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Scott, Kathleen,
59

 

Scovell, Doris,
35
,
201
-6

 

Seaford, Sussex,
131

 

seaside: holidays and outings,
132
–3

 

Seely, General John Edward Bernard
(later
ist Baron Mottistone),
106

 

Selby-Bigge, Joanna,
92
-3,
95

 

Selby-Bigge, John,
92

 

servants: and employment,
188
–96

 

Sewell, Private Horace (’Paddy’),
58

 

sex: and openness,
123
–6

 

Sex Disqualification Act (1919),
172
,
258

 

Shackleton, Sir Ernest,
119
,
150
-1,
219

 

Shaw, George Bernard: on T. E. Lawrence,
121

 

Shaw, James,
95

 

shell shock,
64
–7

 

Shirlaw, Mickey,
62

 

Shoulder Arms
(film),
85

 

Sibthorpe (property developer),
227

 

Sickert, Walter,
240

 

Sidcup, Kent: The Queen’s Hospital,
57
-8,
61
-2

 

silence (two-minute)
see
remembrance, act of

 

Singh, Rajah Sir Harry,
197

 

Sinn Fein: in December 1918 election,
75

 

establishes separate parliament in Ireland,
77
;

 

Ottoline Morrell supports,
236

 

Sitwell, Sir George,
192

 

Sitwell, Ida, Lady,
192

 

Sitwell, Osbert,
34
,
36
,
218

 

Sitwell, Sacheverell,
36
–7,
217
–18

 

Skelton, Lieutenant,
24

 

Sketch
(journal),
178
,
182
,
257

 

Smillie, Robert,
79
-80

 

Smith, Frank,
206

 

Smith, Keith Macpherson,
150

 

Smith, Ross,
150

 

Smith, W. H. (stationers),
253

 

Smyth, Ethel,
98

 

Somme, battle of the (1916),
15
-16

 

Sourbutts (undertaker),
267

 

South
(film),
151
,
219

 

Soveral, Luis, Marquis de,
11
,
15
,
103

 

Spectator
(magazine),
78
–9

 

Spender, Stephen,
132

 

spiritualism,
96
–7

 

sport,
105

 

Stewart, Patrick Shaw,
113

 

Stopes, Marie,
123
-6,
161
;

 

Married Love
,
124
,
126
;

 

Wise Parenthood
,
125

 

Stornoway, Isle of Lewis,
70

 

Storrs, Sir Ronald,
115

 

Strachey, Lytton,
36
,
237

 

Strand
magazine,
250

 

Stravinsky, Igor:
Pulcinella
(ballet),
215

 

street games,
210

 

strikes
see
industrial unrest

 

suffragettes,
2

 

suicide: among ex-servicemen,
67

 

Sutton, Francis Manners,
221

 

‘Tabloid’ (drug),
65

 

Tailor and Cutter
(magazine),
184

 

Tatler
(magazine),
15
,
139
,
148
,
151
,
156
-7,
163
,
184

 

Taylor, A. J. P.,
14

 

Tester, Bobby,
38

 

Tester, Edward,
37
–8

 

Tester, Elizabeth,
37
–8

 

Tester, Norah,
38

 

Tester, Robert,
38

 

Thierry, M. H.,
100

 

Thomas, Edward,
41
,
243
–4,
247

 

Thomas, Godfrey,
181

 

Thomas, James Henry,
79

 

Thomas, Lowell: talk and film on Allenby and Lawrence,
115
,
116
–20,
219

 

Thompson, Sir Henry,
6

 

Thorndyke, Sybil,
45

 

Thorpe, Adam,
209

 

Three-Cornered Hat, The
(ballet),
216
-17

 

Tiger
see
Gomme, Lionel

 

Times, The:
announces Kaiser’s abdication,
29
;

 

on influenza epidemic,
95
;

 

on Pelmanism,
98
;

 

on Cenotaph,
121
;

 

on name for Great War,
127
;

 

death announcements of war wounded,
143
;

 

on two-minute silence,
145
–7;

 

advertisement from troubled woman,
148
;

 

advertises dancing lessons,
154
;

 

on Buckingham Palace drinking,
163
;

 

on Lady Astor’s parliamentary victory,
170
–1;

 

advertisements for servants,
190
;

 

on modern ballet,
217
;

 

on film
J’Accuse
,
219
–20;

 

on decline of great houses,
229
;

 

on memorials for war dead,
265
;

 

on burial of unknown soldier,
269

 

Titanic
(ship),
214

 

Titley Will,
35
,
201
,
204
-6

 

Tonks, Henry,
18
,
58
-9,
242
,
244
-5

 

Trades Union Congress: membership,
75
;

 

and housing shortage,
80

 

Trefusis, Violet
(née
Keppel),
16
,
20
,
35
-6

 

trench foot,
22

 

Trinder, Second Lieutenant John,
68

 

Triple Alliance (trade unions),
78

 

Tweeddale, Marguerite Christine, Marchioness of,
202
–4

 

unemployment,
3
,
71
,
76
–7,
210

 

United States of America: and war’s end,
27
,
30
;

 

deaths from influenza epidemic,
95
;

 

conscription (1917),
115
;

 

Prince of Wales visits,
162
-3;

 

prohibition,
184
–5

 

Unknown Soldier,
1
,
266
–74

 

Valentino, Rudolph,
45

 

venereal disease,
23

 

Vernon, George,
113

 

Versailles, Treaty of (1919),
107
-8

 

Vicarage, A. B.,
60

 

Victoria, Queen: at Chatsworth,
224
–5

 

Vionnet, Madame (fashion designer),
173

 

Vogue
(magazine),
178
–9,
182
,
257

 

Voranov, Serge,
253
–4

 

Wade, Rubens,
59

 

war graves,
27
,
99

 

war memorials,
264
-5;
see also
Cenotaph

 

war wounded: effects and treatment,
48
-51;

 

causes,
51
-2

 

Ward, Mrs Humphry,
258

 

Waugh, Alec,
142

 

Waugh, Benjamin,
241

 

Waugh, Evelyn,
142

 

Wearing, Gladys,
124

 

Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire,
159

 

West, Rebecca:
The Return of the Soldier
,
236

 

West Indies: volunteers serve in forces,
130
-1

 

wheelchairs,
47

 

Whibley, Charles,
101

 

white feathers,
13

 

White’s Oyster Shop, Chancery Lane, London,
202

 

Wilde, Oscar,
24

 

Wilhelm II, Kaiser: abdication and exile in Holland,
28
–9;

 

and George V,
82
-3;

 

vilified,
84

 

Williams, Mrs Hwfa,
103

 

Wilson, Sir Henry,
76

 

Wilson, Captain Jono,
61

 

Wilson, Woodrow,
107
,
163
-4

 

wireless (radio),
214
–15

 

With Allenby in Palestine (and the Liberation of Holy Arabia)
(film),
117
-18

 

With Lawrence in Arabia
(film),
117

 

women: position of,
2
;

 

voting rights,
2
–3,
172
;

 

supposed emotionalism,
6
–7;

 

war work and service,
20
,
258
;

 

and wartime prostitution,
23
–4;

 

infidelity to serving soldiers,
43
,
68
;

 

dress and make-up,
44
,
158
–60,
173
–8,
207
;

 

as parliamentary candidates,
74
;

 

and sexual knowledge,
124
–5;

 

and promiscuity,
160
–1;

 

in Parliament,
167
–71;

 

emancipation and independence,
171
–2,
188
–9,
258
;

 

post-war employment,
188
;

 

at Oxford,
254
–5,
258
;

 

unmarried after war,
260
;
see also
divorce

 

Women’s Institute,
175
–6

 

Wood, Francis Derwent,
52
–3,
55
,
265

 

Wood Green, Battle of,
130

 

Wood Hall, Essex,
213

 

Woolf, Leonard,
101
,
127
,
132
,
195
,
258

 

Woolf, Virginia: on Armistice Day,
41
;

 

buys chocolate after war,
102
;

 

opposes Peace Parade,
108
;

 

publishes Eliot’s
Poems
,
127
;

 

essay on Kew Gardens,
179
;

 

on servants,
190
;

 

on Ottoline Morrell’s voice,
234
;

 

Ottoline Morrell on,
235
;

 

mental problems,
245
;

 

on tragic life,
258
;

 

Jacob’s Room
,
258

 

Woolley, Geoffrey,
143

 

wristwatches,
184

 

Wyatt, Brigadier General L. J.,
267
,
273

 

Yelland, Louis,
65

 

York, Prince Albert George, Duke of,
72

 

Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA),
48

 

Younghusband, General George and Florence,
31
-2

 

Zola, Emile,
220

 

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