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  • Aberdeen, Lord
    xxi
  • Act of Settlement
    80
  • Addington, Henry
    xxi
  • Afghanistan
    17
    ,
    19
    ,
    20
    ,
    22
    ,
    73
    ,
    89
    ,
    92
    ,
    185
    ,
    193
    ,
    195
    ,
    302
  • Africa
    20
    ,
    114
    ,
    117
  • African Queen, The
    56fn.
  • Agate, James
    254
  • Agincourt
    122
  • Alaska
    308
  • American Graffiti
    139
  • American Revolution 20fn.
  • Amin, Idi
    159
  • Amis, Kingsley
    94
    –
    97
  • Amis, Martin
    94
    ,
    95
  • Amritsar
    118
  • Andersen, Hans
    289
  • Anderson, Lindsay
    282
  • Andress, Ursula
    56
  • Andrews, Harry
    29
    –
    31
    ,
    59
    ,
    63
  • Andrews, Julie
    313
  • angling
    25
  • animal rights
    24
    ,
    25
  • Apaches
    118
  • Archer, Freddy
    299
  • Arlott, John
    276
  • Armada, the
    122
  • armed forces
    180
    –
    193
  • Armstrong, Rev. Henry
    225
  • Ashanti
    205
    ,
    206
    ,
    242
  • Ashe, Arthur
    214
  • asylum seekers
    229
    –
    232
  • Attlee, Clement
    88
  • Austen, Jane
    264
  • BBC
    xvii
    ,
    150
    ,
    217
    ,
    218
    ,
    228
    ,
    295
    ,
    311
  • Bach, Barbara
    131
    ,
    137
    ,
    141
  • Badel, Alan
    131
    ,
    137
    ,
    139
    ,
    140
    ,
    201
    ,
    208
  • Bader, Douglas
    188
  • Bad Ischl
    313
  • Baer, Max 57fn.
  • Baird, John Logie
    262
  • Baker, Nicholas
    236
  • Ballantyne, R.M.
    292
  • Bangalore
    176
    ,
    300
    ,
    301
    ,
    314
  • Barabbas
    27
  • Barbosa, Arthur
    30
    & fn.
  • Barrack-room Ballads
    294
  • Barradell-Smith, Walter
    295
    ,
    296
  • Barrie, J.M.
    122
    ,
    288
    ,
    295
  • Barry, B.H.
    32
    ,
    37
    ,
    38
  • Barrymores, the
    245
  • Bates, Alan
    83
  • Batt, Bert
    131
    ,
    134
  • Bautzer, Greg
    240
  • Beatles, the
    1
    ,
    3
  • Beckenbauer, Franz
    75
  • “Becket, Samuel”
    135
  • Bedi, Kebir
    205
    ,
    206
    ,
    242
  • Beethoven, Ludwig
    75
    ,
    77
  • Begelman, David
    235
    ,
    236
  • Belsen
    xvii
    ,
    74
    ,
    77
  • Benton, Robert
    55
    ,
    56
    ,
    60
    ,
    61
  • Bent’s Fort
    308
  • Berlin
    18
  • Berlin Wall
    78
  • Best, Willie
    225
  • Beverly Hillbillies, The
    102
  • Bickford, Charles
    173
  • Bill of Rights
    74
  • Bin Laden, Osama
    17
    ,
    19
    , 20 & fn.
  • Birmingham Post
    251
  • Bismarck, Otto von
    75
  • Black Ajax
    111
    ,
    112
    ,
    311
  • “Black Cat” Division
    21
  • Blackcock’s Feather
    128
  • Black Hills, the
    307
  • Blair, Tony
    xxii
    ,
    17
    –
    22
    ,
    25
    ,
    49
    ,
    72
    ,
    73
    , 89 & fn.,
    116
    ,
    117
    ,
    144
    ,
    185
    ,
    193
    ,
    195
    ,
    251
    ,
    252
  • Blencathra Hunt
    25
  • Blithe Spirit
    314
  • Blitz, the
    122
  • Blucher, Marshal
    75
  • Bolt, Robert
    208
  • Bond, James
    234
    –
    244
  • Border Regiment
    21
    ,
    190
    ,
    300
    ,
    302
  • Borgnine, Ernest
    27
    ,
    35
    ,
    40
    ,
    160
  • Borneo
    305
    ,
    307
  • Boston Strangler, The
    27
  • Bounty
    , The
    207
    ,
    208
  • Bracknell, Lady
    233
  • Bradley, R.S.M. Charley
    187
    ,
    299
    ,
    300
  • Brady, Ian
    142
    ,
    146
    ,
    149
  • Brando, Marlon
    57
    –
    59
    ,
    63
    ,
    87
  • Braveheart
    114
    ,
    157
  • Brecht, Bertolt
    70
  • Bremner, Rory
    14
  • Bridie, James
    295
  • British Empire
    157
    –9,
    190
    ,
    227
  • Broadcasting Standards Commission
    217
  • Broccoli, Albert (“Cubby”)
    234
    –
    238
    ,
    241
    ,
    242
    ,
    244
  • Bronson, Charles
    56
  • Brown, Gordon
    88
  • Bruce, Robert
    31
    ,
    186
    ,
    289
    ,
    291
  • Brute Force
    173
  • Buchan, John
    288
  • Buchanan, Jack
    295
  • Budapest
    32
  • passim,
    313
  • bullying
    153
    ,
    154
    ,
    189
  • Burke, Edmund
    48
    ,
    49
  • Burma
    21
    ,
    97
    ,
    184
    ,
    225
    ,
    300
    ,
    301
    ,
    313
  • Burnet, Alastair
    248
  • Burns, Robert
    124
  • Burroughs, Edgar Rice 97fn,
    199
  • Bush, George W.
    17
    –
    22
    ,
    195
  • Cagney, James
    245
    ,
    294
  • Caine, Michael
    205
    ,
    284
  • Cairo-Jerusalem train
    303
  • Canada
    101
    ,
    194
  • Candlemass Road, The
    311
  • Cannes Film Festival
    204
    ,
    205
  • Canterbury, Archbishop of
    106
    ,
    117
    ,
    118
  • Canton
    307
  • capital punishment
    143
    –
    147
    ,
    155
  • Captain Blood
    208
  • Cardiff, Jack
    28
    ,
    31
    ,
    36
    ,
    37
    ,
    40
    ,
    41
    ,
    86
    ,
    265
  • Carlisle
    98
    ,
    100
    ,
    186
    ,
    225
    ,
    289
    ,
    291
  • Carlisle Grammar School
    289
    –
    291
  • Carlisle Journal
    99
    ,
    303
  • Carlisle United
    99
    ,
    274
    ,
    313
  • Carlyle, Thomas
    xix
    ,
    282
  • Carmen
    313
  • Carnegie, Andrew
    288
  • Casanova
    113
    ,
    279
    ,
    280
  • Casanova, Giacomo
    289
  • Cash, Johnnie
    97
  • Cassel, Jean-Pierre
    10
    ,
    12
    ,
    280
  • Cattrall, Kim
    12
    ,
    16
  • Cawnpore
    118
  • Ceylon
    18
  • Chamberlain, Richard
    3
    ,
    6
    ,
    10
    ,
    12
    ,
    113
    ,
    280
  • Chaplin, Charlie
    97
  • Chaplin, Geraldine
    6
  • Charles I
    11
    –
    13
    , 66fn.
  • Chase, James Hadley
    97
    & fn.
  • Chatham, Earl of
    68
  • Chatterley case
    258
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey
    290
  • Chesterton, G.K.
    122
  • Chiang Kai-shek, Madam
    236
  • Children’s Encyclopedia
    291
    ,
    292
  • Churchill, Winston
    18
    ,
    68
    ,
    190
    ,
    263
    ,
    301
  • Cincinnatus
    51
  • Citizen Kane
    16
  • Clair, Rene
    55
    & fn.
  • Clarke, Alan
    26
    ,
    45
  • Clavel, James
    199
    –
    202
  • Clayton, Jack
    281
  • Clift, Montgomery
    171
    & fn.
  • Clinton, William
    91
    ,
    104
  • Clydebank
    77
  • Coburn, James
    35
  • Cohn, Harry
    144
  • Colley, Ken
    280
  • Colman, Ronald
    294
  • Colman Smith, John
    294
    –
    296
  • Commission for Racial Equality
    217
    ,
    220
  • Conan Doyle, Arthur
    199
    ,
    288
  • Conan the Barbarian (comic)
    54
    ,
    264
  • Conan the Destroyer
    27
  • Connery, Sean
    201
    ,
    203
    ,
    204
    ,
    244
  • Connolly, Billy
    13
    ,
    86
  • Connolly, Cyril
    318
  • Connors, Jimmy
    214
  • Conrad, Joseph
    54
  • Cook, Robin 91fn.
  • Cooke, Alistair
    249
  • Cooper, Gary
    293
  • Cooper, Henry 57fn., 83 & fn.
  • Cooper, Tommy
    317
  • Corbett, James J. 57fn.
  • Cording, Harry
    28
  • corporal punishment
    143
    ,
    149
    ,
    152
    –
    155
  • Cravat, Nick
    166
    ,
    167
    ,
    172
  • Cribb, Tom
    111
  • Crimean War 20fn.
  • Crimson Pirate, The
    38
    ,
    160
    ,
    161
    ,
    168
  • Cromwell, Oliver
    xx
    ,
    11
    ,
    12
    , 66fn.,
    69
    ,
    118
    ,
    289
    ,
    291
  • Cromwell, Richard
    88
  • Cronin, A.J.
    96
  • Cronyn, Hume
    173
  • Crosby, Bing 37fn.
  • Crossed Swords
    (see
    The Prince and the Pauper
    )
  • Cruickshank, Andrew
    261
  • Culloden
    125
  • Culver, Roland
    30
  • Curtis, Tony 182fn.
  • Curtiz, Michael
    29
  • Custer, George Armstrong
    307
     
  • Dachau
    xvii
    ,
    74
  • Dad’s Army
    74
  • Daniell, Henry
    139
  • Darien Scheme
    123
  • David Copperfield
    268
  • Davis, Bette
    245
  • Davis, Sammy
    222
  • Dawson, Les
    9
  • Dean, Felicity
    35
  • Declaration of Arbroath
    74
  • de la Billiere, Peter
    191
  • de la Mare, Walter
    294
  • De Laurentiis, Dino
    60
    ,
    264
  • passim,
    283
    Delphi
    308
  • Deluca, Rande
    243
    ,
    244
  • DeMille, Cecil B.
    294
  • Devil’s Disciple, The
    162
  • Dickens, Charles
    250
    ,
    310
    ,
    318
  • Die Fledermaus
    313
  • Dieterle, William
    140
  • Dietrich, Marlene
    75
    ,
    188
  • Djablak, see Zhablak
  • Dr Dolittle
    27
  • Dodd, Ken
    314
  • Donner, Richard
    59
    ,
    60
  • Douglas, Kirk
    173
    ,
    174
    ,
    198
  • Douglas, Sarah
    56
  • Douglas-Home, Alec
    263
  • Drake, Francis
    294
  • Dresden
    116
    ,
    117
  • Dreyfuss, Richard
    284
  • Drogheda
    118
  • Dublin
    18
  • Dumas, Alexandre
    3
    ,
    9
    ,
    11
    ,
    12
    ,
    16
    ,
    237
  • Dunaway, Faye
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    87
    ,
    280
  • Durham Light Infantry
    189
    ,
    190
  • Durning, Charles
    208
  • Dyke, Greg 219fn.

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