Family Britain, 1951-1957 (117 page)

23. Nicholas Bullock,
Building the Post-War World
(2002), p 117;
Architects’ Journal
, 8 Nov 1951; Patricia Garside, ‘Town Planning in London, 1930–1961’, University of London PhD, 1979, p 497.

24. Bryan Appleyard,
The Pleasures of Peace
(1989), p 119; Thom Gorst,
The Buildings Around Us
(1995), p 113; Bullock,
Building
, pp 103, 105;
Osborn
, p 205;
Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects
(April 1953), p 217.

25. Mark Girouard,
Big Jim
(1998), p 54; Victoria Walsh,
Nigel Henderson
(2001), pp 54–5; Bullock,
Building
, pp 118–19; Alison and Peter Smithson,
Ordinariness and Light
(1970), pp 52, 25, 20–21, 31.

26. Ministry of Housing and Local Government,
Living in Flats
(1952), p 31; J. A. Yelling, ‘Expensive Land, Subsidies and Mixed Development in London, 1943–56’,
Planning Perspectives
(Apr 1994), p 150;
Town and Country Planning
(Jun 1952), p 292; E. W. Cooney, ‘High Flats in Local Authority Housing in England and Wales since 1945’, in Anthony Sutcliffe (ed),
Multi-Storey Living
(1974), p 164;
Hansard
, 20 Feb 1953, col 1679; BBC WA,
Any Questions?
, 27 Mar 1953.

27. Miles Glendinning, ‘Sam Bunton and the Cult of Mass Housing’, in Glendinning (ed),
Rebuilding Scotland
(East Linton, 1997), p 105;
Builder
, 18 Jan 1952;
Architects’ Journal
, 28 Feb 1952;
Glasgow Herald
, 14 Oct 1952;
Architects’ Journal
, 25 Dec 1952;
Daily Mirror
, 23 Feb 1953.

28. Michael Young Papers, 2/1/1; Patrick Dunleavy,
The Politics of Mass Housing in Britain, 1945–1975
(Oxford, 1981), p 215;
Boro’ of West Ham, East Ham, Barking and Stratford Express
, 4 Apr 1952;
Liverpool Daily Post
, 5 Sep 1952; Peter Shapely et al, ‘Civic Culture and Housing Policy in Manchester, 1945–79’,
Twentieth Century British History
15/4 (2004), pp 420–21;
Coventry Evening Telegraph
, 4 Apr 1953;
Proceedings
, p 584.

29. Sutcliffe and Smith,
Birmingham
, pp 430–31;
Birmingham Post
, 3 Jan 1952, 10 Jan 1952;
New Statesman
, 29 Dec 1951;
Architect and Building News
, 6 Nov 1952;
Architects’ Journal
, 26 Feb 1953.

30. A.G.V. Simmonds, ‘Conservative Governments and the Housing Question’, University of Leeds PhD, 1995, p 343; John Barron Mays, ‘A Study of a Police Division’,
British Journal of Delinquency
(Jan 1953), p 193;
Municipal Journal
, 22 May 1953; Langford, 12 Nov 1952.

31. Macmillan, p 215;
Glasgow Herald
, 9 Mar 1953.

32.
The Times
, 9 Apr 1996 (Harvey Elliott);
People
, 3 May 1953;
Coventry Evening Telegraph
, 2 May 1953, 4 May 1953.

33. Martin Johnes and Gavin Mellor, ‘The 1953 FA Cup Final: Modernity and Tradition in British Culture’,
Contemporary British History
(Jun 2006), pp 263–80;
Daily Express
, 2 May 1953;
The Times
, 2 May 1953; Paul Gardner, ‘Blackpool v Bolton Wanderers: The Cup Final, 1953’, in Ian Hamilton (ed),
The Faber Book of Soccer
(1992), pp 43–4, 46; M-O A, D5353, 2 May 1953; Radio 4,
The Archive Hour: Back to Square One
, 20 Jan 2007;
People
, 3 May 1953;
Daily Express
, 4 May 1953.

11 A Kind of Farewell Party

  1. Streat, p 676;
Independent
, 16 Nov 2004; Mike Jackman and Garth Dykes,
Accrington Stanley: A Complete Record, 1894–1962
(Derby, 1991), p 191; Phil Hubbard et al, ‘Memorials to Modernity: Public Art in the “City of the Future”’,
Landscape Research
(Apr 2003), p 160.

  2. M-O A, TC 69/3/B, TC 69/5/G; Martin, 12 May 1953;
People
, 17 May 1953; Speed, 19 May 1953; M-O A, TC 69/5/F.

  3. Preston, 21 May 1953; Heap, 21 May 1953; Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley (eds),
The Noël Coward Diaries
(1982), p 213; Martin, 30–31 May 1953.

  4. M-O A, TC 69/9/G, TC 69/5/E, TC 69/9/C.

  5. BBC WA, R9/4, 17 Jun 1953,
Woman’s Hour
, 1 Jun 1953.

  6. Haines, 1 Jun 1953; Lewis, 1 Jun 1953; M-O A, TC 69/5/G; Langford, 1 Jun 1953; Martin, 1 Jun 1953.

  7. M-O A, TC 69/5/I; Mark Pottle (ed),
Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946–1969
(2000), p 123;
Daily Express
, 2 Jun 1953; Margaret Thatcher,
The Path to Power
(1995), p 78; M-O A, TC 69/6/B; James Lees-Milne,
A Mingled Measure
(1994), p 30.

  8. BBC WA, R9/74/1, Jul 1953, R9/9/17–LR/53/1021; M-O A, TC 69/1/C; David Rayvern Allen (ed),
A Word from Arlott
(1983), pp 139–42; Martin, 2 Jun 1953; King, 2 Jun 1953; Raynham, 2 Jun 1953; St John, 2 Jun 1953.

  9. BBC WA, R9/9/17–LR/53/1021; Ben Pimlott,
The Queen
(1996), pp 205–6;
Guardian
, 2 Jun 2003 (Stephen Bates); Amis, p 323; BBC WA, R9/9/17–LR/53/1021; Jon Lusk, ‘George Browne’,
Independent
, 10 Apr 2007.

10. BBC WA, R9/74/1; Diary of Barbara Algie (Glasgow City Archives), 2 Jun 1953; Lord David Sutch,
Life as Sutch
(1991), p 13;
Independent
, 29 Oct 2001; Miriam Akhtar and Steve Humphries,
The Fifties and Sixties
(2001), p 99;
The Times
, 13 Sep 2004 (Stephanie Theobald);
Spectator
, 15 Dec 2001.

11. Golden, 2 Jun 1953; Haines, 2 Jun 1953; M-O A, T69/6/D.

12. Asa Briggs,
Sound and Vision
(Oxford, 1995), p 221; Heap, 3 Jun 1953; BBC WA, R9/13/96; Jonathan Dimbleby,
Richard Dimbleby
(1975), pp 249–50.

13. Lewis, 2 Jun 1953; Russell Davies (ed),
The Kenneth Williams Diaries
(1993), p 91; David Foot,
Harold Gimblett
(Fairfield edn, Bath, 2003), pp 27–8; Lorna Sage,
Bad Blood
(2000), p 125;
Oswestry and Border Counties Advertizer
, 10 Jun 1953; Preston, 2 Jun 1953; Alethea Hayter (ed),
A Wise Woman: A Memoir of Lavinia Mynors from Her Diaries and Letters
(Banham, Norfolk, 1996), p 90.

14. M-O A, TC 69/3/A;
New Statesman
, 6 Jun 1953; Kenneth Harris,
Attlee
(1982), p 510; Haines, 13 Jun 1953; ‘Elaine’, in Terry Jordan (ed),
Growing Up in the Fifties
(1990), p 85; Lulu,
I Don’t Want to Fight
(2002), p 22.

15. M-O A, TC 69/8/A; Maurice Broady, ‘The Organisation of Coronation Street Parties’,
Sociological Review
(Dec 1956), pp 229–38.

16. Anne Perkins,
Red Queen
(2003), p 119; Frances Partridge,
Everything to Lose
(Phoenix edn, 1999), pp 180–81;
Financial Times
, 28 Jun 2008;
Manchester Guardian
Archive (John Rylands Library, University of Manchester), 223/1;
New Statesman
Archive (University of Sussex, Special Collections), 17/7; Edward Shils and Michael Young, ‘The Meaning of the Coronation’,
Sociological Review
(Dec 1953), pp 63, 67, 73, 76–7; N. Birnbuam, ‘Monarchs and Sociologists: A Reply to Professor Shils and Mr Young’,
Sociological Review
(Jul 1955), p 23; Shils and Young, ‘The Meaning’, pp 78, 81.

17.
People
, 7 Jun 1953; Ronald Frankenberg,
Village on the Border
(1957), pp 120–22;
Oswestry and Border Counties Advertizer
, 10 Jun 1953; Foot, p 36;
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1954
(1954), pp 525–6;
New Statesman
, 6 Jun 1953; Kathleen Tynan,
The Life of Kenneth Tynan
(Methuen edn, 1988), pp 103–5;
New Yorker
, 27 Jun 1953; Payn and Morley (eds),
Coward Diaries
, p 214; Peter F. Alexander,
William Plomer
(Oxford, 1989), pp 279–82.

18. Lawrence Black,
The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951–64
(Basingstoke, 2003), p 94;
The Times
, 4 Jun 1953; Black,
Political Culture
, pp 94–5; Richard Weight,
Patriots
(2002), p 242; National Archives, CAB 195/11/1, 17 Jun 1953; Macmillan, p 238; BBC WA, R9/4, 13 Jul 1953; Anthony Sampson,
Anatomy of Britain
(1962), pp 606–8;
Daily Mirror
, 15 Jun 1953;
Manchester Guardian
, 15 Jun 1953; Des Freedman, ‘How Her Majesty’s Opposition Grew to Like Commercial Television: The Labour Party and the Origins of ITV’,
Media History
(Jun 1999), p 26;
News of the World
, 26 Jul 1953.

19. M-O A, TC 69/3/A; Pimlott,
Queen
, p 218;
People
, 14 Jun 1953; Nick Clarke,
The Shadow of a Nation
(2003), p 62; Tim Heald,
Princess Margaret
(2007), pp 98–101;
Daily Mirror
, 26 Jun 1953.

20.
Sunday Express
, 5 Jul 1953; M-O A, D5353, 9 Jul 1953; Janie Hampton (ed),
Joyce & Ginnie
(1997), p 188;
Sunday Express
, 12 Jul 1953;
People
, 12 Jul 1953;
Daily Mirror
, 13 Jul 1953; M-O A, D5353, 15 Jul 1953; Payn and Morley (eds),
Coward Diaries
, p 215.

21.
Daily Mirror
, 17 Jul 1953, 20 Jul 1953;
People
, 19 Jul 1953;
The Times
, 24 Jul 1953;
Guardian
, 3 Dec 2005.

22. Roy Jenkins,
Churchill
(2001), p 863; Roy Greenslade,
Press Gang
(2003), p 64;
People
, 28 Jun 1953;
Daily Mirror
, 29 Jun 1953; Robert Rhodes James (ed),
Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon
(1967), p 580;
Daily Mirror
, 17 Aug 1953; Lord Moran,
Winston Churchill
(1966), p 455.

23. Ludovic Kennedy,
Ten Rillington Place
(Panther edn, 1971), pp 7–11; Langford, 1 Jul 1953; Donald Thomas,
Villains’ Paradise
(2005), pp 215–16; Paul Rock and Stanley Cohen, ‘The Teddy Boy’, in Vernon Bogdanor and Robert Skidelsky (eds),
The Age of Affluence, 1951–1964
(1970), p 291; John Ezard, ‘Nigel Kneale’,
Guardian
, 3 Nov 2006; Hilary Kingsley and Geoff Tibballs,
Box of Delights
(1989), p 13;
The Times
, 28 Mar 2005;
News of the World
, 16 Aug 1953; BBC WA, R9/19/1, Sep 1953; Kingsley and Tibballs,
Box
, p 12;
Daily Mail
, 21 Jul 1953.

24.
News Chronicle
, 11 Aug 1953; Macmillan, p 264;
Daily Mirror
, 27 Jun 1953;
New Yorker
, 18 Jul 1953; Edwin Heathcote,
London Caffs
(Chichester, 2004), p 18;
Daily Telegraph
, 1 Jun 2002 (Max Davidson); Langford, 3 Jul 1953.

25. Douglas Bond,
1953 Scrapbook
(Newcastle upon Tyne, 1993), p 22;
Independent
, 1 Aug 1998 (Nicole Veash); Heap, 10 Aug 1953; Langford, 11–13 Aug 1953.

26. Alan Henry, ‘Duncan Hamilton’,
Guardian
, 19 May 1994;
Independent
, 21 Dec 1999, quoting Dick Booth; Lees-Milne,
Mingled Measure
, p 32; Martin, 27 Jun 1953.

27. John Campbell,
Margaret Thatcher, Volume One
(2000), pp 98–9; A. A. Thomson,
Cricket My Happiness
(1954), pp 16–17; Haines, 18 Aug 1953;
Spectator
, 10 Sep 2005 (Frank Keating); Haines, 19 Aug 1953.

12 Moral Courage

  1.
The Times
, 20–21 Aug 1953;
Punch
, 19 Aug 1953; Lawrence Black, ‘“The Bitterest Enemies of Communism”: Labour Revisionists, Atlanticism and the Cold War’,
Contemporary British History
(Autumn 2001), p 53;
Shetland Times
, 28 Aug 1953, 4 Sep 1953;
Orkney Herald
, 1 Sep 1953;
The Times
, 21 Sep 1953; David Cannadine, ‘The “Last Night of the Proms” in Historical Perspective’,
Historical Research
(May 2008), p 334.

  2.
News Chronicle
, 7 Sep 1953;
New Yorker
, 10 Oct 1953; Raynham, 28 Sep 1953;
New Yorker
, 10 Oct 1953; BBC WA, R9/19/1, Oct 1953;
Guardian
, 20 Sep 2008 (Michael Coveney reviewing Graham McCann,
Bounder!
); M-O A, D5353, 3 Oct 1953;
New Statesman
, 5 Sep 1953, 26 Sep 1953.

  3.
The Times
, 2 Oct 1953;
Daily Mirror
, 2 Oct 1953; Brian Simon, ‘The Tory Government and Education, 1951–60: Background to Breakout’,
History of Education
(Dec 1985), pp 289–90; Brian Simon,
Education and the Social Order, 1940–1990
(1991), pp 171–2;
Times Educational Supplement
, 6 Nov 1953; Bevis Hillier,
John Betjeman: New Fame, New Love
(2002), pp 562–3.

  4. Brian Simon,
A Life in Education
(1998), p 58;
Times Educational Supplement
, 15 Jan 1954;
New Statesman
, 27 Mar 1954; Simon,
Education and the Social Order
, p 176; Deborah Thom, ‘Politics and the People: Brian Simon and the Campaign against Intelligence Tests in British Schools’,
History of Education
(Sep 2004), pp 515–29;
Coulsdon & Purley Times
, 24 Jul 1953;
Crossman
, p 270; Papers of Wright Robinson (Manchester City Archives), Box 11, 18 Nov 1953; Crossman, Ms 154/8/14, 19 Nov 1953.

  5. Lorna Sage,
Bad Blood
(2000), pp 143–7;
The Times
, 2 Oct 1953; Alethea Hayter (ed),
A Wise Woman: A Memoir of Lavinia Mynors from Her Diaries and Letters
(Banham, Norfolk, 1996), p 97.

  6.
Daily Mirror
, 1 Oct 1953; Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley (eds),
The Noël Coward Diaries
(1982), p 221; Heap, 8 Oct 1953;
Spectator
, 16 Oct 1953;
New Statesman
, 17 Oct 1953;
Times Literary Supplement
, 18 Jul 2008; Martin Gilbert,
‘Never Despair’
(1988), p 895;
Observer
, 11 Oct 1953; Russell Davies (ed),
The Kenneth Williams Letters
(1994), pp 30–31.