Family Britain, 1951-1957 (120 page)

  6. Langford, 9 Oct 1954; M-O A, D5353, 9 Oct 1954; Haines, 29 Nov 1954;
Crossman
, pp 375–6.

  7. Langford, 22 Oct 1954; Philip Norman,
John Lennon
(2008), pp 65–6; Roger Wilmut and Jimmy Grafton,
The Goon Show Companion
(1976), p 140;
Listener
, 21 Oct 1954; Norman,
John Lennon
, p 65; Wilmut and Grafton,
Goon Show
, pp 59–60;
Radio Times
, 29 Oct 1954; Russell Davies (ed),
The Kenneth Williams Diaries
(1993), p 105;
Radio Times
, 29 Oct 1954;
Listener
, 11 Nov 1954; Roger Wilmut,
Tony Hancock ‘Artiste’
(1978), p 174; Peter Goddard, ‘“Hancock’s Half-Hour”: A Watershed in British Television Comedy’, in John Corner (ed),
Popular Television in Britain
(1991), p 78.

  8.
Radio Times
, 10 Dec 1954; Langford, 13 Oct 1954; Susan Sydney-Smith,
Beyond Dixon of Dock Green
(2002), pp 100–101;
Radio Times
, 17 Dec 1954;
News Chronicle
, 15 Nov 1954;
Punch
, 15 Dec 1954.

  9.
Radio Times
, 10 Dec 1954;
Listener
, 16 Dec 1954; Francis Wheen,
Television
(1985), p 111; BBC WA, R9/19/2, Feb 1955; Chaplin, 7/3/1, 14 Dec 1954;
Any Questions?
, 17 Dec 1954;
Punch
, 21 Dec 1954; Martin, 12 Nov 1954;
Picture Post
, 20 Nov 1954; Macmillan, p 388; John Springhall, ‘Horror Comics: The Nasties of the 1950s’,
History Today
(Jul 1994), pp 10–13.

10. Langford, 9 Oct 1954;
Spectator
, 1 Oct 1954; Andrew Lambirth, ‘John Bratby’,
Independent
, 23 Jul 1992;
New Statesman
, 25 Sep 1954; David Sylvester, ‘The Kitchen Sink’,
Encounter
(Dec 1954), pp 61–4; Philip Vann, ‘Jean Cooke’,
Guardian
, 29 Aug 2008; Andrew Lambirth, ‘Jean Cooke’,
Indpendent
, 11 Aug 2008.

11. Macmillan, p 368; Raynham, 30 Nov 1954; Daniel Farson,
Sacred Monsters
(1988), p 167; Clarissa Eden,
A Memoir
(2007), p 180; Kenneth Harris,
Attlee
(1982), p 525; Roy Jenkins,
Churchill
(2001), p 890;
Spectator
, 3 Dec 1954; Brian Glanville, ‘Stan Culllis’,
Guardian
, 1 Mar 2001; Percy M. Young,
Football Year
(1956), p 49;
The Times
, 17 Nov 1954; Subrata Dasgupta,
Salaam Stanley Matthews
(2006), pp 92–3;
News Chronicle
, 14 Dec 1954; Phyllis Willmott,
Bethnal Green Journal, 1954–1955
(2001), p 37; Haines, 28 Dec 1954.

5 A Fair Crack at the Whip

  1. Charles Loft, ‘Reappraisal and Reshaping: Government and the Railway Problem, 1951–64’,
Contemporary British History
(Winter 2001), p 75;
News Chronicle
, 25 Jan 1955; BBC Four, ‘The Last Days of Steam’, 16 Oct 2008;
Economist
, 29 Jan 1955; Osbert Lancaster,
Signs of the Times
(1961), p 89;
New Statesman
, 24 Nov 2003 (Gerald Crompton);
The Times
, 3 Feb 1955;
Picture Post
, 5 Nov 1955;
Town Planning Review
(Jan 1956), p 237.

  2.
News Chronicle
, 16 Feb 1955; Fred Roberts,
Sixty Years of Nuclear History
(Charlbury, 1999), pp 72–3; Sir Christopher Hinton, ‘The Atom for You’,
Picture Post
, 13 Aug 1955; Raynham, 31 Mar 1955.

  3. Andrew Roberts,
Eminent Churchillians
(1994), pp 270–74; George H. Gallup (ed),
The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls: Great Britain, 1937–1975, Volume One
(New York, 1976), p 343; Macmillan, p 378;
Economist
, 15 Jan 1955; Simon Heffer,
Like the Roman
(1988), p 195; Macmillan, p 382; John Stobbs, ‘Is Morale High Enough?’,
Picture Post
, 14 Jan 1956; Brian Thompson,
Clever Girl
(2007), pp 151–4.

  4. John Singleton, ‘Showing the White Flag: The Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1945–65’,
Business History
(Oct 1990), pp 132–3; Marguerite Dupree, ‘Struggling with Destiny: The Cotton Industry Overseas Trade Policy and the Cotton Board, 1940–1959’,
Business History
(Oct 1990), p 119;
Spectator
, 5 Feb 1954;
Picture Post
, 20 Feb 1954; Dupree, ‘Struggling’, pp 120–21.

  5. Wendy Webster,
Englishness and Empire, 1939–1965
(Oxford, 2005), pp 159–61;
Birmingham Post
, 1 Feb 1955;
New Statesman
, 12 Feb 1955;
Picture Post
, 22 Jan 1955; John Corner, ‘Documentary Voices’, in John Corner (ed),
Popular Television in Britain
(1991), p 47.

  6. Langford, 3 Apr 1955;
Independent
, 8 Jun 1998 (Mary Chamberlain); Paul Foot,
Immigration and Race in British Politics
(1965), p 126; Michael Banton,
White and Coloured
(1959), pp 157–8.

  7.
Independent
, 19 Apr 2000; Mike Phillips and Trevor Phillips,
Windrush
(1998), p 149; Donald Hinds,
Journey to an Illusion
(1966), pp 73, 85–6;
Picture Post
, 16 Jan 1954, 30 Jan 1954;
Birmingham Post
, 15 Nov 1954, 17 Jan 1955;
News Chronicle
, 7 Feb 1955; Foot,
Immigration
, p 57;
Manchester Guardian
, 20 Jan 1955;
New Statesman
, 9 Oct 1954.

  8. Banton,
White
, p 163;
Manchester Guardian
, 31 Jan 1955; Stephen Tolliday, ‘High Times and After: Coventry Engineering Workers and Shopfloor Bargaining, 1945–80’, in Bill Lancaster and Tony Mason (eds),
Life and Labour in a Twentieth Century City
(Coventry, c. 1986), p 207;
Birmingham Post
, 17 Jan 1955;
The Times
, 9 Nov 1954;
Socialist Commentary
(Dec 1954), pp 356, 358.

  9.
Birmingham Post
, 28 Feb 1955;
West Bromwich, Oldbury and Smethwick Midland Chronicle & Free Press
, 18 Feb 1955; Clive Harris, ‘Post-war Migration and the Industrial Reserve Army’, in Winston James and Clive Harris (eds),
Inside Babylon
(1993), p 43; Heffer,
Like
, pp 196–7.

10. Randall Hanson,
Citizenship and Immigration in Post-war Britain
(Oxford, 2000), p 70; D. W. Dean, ‘Conservative Governments and the Restriction of Commonwealth Immigration in the 1950s: The Problems of Constraint’,
Historical Journal
(Mar 1992), pp 174–5; Kathleen Paul,
Whitewashing Britain
(Ithaca, 1997), p 138; Roberts,
Eminent Churchillians
, p 233; Foot,
Immigration
, p 165; Roberts,
Eminent Churchillians
, p 233;
The Times
, 8 Nov 1954; Foot,
Immigration
, p 56.

11. Macmillan, p 382; Ian Gilmour and Mark Garnett,
Whatever Happened to the Tories
(1997), p 78; Roberts,
Eminent Churchillians
, pp 235–6;
Birmingham Post
, 14 Mar 1955.

12.
Picture Post
, 30 Nov 1954, 17 Apr 1954;
Western Mail
, 14 Jan 1955;
Picture Post
, 12 Feb 1955;
South London Press
, 16 Sep 1955; Gallup (ed),
Gallup
, p 343;
Independent
, 15 Jun 1998 (Randeep Ramesh);
New Statesman
, 17 Sep 1955 (Norman MacKenzie); A. G. Bennett,
Because They Know Not
(1954), p 22.

13. M-O A, D5353, 13 Jan 1955; BBC WA,
Any Questions?
, 14 Jan 1955;
Radio Times
, 7 Jan 1955;
Independent
, 27 Jun 2002 (Martin Kelner); Mark Lewisohn,
Funny, Peculiar
(2002), p 242; BBC WA, R9/9/19–LR/55/1325; James Green, ‘Harry Corbett’,
Independent
, 21 Aug 1989.

14.
Radio Times
, 11 Feb 1955;
Spectator
, 25 Feb 1955; Anthony Hayward, ‘Peggy Mount’,
Independent
, 14 Nov 2001;
Radio Times
, 11 Feb 2005; Clive Ellis,
Fabulous Fanny Cradock
(Stroud, 2007), pp 82–4;
Listener
, 24 Feb 1955; Marguerite Patten, ‘A Life in the Day’,
Sunday Times
, 17 Jun 2007;
News Chronicle
, 3 Jan 1955;
New Yorker
, 5 Mar 1955.

15. Haines, 2 Feb 1955, 15 Feb 1955, 19 Feb 1955, 26 Feb 1955, 5 Mar 1955, 7 Mar 1955, 19 Mar 1955;
Economist
, 28 May 1955; Haines, 2 May 1955; Peter Townsend,
The Family Life of Old People
(1957), pp 296–7, 300, 309–10; Townsend, 20 May 1955; Dartington Hall Trust Archives, DWE/G/11/C, 27 May 1955.

16. ‘The Duke of Bedford’,
Guardian
(Dennis Barker)/
The Times
, 29 Oct 2002; John, Duke of Bedford,
A Silver-Plated Spoon
(1959), p 214; David Cannadine,
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
(1990), pp 646–7; Nirad C. Chaudhuri,
A Passage to England
(Hogarth Press edn, 1989), pp 147–8; J. Mordaunt Crook, ‘Raffles in the Ruins’,
Times Literary Supplement
, 8 May 1998;
The Times
, 24 Jun 1955, 29 Jun 1955; St John, 16 Apr 1955; John Fisher,
Tony Hancock
(2008), p 175; Jack Adrian, ‘Robin Boyle’,
Independent
, 1 Oct 2003;
Sunday Pictorial
, 24 Apr 1955; Fisher,
Tony Hancock
, p 163; Mark Abrams, ‘Child Audiences for Television in Great Britain’,
Journalism Quarterly
(Winter 1956), pp 35–41.

17.
Accrington Observer
, 12 Apr 1955, 23 Apr 1955, 30 Apr 1955, 3 May 1955, 7 May 1955; Macmillan, pp 408–10; Lord Birkenhead,
Walter Monckton
(1969), p 299;
Financial Times
, 21 Apr 1955; Martin, 21 Apr 1955; M-O A, TC 61/14/A; Frank MacShane (ed),
Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
(1981), p 388.

6 A Lot of Hooey

  1. M-O A, TC 61/14/A, D5353, 5 Apr 1955; Michael Cockerell,
Live from Number 10
(1988), p 27; Macmillan, p 413; Roy Jenkins
, Churchill
(2001), p 896; M-O A, D5353, 15 Apr 1955; Clarissa Eden,
A Memoir
(2007), p 184.

  2. David Kynaston
, The City of London, Volume IV
(2001), p 68;
Financial Times
, 21 Apr 1955, 23 Apr 1955; Philip M. Williams,
Hugh Gaitskell
(1979), p 352.

  3. John Campbell,
Nye Bevan
(Richard Cohen edn, 1997), p 296; Anne Perkins,
Red Queen
(2003), p 131;
Crossman
, p 410; Dianne Kirby, ‘The Church of England and the Cold War Nuclear Debate’,
Twentieth Century British History
4/3 (1993), pp 278–9;
Crossman
, p 389; E. P. Thompson,
The Poverty of Theory
(1978), pp 1–2.

  4.
Picture Post
, 21 May 1955.

  5. Langford, 11 May 1955; Lawrence Black,
The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951–64
(Basingstoke, 2003), p 23;
The Times
, 6 Jul 1955; Robert M. Worcester,
British Public Opinion
(Oxford, 1991), p 14; M-O A, D5353, 13 May 1955.

  6.
Manchester Guardian
, 12 May 1955;
Independent
, 14 Mar 1992 (Michael Cockerell); Philip Ziegler,
Wilson
(1993), pp 106–7;
New Statesman
, 21 May 1955, 28 May 1955, 14 May 1955, 28 May 1955;
New Yorker
, 11 Jun 1955; Cockerell,
Live
, p 36.

  7. Brian Brivati,
Hugh Gaitskell
(1996), pp 216–17; Kenneth Harris,
Attlee
(1982), p 533; Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska,
Austerity in Britain
(Oxford, 2000), pp 239–40; Robert Shepherd,
Enoch Powell
(1996), p 135; David Dutton,
Anthony Eden
(1997), p 270; Sir Anthony Eden,
Full Circle
(1960), p 279; Eden,
Memoir
, p 207;
Guardian
, 15 Sep 2006 (Michael White).

  8. David Rayvern Allen,
Arlott
(1994), p 233; Norman Tebbit,
Upwardly Mobile
(1988), p 47;
Harwich & Dovercourt Standard
, 20 May 1955, 3 Jun 1955, 6 May 1955; Sir Gerald Nabarro,
NAB 1
(Oxford, 1969), pp 126–7; Lewis Baston,
Reggie
(Stroud, 2004), pp 97, 104–17.

  9. Fowles, EUL MS 102/1/8, fol 223, 26/27 May 1955; Haines, 26 May 1955; M-O A, D5353, 26 May 1955; Turtle, 26–7 May 1955; M-O A, D5353, 27 May 1955; Heap, 27 May 1955.

10.
Crossman
, p 421; John McIlroy, ‘Reds at Work: Communist Factory Organisation in the Cold War, 1947–56’,
Labour History Review
(Summer 2000), p 197; Baston,
Reggie
, p 108; Kevin Jefferys,
Anthony Crosland
(Politico’s edn, 2000), p 54; Mark Garnett and Ian Aitken,
Splendid! Splendid!
(2002), p 44; Crossman, MS 154/8/17, fol 672, 31 May 1955.

11.
Crossman
, pp 280–81;
Times Literary Supplement
, 17 Nov 2000 (Martin Pugh); Benn, p 182;
Socialist Commentary
(Jul 1955), pp 198–200, 203–6.

7 A Fine Day for a Hanging

  1. David E. Martin and Bryan Sadler, ‘Arthur Deakin’, in Joyce M. Bellamy and John Saville (eds),
Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volume II
(1974), pp 112–17;

C. Slaughter, ‘The Strike of Yorkshire Mineworkers in May 1955’,
Sociological Review
(Dec 1958), pp 241, 258; Jim Phillips, ‘Inter-Union Conflict in the Docks, 1954–1955’,
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations
(Mar 1996), pp 107–30; St John, 29 May 1955; Robert Lacey,
Majesty
(Sphere edn, 1978), pp 280–81.

  2. Jim Phillips, ‘The Postwar Political Consensus and Industrial Unrest in the Docks, 1945–55’,
Twentieth Century British History
6/3 (1995), pp 313–14; Benn, p 221; Andrew Roberts,
Eminent Churchillians
(1994), p 276; Macmillan, pp 437, 435; Correlli Barnett,
The Verdict of Peace
(2001), pp 424–5, 427;
New Yorker
, 11 Jun 1955; Langford, 3 Jun 1955, 6 Jun 1955; Haines, 8 Jun 1955; Sean French,
Patrick Hamilton
(1993), p 245; Turtle, 14 Jun 1955.