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In Which We Serve (Noel Coward film), 174†
In Your Garden (radio programme), 154
Income Tax Act (1918), 282
India, 210–11
Industrial Design Partnership, 24*
Institute of Archaeology, 221, 240
Institute of Architects, 157
Institute of Contemporary Arts, 108
Institute of Landscape Design, 157, 159
The Iron Petticoat (Betty Box/Ralph Thomas film), 209, 209–10
Irving, Henry, 178
Irwin, Zita, 76
Isokon, 243
Italy, 8†, 23, 24, 33, 51–2, 78, 208, 210; Patience Gray and, 7, 19, 27, 32, 34, 39–44
Jackson, William, 286–7
Jacob, Naomi ‘Mickie’, 51–2, 52*
Jacobs, David (lawyer), 86–7
Jamaica, 65
James, Henry, 20*
James Bond films, xxii *, 209–10
Japan, 125, 246, 248
Jekyll, Gertrude, 152, 155
Jellicoe, Geoffrey, 159
Jencks, Charles, 257
Jenkins, Elizabeth, The Tortoise and the Hare, 13*, 310
Jenkins, Ronald, 105*, 297
Jews, 9, 12*, 15, 68, 71, 272, 289
John, Augustus, 221*
Johns, Glynis, xiv, 174, 200
Johnson, Celia, xiv, 223
Johnson, Donald, 280
Johnson, Philip, 105–6
Johnston, Lawrence, 155
Jones, Julia, The Adventures of Margery Allingham, 89*
journalism, xxi–xxii, xxiii, xxiv–xxv, xxxv, xxxvi, 60*, 65; of Margery Fish, 154–5, 162, 164; of Patience Gray, 17–18, 29–32, 35, 37*; of Jacquetta Hawkes, 250; of Nancy Spain, 47–8, 53, 55–6, 57–8, 60, 65, 70, 83–4
Keeler, Christine, 83
Kelly, George, 280–1, 281*
Kelly, Grace, 303
Kendall, Kay, 175, 201
Kentish Times, 185
Kingston School of Art, 21†
Kissing Tree House, Alveston, 252, 254
‘Kitchen Sink School’ of art, 32*
kitchens: cooking equipment, 26, 27, 51*; of Patience Gray, 24, 40, 41; new appliances and surfaces, xxxiii, 5, 26, 51*, 115; of the Smithsons, 93–4, 111
Knowles, Sylvia, 213–15
Knowsley Hall, 284
Kynaston, David, Family Britain, xiv
Lamert, Peggy, 236
Lancaster, Osbert, 235
Lane, Allen, 243
Lane, Elizabeth, 294–5, 294‡
Lang, Matheson, 178
Lansbury Estate, Poplar, 106*
Larkin, Henry, 277
Laski, Marghanita, 24; To Bed with Grand Music, xvii*, xxxv
Laurie, Dick, 61–2, 86–7
Laurie, Joan Werner, 45, 67, 83; background of, 59–60; character of, 59, 82, 88; death in plane crash (1964), 85–7, 86*; has abdominal surgery, 65; relationship with Nancy Spain, 57–9, 60–4, 65, 66–7, 70, 81–3, 84–5; SHE magazine and, 65, 74*, 83; Sheila van Damm and, 81–3, 82, 84–5; in WRNS during war, 59
Laurie, T. Werner, 57–8
Le Corbusier, 96‡, 99, 106, 107, 108*, 126, 127*, 158
Le Mans road race, 79–80
le Thière, Mademoiselle, 178
Leach, Bernard, A Potter’s Book, 6
Lee, Laurie, 243–4
Legal & General offices, City of London, 219
Lehmann, Rosamond, The Echoing Grove, 309
Leigh, Vivien, 69
Leighton, Margaret, 174
Lejeune, C. A., 30, 175
Les Baux, Provence, 114
lesbianism, xv, 50, 51–2; Jacquetta Hawkes’ sexuality, 234–5, 235*, 253; of Nancy Spain, 50, 53–4, 58–9, 61, 64*, 67–8, 83; in Spain’s detective novels, 56*; of Sheila van Damm, 76
Levegh, Pierre, 79–80
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell-Pressburger film), 184*
Life magazine, xxxvi
Lindsay, Nancy, 161
Lindsay, Norah, 160–1
literature, xxv–xxvi, xxvii–xxviii, xxxvi, 112, 145, 303–4, 309–11; see also theatre
Liverpool, 159, 272–3, 276, 277, 280, 282, 286*
Liverpool Post, 285, 295
Liverpool University, 274
Lloyd, Christopher, 165
Lloyd George, David, 52*, 139
the Logs, Hampstead, 23–5, 25, 37–8
Lom, Herbert, 191
London: architecture, 93*, 113*, 123–5, 126–8, 128*; the Blitz, 18, 19, 48–9, 73, 74, 188–9, 219, 235, 236; Golden Lane in the City, 109, 126, 127; the Hawkes’ homes in, 231, 233, 234, 235–6, 243; the Hollands’ Queen Anne Street home, 13–14; Irving Davis’s Brunswick Square flat, 32–3; the Logs, Hampstead, 23–5, 25, 37–8; Margery and Walter Fish in, 143, 144, 145–6, 147; Margery Fish’s childhood in, 136; Metropolitan Police, 199–201, 201*; Muriel Box commutes to, 182, 184; Muriel Box’s homes in, 184, 185–6, 186, 188, 196–7, 213; Nancy and Joan’s homes in, 58–9, 61–2, 65, 67, 70, 84–5, 86; post-war ruins and rubble, xv, 56, 100–1, 112, 219; Priestley’s flat in Piccadilly, 240; Robin Hood Gardens, 126–8, 128*; Roman Temple of Mithras, 219–20, 219*, 220; Rose and Nat’s Gray’s Inn Square flat, 297; Savile Row, 302; the Smithsons’ homes in, 95–6, 100–1; smog, 112; swinging, 213; V weapon raids, 49, 191, 236; Windmill Theatre, Soho, 70, 71, 72–5, 74*, 77, 80, 83, 84, 89–90; women in Nineteen fifty-six, xxxiii, xxxiv–xxxv, xxxvi
London Evening Star, 72
London Independent Producers, 198–201
London Review of Books, 42
London University, xxiii*, xxxvi, 16, 221
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson film), 213
Look Back in Anger (John Osborne play), 112, 230*
Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson film), 213
The Lost People (Muriel Box film), 176, 197–8
Lubbock, Percy, 34–5
Lubetkin, Berthold, 99*
Lucas, E.V., The Open Road, 181
Luder, Owen, 128
Lupino, Ida, 210†
Lusitania, sinking of, 140*
Lycra, 303
Lynn, Jack, 109*
Lynskey, George, 282
Ridealgh, Mabel, xix†
Macaulay, Rose, The Towers of Trebizond, 310
Macfarlane, Robert, 256
Mackenzie, Compton, 64
Maiden Castle, Dorset, 221
The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk (Herbert Wilcox film), 291
Manners, Lady Diana, 180
Manning, Olivia, School for Love, 309
Mansfield, Katherine, 15
Marceau, Marcel, 31
Margaret Barnes School of Dancing, Surbiton, 180
Marie of Romania, funeral of, 17–18
Marimekko, 111
Marlowe, Tommy, 138, 142
marriage, xiv, xv, 13*, 44, 206; 1950s anxiety over, 172–3; extra-marital affairs, xv–xvi, xvii–xviii, 18, 177, 205–6, 213–14, 236–43, 238*, 245–8; ‘lavender’, 84; Nineteen forty-seven as great year, xviii; phoney second ‘marriages’, 172; the Smithsons and, 110–11, 122; working wives, 289*
Marrinan, Patrick, 289–90
Marry Me (Betty Box/Terence Fisher film), 195
Martin, Leslie, 122*
Mary, Queen, 72*, 193*
Marylebone police station, 200
Mason, James, 176, 191, 193
Mass Observation, xiii
Maud, Sir John, 237
Maugham, Somerset, 196*, 200
Maurice, Frederick Denison, 14
McBean, Angus, 61
McCartney, Paul, 85
Meades, Jonathan, 107*
Metropolitan Police, 199–201, 201*
Mexico, 237, 238–40, 241, 242
Michie, James, xxii
Midgley, John, 14*
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 95–6, 96*, 105–6, 105*, 148
Millar, Maud, 198
Mille Miglia in Italy, 78–9
Milne, A. A., 55
Ministry of Information, 145, 238
; films, 190
Minton, John, 7, 26*
Miranda (Betty Box/Ken Annakin film), 195, 204
Mitchen Hall, Surrey, 8–9
Mitford, Unity, 14†
Mithras, Temple of (City of London), 219–20, 219*, 220
modernism, xi, 256; in architecture, 32, 96, 99, 99*, 102–8, 112–21, 113*, 123–8, 158–9
Mommens, Norman, 37–41, 38, 43–4
Mommens, Ursula, 37
Monroe, Marilyn, 303
Montacute House, Somerset, 148
Monte Carlo Rally, 77, 78, 80–1
Moore, Henry, xiii–xiv, 31, 117, 160, 222, 243
More, Kenneth, 75*, 206*, 208, 210, 210*
Morrell, Ottoline, 236
mortgages, xiv
Mortimer, John, xx, xxviii*, 64*
Mortimer, Penelope, xx–xxi, xx, xxviii*; About Time Too, 64*; Daddy’s Gone A Hunting, xxvii–xxviii; The Pumpkin Eater, xxviii
Moss, Sterling, 78, 79, 80
Mote End, Mill Hill, 196–7
motherhood see homemaking and motherhood
Motley, 230, 230*
Mount Carmel, Palestine, 228, 228*, 229
Moya, Hidalgo, 159
Muir, Frank, 83†
Murdoch, Iris, 252, 307; The Bell, 310
Murray, William Staite, 37†
Murtagh, Dennis, 286–7
Museum of London, 219
My Word! (BBC radio show), 60*
Nairn, Ian, 160*
Nares, Owen, 178
Nash, Paul, 256*
National Trust, 155, 167, 256–7
Naxos, 38–9, 41
Neagle, Anna, 291
Neary, Anna, 282
Nelson, Edmund, 78
neo-Romanticism, 256
Nervi, Pier Luigi, 32
Neurath, Walter, 20
New Look, Christian Dior, xix, xix†, 302
New Towns, 98, 99*, 113, 158–60, 159, 160*
New Wave cinema, 213
Newcastle Journal, 53
Newcastle upon Tyne, 50, 53–4, 98–9, 112
Newman, Nelly, 88
Newnham College, Cambridge, 227, 227*
News Chronicle, 116
News of the World, 83–4, 85, 86, 282
Nichols, Dandy, 198
Nicholson, Virginia, Millions Like Us, xxi
Nicolson, Harold, 223, 244*
Nicolson, Nigel, 244*
Nineteen fifty-six as pivotal year, xxxii–xxxvi, 112–22
Niven, David, 210†
No Love for Johnnie (Betty Box/Ralph Thomas film), 208
Noma, Copenhagen, 42
Nonsuch Palace, Surrey, 220
Norden, Denis, 83†
Norfolk, Margaret, 221*
Normanton, Helena, 268, 268*, 269, 276, 279
Northam, James, 280
Northcliffe, Lord, Alfred Harmsworth, 138–41, 142, 142*
Northumberlandia (land art), 257
Norwood Hall Institute and College of Horticulture, 156
nylon, xvii, 115, 116, 303
Observer, 29–32, 35, 37*, 131, 175, 223, 250
The Old Man in the Corner ( Hugh Croise film), 180
Old Vic theatre, 187
olive oil, 25, 29*, 111
Olivier, Laurence, 69
On Approval (Sydney Box/Clive Brook film), 190
opera, 31, 162*
Orioli, Giuseppe, 33
Orloff, Count, 231
Osborne, John, xxvi, xxviii, 230*; The Entertainer, xxii; Look Back in Anger, 112
O’Toole, Kathleen, 233
Owen, Louise, 139
Oxford University, 236, 243
Pankhurst, Christabel, 292–3
Pankhurst, Emmeline, 200
Panter-Downes, Mollie, One Fine Day, xviii
Paolozzi, Eduardo, 117, 118
Paris, 23, 32, 60*, 68, 70*, 238, 246
Park Hill, Sheffield, 109*, 128
Parmigiani’s, Old Compton Street, 25
The Passionate Stranger (Muriel Box film), 200
Pavlow, Muriel, 175–6, 201
Penguin, 243
Percy’s Progress (Betty Box/Ralph Thomas film), 213
Perry, Frances, 156, 156*
Perse School for Girls, 226
Peterlee, 99*
Petrini, Carlo, 42
Pevsner, Nikolaus, 23, 102, 104*
Philips, Leslie, 206, 208
Phipps, Nicholas, 207, 210
photography, 9, 12, 14*, 30
Picture Post, xiii–xiv, xxi
Picture Show (magazine), 179
Pidgeon, Monica, 100*
Pierrepoint, Albert, 281
Piltdown Man hoax, 220
Pinewood Studios, 197–8, 204, 210, 257
Pinney, Betty, 234–5, 236, 242, 253
Piper, John, 36, 109*
The Piper’s Tune (Muriel Box film), 212
Pirbright, Peter, Off the Beeton Track, 27
Pitman’s College, 182
Plowright, Joan, xxii
Polemonium ‘Lambrook Mauve’, 165
polyester, 115, 303
Polytechnic cinema, Piccadilly, 71–2
pop art, 116, 118
Popular Gardening, 155
Portmeirion, 157
Portsmouth, 189*
Potter, Beatrix, 96–7
pottery and ceramics, 6, 37, 37†
Powell, Dilys, 175
Powell, Michael, 184, 184*
Powell, Philip, 159
Pressburger, Emeric, 184*
Preston, John, The Dig, 219*
Preston bus station, 128
Price, Dennis, 197
Priestley, J.B., 237–43, 238*, 244–7, 252, 253, 254; CND and, 251, 252; death of (1984), 255; letter to Christopher Hawkes, 246, 247–8; marries Jacquetta, 248–50, 249
Priestley, Rachel, 251*
Priestley, Tom, 251*, 253
A Prince for Cynthia (Muriel Box film), 200
Pritchard, Jack, 243
Prospect Books, 42
Punch, 134, 155
Pygmalion (Anthony Asquith film), 183*
Pym, Barbara, Some Tame Gazelle, 309
Quakers, Society of, 17
Quant, Mary, 21, 111, 111†
Quarry Hill estate, Leeds, 113*
Queen Mary (ship), 238
Queen’s College, Harley Street, 14–15
Quigly, Isabel, 175
radiocarbon dating, 220
rally and road race driving, 76–81
Rank, J. Arthur, 191, 193, 197, 204, 212
rape laws, 297
rationing, xv, 3–5, 6, 22–3, 34*
Rattigan, Terence, 112, 183*, 190
Rattle of a Simple Man (Muriel Box film), 212–13
Ravilious, Eric, 36, 36
Reach for the Sky (Lewis Gilbert film), 75*
Reard, Louis, 304
The Red Shoes (Powell-Pressburger film), 184*
Redzepi, Rene, 42
Regent’s Park Mosque, 159
Reiss, Phyllis, 148–9, 160
Richardson, Ann, 261–2, 264
Richardson, Charlie, 261–2, 264
Richardson, Grace, 261–2, 263–4, 265–6
Richardson, John, 261–2
Richardson, Ralph, 189, 251*
Richardson, Tim, English Gardens in the Twentieth Century, 154*
Richardson, Tony, xxii
Rickards, Jocelyn, xxii, xxv†, xxvi, xxxiii
Riverside Studios, 190
Road Safety for Children (Ministry of Information film), 190
Robertson, E. Arnot, 175
Robertson, Grace, xix, xxi–xxii, xxiii–xxiv, xxvii, xxxvi
Robin Hood Gardens, Poplar, 126–7, 128*; current state of, 127–8
Robinson, William, 148, 152
Roche’s, Old Compton Street, 25
Roedean school, Sussex, 50–1, 56*
Rogers, Joy, 205, 205, 206
Rogers, Peter, 171, 196, 204, 205, 205–6, 212, 215
Romania, 17–18
Rome, 23, 34
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Room at the Top (Jack Clayton film), 213
Rootes (car racing team), 77, 80
Roper, Lanning, 148, 150
Rose, Helen, 303
Rosenfield, Arnold, 286
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), xx, 51, 184–5
Royal Air Force (RAF), 21†, 75, 76
Royal College of Art, 21, 37†
Royal Court theatre, 112, 230*
Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), 155, 156*, 164
Ryder, Gordon, 99
Ryder & Yates partnership, 99*
Sabrina (Billy Wilder film), 303
Sackville-West, Vita, 30, 131, 153, 244
Sagan, Françoise, Bonjour Tristesse, 303–4
Saltzman, Harry, 209–10
Santonlina chamaecyparissus ‘Lambrook Silver’, 165
Sargeant, Winifred ‘Bin’, 53–4
Schmidt’s, Charlotte Street, 25
scientists, female, xxii–xxiii, xxiii*, xxxvi, 222, 223
Scott-James, Anne, xxiv, 29†, 60*, 301; In the Mink, xxiii, 60*, 305
sculpture, 31, 37, 38, 108, 125*, 160, 161, 257; Barbara Hepworth, 160, 250, 250*; Norman Mommens, 37, 38, 39, 43, 44; Henry Moore, xiii–xiv, 31, 117, 160, 222, 243
Secombe, Harry, 90
Second World War: affects on of civil society, 268; Blitz, 18, 19, 48–9, 73, 74, 219, 235, 236, 277; Muriel Box and, 188–91; cinema during, 188–92; Sylvia Crowe and, 156–7; dig for victory, 154, 154*; dress codes during, xvii, 302; employment and, xvii, xviii, 54–5, 74, 190, 236, 276–7; Walter Fish and, 145; gardening during, 154, 154*, 156–8; Patience Gray and, 7, 18–20; Jacquetta Hawkes and, 234, 235–6; Rose Heilbron and, 276–7; Occupied France, 68; Priestley’s broadcasts, 237, 237*; rationing during and after, xv, 3–5, 6, 22–3, 34*; relaxed moral codes during, xvii–xviii, xix; Smithson marriage and, 100–1; Peter Smithson serves in Burma, 99–100; South Shields and, 98, 114; V weapon raids, 49, 191, 236; women’s auxiliary services, xvii, 48–9, 54–5, 59, 75, 75*, 76, 157; wounded men, xix*
Seddon, George, 35
Sellers, Peter, 73*, 83†
Selznick, David O., 210
Sepia Fifties, xi
Settle, Alison, 30
The Seventh Veil (Sydney Box/Compton Bennett film), 176, 191–3, 192, 192*, 193*
sexuality, xvi; of Muriel Box, 177, 203; of Sydney Box, 214; contraception, xiv; era of the Fleet Street sex scandal, 83; in fashion world, 305; of Jacquetta Hawkes, 223–4, 234–5, 235*, 240–1, 242, 250, 253; homosexuality, 50, 64, 252; before the pill, xxvi–xxvii; during Second World War, xv–xvi, xix; of Alison Smithson, 122; workplace harassment, xxii–xxiii, xxiii*; see also lesbianism
Seyler, Nicholas Laurie (Nicky), 58, 59–60, 61, 62, 66, 67, 84*, 85–6, 87, 88
Seyler, Paul, 58, 59, 60, 62
Seyler, Thomas Bartholomew Laurie, 60–4, 66, 67, 86, 87–9
Shanks, F. W., 102
Shanks, Michael, 255–6
Shaw, George Bernard, 183*
SHE magazine, 47, 65, 68, 74*, 83