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by Juliet Nicolson


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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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