Family Britain, 1951-1957 (116 page)

  2. Doris Rich, ‘Spare Time in the Black Country’, in
Leo Kuper (ed),
Living in Towns
(1953), pp 358, 361; Mark W. Hodges and Cyril S. Smith, ‘The Sheffield Estate’, in University of Liverpool,
Neighbourhood and Community
(Liverpool, 1954), pp 92–3, 96, 98–9; J. M. Mogey,
Family and Neighbourhood
(1956), pp 112–13; Madeline Kerr,
The People of Ship Street
(1958), p 101; T. Cauter and J. S. Downham,
The Communication of Ideas
(1954), pp 62–7.

  3. Rich, ‘Spare Time’, p 361; Peter Townsend,
The Family Life of Old People
(Pelican edn, 1963), pp 146–7; Richard Hoggart,
The Uses of Literacy
(Pelican edn, 1958), p 60; Bill Lancaster, ‘Newcastle – Capital of What?’, in Robert Colls and Bill Lancaster (eds),
Geordies
(Edinburgh, 1992), pp 65–7; Hodges and Smith, ‘Sheffield Estate’, p 89; Alison Ravetz,
Model Estate
(1974), pp 137–8.

  4.
Bolton Journal
, 21 Jan 1949; Jeff Hill, ‘Rite of Spring: Cup Finals and Community in the North of England’, in Hill and Jack Williams (eds),
Sport and Identity in the North of England
(Keele, 1996), p 103; Norman Dennis et al,
Coal Is Our Life
(Tavistock edn, 1969), p 156; Hill, ‘Rite’, p 100; Adrian Smith, ‘An Oval Ball and a Broken City: Coventry, Its People and Its Rugby Team’,
International Journal of the History of Sport
(Dec 1994), pp 507–8. For two case studies of football and identity, see Gavin Mellor, ‘Post-war Lancastrian Football Heroes: Finney, Lofthouse and Douglas’,
North West Labour History
(1999–2000), pp 44–54; N. A. Phelps, ‘Professional Football and Local Identity in the “Golden Age”: Portsmouth in the Mid-twentieth Century’,
Urban History
(Dec 2005), pp 459–80. For a particularly rich evocation of a football club and its community, see also Andrew Ward and Ian Alister,
Barnsley: A Study in Football, 1953–59
(Barton-under-Needwood, 1981).

  5. Huw Richards, ‘Terry Davies’, in Richards et al (eds),
More Heart and Soul
(Cardiff, 1999), p 62; Rich, ‘Spare Time’, p 360; John Barron Mays,
Growing Up in the City
(Liverpool, 1954), p 49; Townsend,
Family Life
, p 145; Kerr,
People
, pp 23–4.

  6. Roy Porter,
London
(Penguin edn, 2000), p xiv; Alison Ravetz,
The Place of Home
(1995), p 205; Mark Clapson,
Invincible Green Suburbs, Brave New Towns
(Manchester, 1998), chap 3; Mogey,
Family
, p 74.

  7. Hoggart,
Uses
, p 86; Robert Roberts,
The Classic Slum
(Pelican edn, 1973), p 13; Jennifer Worth,
Call the Midwife
(2007), p 246; Jimmy Boyle,
A Sense of Freedom
(Pan edn, 1977), pp 8–9; Charles Johnstone, ‘The Tenants’ Movement and Housing Struggles in Glasgow, 1945–1990’, University of Glasgow PhD, 1991, p 91; Becky Taylor and Ben Rogaly, ‘“Mrs Fairly is a Dirty, Lazy Type”: Unsatisfactory Households and the Problem of Problem Families in Norwich 1942–1963’,
Twentieth Century British History
18/4 (2007), p 451.

  8. James H. Robb,
Working-Class Anti-Semite
(1954), p 49; Hodges and Smith, ‘Sheffield Estate’, pp 10-13; Kerr,
People
, p 116; Leo Kuper, ‘Blueprint for Living Together’, in Kuper (ed),
Living in Towns
(1953), chap 5.

  9. Avram Taylor,
Working Class Credit and the Community since 1918
(Basingstoke, 2002), pp 72–3;  Dennis et al,
Coal
, p 197; Carole Anne Stafford and Alan Crowe,
Us Kids
(Birmingham, 1998), pp 26–7; Lorna Sage,
Bad Blood
(2000), pp 40–41.

10. P. Ford and C. J. Thomas,
Shops and Planning
(Oxford, 1953), p 44; Worth,
Call
, p 30; Melanie Tebbutt,
Women’s Talk?
(Aldershot, 1995), pp 60, 50, 174.

11. Alison Ravetz,
Council Housing and Culture
(2001), p 165; Colls, ‘When We Lived’, p 298; Worth,
Call
, p 30; Geoffrey Gorer,
Exploring English Character
(1955), pp 60–61; Kuper, ‘Blueprint’, pp 45–7; Boyle,
Sense
, p 8; Donald James Wheal,
White City
(2007), p 265.

12. Kerr,
People
, pp 102–9, 138–41; Mogey,
Family
, pp 84, 94; Dennis et al,
Coal
, pp 152–3; Hodges and Smith, ‘Sheffield Estate’, pp 109–10; Kuper, ‘Blueprint’, pp 14–15, 50–3, 59, 99–101;
Coventry Evening Telegraph
, 28 Apr 1952;
Times Literary Supplement
, 8 Jan 1954.

13. Hodges and Smith, ‘Sheffield Estate’, p 108; G. Duncan Mitchell and Thomas Lupton, ‘The Liverpool Estate’, in University of Liverpool,
Neighbourhood and Community
(Liverpool, 1954), p 58; Mogey,
Family
, pp 85–8.

14. M-O A, Directives for Sept 1947; Gorer,
Exploring
, chap 4.

15. John Davis (‘New Jerusalem’ seminar, Kingston University), 3 June 2008; Worth,
Call
, p 180; Porter,
London
, pp xiv–xv.

16. Fred Lindop, ‘Unofficial Militancy in the Royal Group of Docks, 1945–67’,
Oral History
(Autumn 1983), p 27; Robb,
Working-Class
, p 115; Kuper, ‘Blueprint’, pp 37–9;
Manchester Guardian
, 5 Sep 1953; Ravetz,
Council Housing
, p 166; Enid Palmer Letters (Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum), Oct 1948.

10 Hit It Somebody

  1.
New Yorker
, 11 Oct 1952; Brian Brivati,
Hugh Gaitskell
(1996), p 172;
Crossman
, p 151; Brivati,
Hugh Gaitskell
, p 176; BBC WA,
Any Questions?
, 10 Oct 1952.

  2. Kenneth Harris,
Attlee
(1982), p 506;
New Statesman
, 25 Oct 1952; Michael Young, ‘The Leadership, the Rank and File, and Mr Bevan’,
Political Quarterly
(Jan–Mar 1953), p 104; Michael Young Papers (Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge), 2/1/1, 10/3; Young, ‘Leadership’, p 106;
New Statesman
, 31 Jan 1953; Brivati,
Hugh Gaitskell
, p 181; John Saville, ‘Sir Lincoln Evans’, in Joyce M. Bellamy and John Saville (eds),
Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volume IX
(Basingstoke, 1993), pp 80–83.

  3.
Financial Times
, 8 Oct 1952; Nicholas Timmins,
The Five Giants
(2001), pp 205–6; Robert Shepherd,
Iain Macleod
(1994), pp 84–5; Channel 4,
Pennies from Bevan
, 14 June 1998; Robert J. Wybrow,
Britain Speaks Out, 1937–87
(Basingstoke, 1989), p 38;
New Yorker
, 29 Nov 1952; Langford, 14 Apr 1953; George H. Gallup (ed),
The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls: Great Britain 1937–1975: Volume 1
(New York, 1976), p 294; Mark Pottle (ed),
Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946–1969
(2000), p 121;
Lennox Herald
, 2 May 1953; M-O A, TC 67/9/D.

  4.
The Times
, 9 Oct 1952;
Independent
, 11 Oct 1999 (Natasha Walter);
BBC History Magazine
, Dec 2002, p 48; Heap, 6 Dec 1952; Raynham, 7 Dec 1952; Langford, 8 Dec 1952;
Farmers Weekly
, 12 Dec 1952;
BBC History Magazine
(Dec 2002), p 49 (Devra Davis);
Hansard
, 27 Jan 1953, col 829.

  5. BBC2,
Timewatch: The Greatest Storm
, 31 Oct 2003;
Fowles
, p 14;
Oldie
(July 2007), pp 42–3;
Independent
, 23 Jan 2003 (Michael McCarthy);
Timewatch
(Martin Francis); Michael Young, ‘The Role of the Extended Family in a Disaster’,
Human Relations
(1954), pp 387–8;
New Yorker
, 21 Feb 1953.

  6. Fenton Bresler,
Lord Goddard
(1977), pp 225–6; Langford, 27 Oct 1952; National Archives, C.C. 96 (52), 20 Nov 1952;
Picture Post
, 6 Dec 1952; Langford, 7 Dec 1952; Bresler,
Lord Goddard
, p 234.

  7. Michael Collins,
The Likes of Us
(2004), p 154; Donald Thomas,
Villains’ Paradise
(2005), p 205; Langford, 10–11 Dec 1952;
Sunday Times
, 25 Jan 1953;
News of the World
, 25 Jan 1953; Rayner Heppenstall,
The Intellectual Part
(1963), pp 136–7.

  8.
Daily Express
, 27 Jan 1953;
Daily Mirror
, 27 Jan 1953;
Spectator
, 30 Jan 1953; Russell Davies (ed),
The Kenneth Williams Diaries
(1993), p 87;
Evening Standard
, 31 Jul 1998; Humphrey Berkeley,
Crossing the Floor
(1972), p 127;
Daily Mirror
, 28 Jan 1953; Rosalind Delmar, ‘Recalling a Landscape: Growing Up in Dormanstown’, in Jim Fyrth (ed),
Labour’s Promised Land?
(1995), p 313; Edmund White,
Genet
(1993), p 536; M-O A, D5353, 28 Jan 1953; Haines, 28 Jan 1953; Langford, 31 Jan 1953;
Independent
, 31 Jul 1998.

  9.
Daily Express
, 25 Mar 1953;
Daily Mirror
, 25 Mar 1953;
Picture Post
, 18 Apr 1953;
The Times
, 26 Jan 1953;
News of the World
, 25 Jan 1953, 22 Feb 1953;
Daily Mirror
, 21 Feb 1953;
Kenneth Williams Diaries
, p 89;
The Times
, 15 Oct 2002.

10.
Sunday Graphic
, 26 Oct 1952, 2 Nov 1952; Ian Grosvenor et al (eds),
Making Connections
(Birmingham, 2002), p 63; Michael Banton, ‘The Changing Position of the Negro in Britain’,
Phylon
(March 1953), pp 82–3; Kathleen Jones,
Catherine Cookson
(1999), pp 214–15.

11.
Spectator
, 5 Dec 1952;
New Statesman
, 13 Dec 1952; Heap, 25 Nov 1952; ‘Sir Peter Saunders’,
Daily Telegraph
, 8 Feb 2003.

12.
Times Literary Supplement
, 17 Apr 1953;
Listener
, 23 Apr 1953;
Sunday Times
, 12 Apr 1953, 5 Nov 2006; Ian Fleming,
Casino Royale
(Pan edn, 1958), pp 157, 89, 61–2; David Cannadine,
In Churchill’s Shadow
(2002), p 281.

13. Andrew Lycett,
Dylan Thomas
(2003), p 340;
Spectator
, 5 Dec 1952; Lycett,
Dylan Thomas
, p 340;
Radio Times
, 24 Apr 1953; Humphrey Carpenter,
The Angry Young Men
(2002), pp 54–5.

14. Bill Wyman,
Stone Alone
(1990), p 52;
New Musical Express
, 7 Nov 1952, 14 Nov 1952, 20 Mar 1953;
News of the World
, 29 Mar 1953; Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley (eds),
The Noël Coward Diaries
(1982), p 209; Pottle (ed),
Daring to Hope
, p 119;
New Statesman
, 11 Apr 1953.

15. Charles Gordon,
The Two Tycoons
(1984), p 42; Richard Davenport-Hines, ‘Sir Charles Clore’, in
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
,
Volume 12
(Oxford, 2004), pp 183–4; David Clutterbuck and Marion Devine
, Clore
(1987), p 69;
Northampton Independent
, 13 Feb 1953;
Economist
, 14 Feb 1953; David Kynaston,
The City of London, Volume IV
(2001), p 64.

16. Steve Jefferys, ’The Changing Face of Conflict: Shopfloor Organization at Longbridge, 1939–1980’, in Michael Terry and P. K. Edwards (eds),
Shopfloor Politics and Job Controls
(Oxford, 1988), p 68; Etheridge Papers (Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick), 202/S/J/3/3/2, 17 Feb 1953; Tim Claydon, ‘Tales of Disorder: The Press and the Narrative Construction of Industrial Relations in the British Motor Industry, 1950–79’,
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations
(Spring 2000), pp 12–13;
Birmingham Post
, 28 Mar 1953; John Salmon, ‘Wage Strategy, Redundancy and Shop Stewards in the Coventry Motor Industry’, in Terry and Edwards (eds),
Shopfloor
, p 198; Anthony Sutcliffe and Roger Smith,
Birmingham 1939–1970
(1974), p 173; Les Gurl Papers (Archives, Ruskin College, Oxford), 57/1.

17. Bank of England Archives, LDMA 1/7, 6 Mar 1953; Langford, 6 Mar 1953; Claire Harman (ed),
The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
(1994), p 194; Michael Wharton,
The Missing Will
(1984), p 198; Alison Macleod,
The Death of Uncle Joe
(Woodbridge, 1997), p 38; Paul Boyle (ed),
Cassandra at His Finest and Funniest
(1967), p 148; Dianne Kirby, ‘Ecclesiastic McCarthyism: Cold War Repression in the Church of England’,
Contemporary British History
(June 2005), pp 192–6.

18.
Radio Times
, 17 Apr 1953; ‘Hilda Brabban’,
Daily Telegraph
, 21 Sep 2002; Brenda Maddox,
Rosalind Franklin
(2002); M-O A, D5353, 30 Apr 1953.

19. Langford, 8 Oct 1952;
Architects’ Journal
, 2 Oct 1952, 30 Oct 1952; Nick Tiratsoo et al,
Urban Reconstruction in Britain and Japan, 1945–1955
(Luton, 2002), p 13; Macmillan, p 185; Tiratsoo,
Urban Reconstruction
, p 12;
Architects’ Journal
, 24 Apr 1952, 21 Aug 1952.

20. N. Tiratsoo,
Reconstruction, Affluence and Labour Politics
(1990), p 52;
Coventry Evening Telegraph
, 4 Jun 1952; Tiratsoo,
Urban Reconstruction
, p 24; Tiratsoo,
Reconstruction
, p 75;
Coventry Evening Telegraph
, 7 Feb 1953, 11 Feb 1953.

21. Janie Hampton (ed),
Joyce & Ginnie
(1997), p 175;
Glasgow Herald
, 15–16 Oct 1952; Charles Johnstone, ‘The Tenants’ Movement and Housing Struggles in Glasgow, 1945–1990’, University of Glasgow PhD, 1991, pp 315–18; BBC WA, R9/74/1, May 1953.

22. Benwell Community Project, Final Report Series, no 4,
Slums on the Drawing Board
(Newcastle upon Tyne, 1978), p 8;
Proceedings of the Council of the City and County of Newcastle upon Tyne for 1952–1953
(Newcastle upon Tyne, 1953), pp 585–7.