What we know about his movements that month strongly suggests that it was Saturday the 13th. As for Whit Saturday that year, it was on the eve of a national railway strike, and it is temperamentally unlikely that Larkin would have taken the risk, not knowing how he was going to get back.

  7. Thwaite (ed),
Selected Letters
, p 249;
New Statesman
, 20 Aug 1955; Amis, p 452; ‘Norris McWhirter’,
The Times
, 21 Apr 2004.

  8. Thwaite (ed),
Selected Letters
, p 250; Garry Whannel, ‘“Grandstand”, the Sports Fan and the Family Audience’, in John Corner (ed),
Popular Television in Britain
(1991), pp 186–7;
Independent
, 5 Oct 2000 (David Conn);
Southend Standard
, 18 Aug 1955, 25 Aug 1955; Peter Acton and Colin M. Jarman (eds),
Roy of the Rovers
(Harpenden, 1994), pp 13–15.

  9. Fowles, EUL MS 102/1/8, fol 234, 20–27 Aug 1955; Janet Street-Porter,
Baggage
(2004), p 79; Christopher Sandford,
Mick Jagger
(Cooper Square Press edn, 1999), p 24; Lucy O’Brien,
Dusty
(1989), p xi.

10.
Hackney Gazette
, 7 Sep 1955, 5 Sep 1955;
Coventry Evening Telegraph
, 13 Oct 1955; Douglas Hill (ed),
Tribune 40
(1977), p 106;
Chorley Guardian and Leyland Advertiser
, 3 Jun 1955;
South London Press
, 7 Oct 1955;
News Chronicle
, 14–16 Sep 1955; Haines, 21 Sep 1955.

11.
Express and Star
(Wolverhampton), 1 Sep 1955, 6 Sep 1955, 10 Sep 1955;
Guardian
, 22 Jul 2006.

12.
New Statesman
, 6 Aug 1955; Spencer Leigh, ‘Ralph Edwards’,
Independent
, 21 Nov 2005;
Radio Times
, 22 Jul 1955; Dennis Barker, ‘Johnny Downes’,
Guardian
, 25 Jan 2005;
Radio Times
, 9 Sep 1955; Hilary Kingsley and Geoff Tibballs,
Box of Delights
(1989), p 50; Asa Briggs,
Sound and Vision
(Oxford, 1995), p 904.

13.
Picture Post
, 24 Sep 1955; BBC WA, R9/35/4, 22 Sep 1955; William Smethurst,
The Archers
(1996), pp 56–61;
News Chronicle
, 23 Sep 1955;
Manchester Guardian
, 26 Sep 1955; Briggs,
Sound
, p 923.

14.
TV Times
, 20 Sep 1955; Meryle Secrest,
Kenneth Clark
(1984), p 201; Philip Purser, ‘Muriel Young’,
Guardian
, 29 Mar 2001;
TV Times
, 20 Sep 1955;
Punch
, 27 Sep 1955; Mark Robinson,
100 Greatest TV Ads
(2000), p 16;
Manchester Guardian
, 23 Sep 1955;
News Chronicle
, 23 Sep 1955.

15. Jeff Evans,
The Penguin TV Companion
(2006), pp 254, 423; Tom Vallance, ‘Bernadette O’Farrell’,
Independent
, 26 Oct 1999; Evans,
Penguin
TV
, p 804; Bernard Sendall,
Independent Television in Britain: Volume I
(1982), pp 320–21;
Punch
, 5 Oct 1955; Denis Gifford, ‘Hughie Green’,
Independent
, 5 May 1997; BBC Four, ‘Double Your Money’, 27 Mar 2005.

16.
News Chronicle
, 26 Sep 1955; Francis Wheen,
Television
(1985), pp 71–2; Leonard Miall, ‘Sir Robin Day’,
Independent
, 8 Aug 2000; Robin Day,
Grand Inquisitor
(1989), p 79. In general on
Sunday Night at the London Palladium
, see
Picture Post
, 26 Nov 1955; Sendall,
Independent Television
, p 322; http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/londonpalladium.htm.

17.
Punch
, 5 Oct 1955;
Spectator
, 30 Sep 1955;
Picture Post
, 10 Dec 1955; Sendall,
Independent Television
, p 321;
News Chronicle
, 6 Oct 1955; ITC records (BFI), 3995707 (barcode number), 3001/4 (file number); M-O A, Directive Replies, Nov 1955, Men, A–G file, Women, G–L, A–F files.

18.
Spectator
, 23 Sep 1955, 7 Oct 1955, 30 Sep 1955; James E. Cronin, ‘Power, Secrecy and the British Constitution: Vetting Samuel Beer’s
Treasury Control
’,
Twentieth Century British History
3/1 (1992), pp 59–75; Nancy Mitford, ‘The English Aristocracy’, in E. Hamilton (ed),
The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Essays
(1999), pp 322–3;
New Yorker
, 8 Oct 1955 (Panter-Downes); Evelyn Waugh, ‘An Open Letter to the Honble Mrs. Peter Rodd (Nancy Mitford) on a Very Serious Subject’, in Alan S. C. Ross et al,
Noblesse Oblige
(1956), p 65.

19.
Picture Post
, 19 Nov 1955; Martin, 18 Oct 1955;
Evening Standard
, 19 May 1955;
Daily Mail
, 17 May 1955;
News Chronicle
, 17 May 1955;
Daily Mirror
, 20 May 1955;
Punch
, 1 Jun 1955; John Ramsden,
The Dam Busters
(2003), p 67; John Ramsden, ‘Refocusing “The People’s War”: British War Films of the 1950s’,
Journal of Contemporary History
(Jan 1998), pp 62–3; Peter Hennessy, ‘Modern History in the Making’,
Director
(Sep 1992), p 27; Richard Eyre, ‘My Voilà Moment’,
Guardian
, 12 Apr 2003; Robin Blake, ‘Aeronautical but Nice’,
Financial Times
, 4 Nov 2006;
Rover
, 29 Oct 1955.

20. Heap, 19 Oct 1955; Geoffrey Wansell,
Terence Rattigan
(1995), p 265; Hall, ‘Godotmania’;
New Statesman
, 15 Oct 1955;
Fowles
, p 365; Joan Bakewell,
The Centre of the Bed
(2003), p 119; Hall, ‘Godotmania’.

21. David Kynaston,
The City of London, Volume IV
(2001), pp 68–71;
New Yorker
, 5 Nov 1955; Philip M. Williams,
Hugh Gaitskell
(1979), p 360; Brian Brivati,
Hugh Gaitskell
(1996), p 222; E.H.H. Green,
Ideologies of Conservatism
(Oxford, 2002), p 193;
Birmingham Mail
, 23 Aug 1955; Gerald Frost,
Antony Fisher
(2002), p 62.

22.
Daily Mirror
, 19 Aug 1955; Macmillan, p 464; M-O A, D5353, 13 Oct 1955;
Daily Mirror
, 14 Oct 1955;
News Chronicle
, 14 Oct 1955;
Manchester Guardian
, 15 Oct 1955; Elizabeth Longford,
Elizabeth R
(1983), p 176;
Daily Mirror
, 17 Oct 1955.

23. D. R. Thorpe,
Eden
(2003), p 448; M-O A, D5353, 19 Oct 1955;
Daily Mirror
, 19 Oct 1955; Ben Pimlott,
The Queen
(1996), p 236;
New Statesman
, 22 Oct 1955; Richard Ingrams,
Muggeridge
(1995), p 182;
Daily Mirror
, 21 Oct 1955; Pimlott,
Queen
, p 236; Helen Cathcart,
Princess Margaret
(1974), p 124; Martin, 21 Oct 1955; Janie Hampton (ed),
Joyce & Ginnie
(1997), p 203; Willi Frischauer,
Margaret
(1977), p 107; Turtle, 23 Oct 1955.

24.
The Times
, 26 Oct 1955; Pimlott,
Queen
, pp 238, 596; Cathcart,
Princess Margaret
, pp 124–5; Nick Clarke,
The Shadow of a Nation
(2003), p 65;
Daily Mirror
, 28 Oct 1955; Hampton (ed),
Joyce & Ginnie
, p 204; BBC WA,
Any Questions?
, 28 Oct 1955;
Sunday Express
, 30 Oct 1955;
Daily Express
, 31 Oct 1955; George H. Gallup (ed),
The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls: Great Britain, 1937–1975, Volume One
(New York, 1976), p 357.

25. Tim Heald,
Princess Margaret
(2007), p 104; Hill, 31 Oct 1955; Turtle, 31 Oct 1955; Mark Pottle (ed),
Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946–1969
(2000), p 158; Langford, 31 Oct 1955; Nigel Nicolson (ed), Harold Nicolson,
Diaries and Letters, Volume III
,
(1968
)
, p 290; Martin, 31 Oct 1955; Clarke,
Shadow
, p 65; M-O A, D5353, 31 Oct 1955; Hill, 1 Nov 1955.

26.
Daily Mail
, 1 Nov 1955;
Manchester Guardian
, 1 Nov 1955; M-O A, TC 69/11/B, 1 Nov 1955; Preston, 1 Nov 1955; Heap, 1 Nov 1955; Haines, 1 Nov 1955; Hill, 1–2 Nov 1955.

27.
Daily Mirror
, 2 Nov 1955;
Daily Express
, 3 Nov 1955;
People
, 6 Nov 1955;
Daily Express
, 3 Nov 1955; M-O A, TC 69/11/B, 3 Nov 1955; Gallup (ed),
Gallup
, p 359;
Daily Express
, 4 Nov 1955; BBC WA,
Any Questions?
, 4 Nov 1955.

28. M-O A, Directive Replies, Nov 1955, Men, A–G file, Women, A–F, G–L, M–Z files; Katherine Bucknell (ed), Christopher Isherwood,
Diaries: Volume One, 1939–1960
(1996), p 575.

9 Family Favourites

  1.
Guardian
, 13 Nov 1999;
The Times
, 9 Sep 2000;
Guardian
, 30 Oct 2004;
Daily Mail
, 29 Apr 1988;
Independent on Sunday
, 28 Feb 1993;
BBC News Magazine
(online), May 2007, ‘Was Britain Better in the 50s?’; Martin, 22 Feb 1954; Shirley Collins,
America Over the Water
(2005), p 176.