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A.
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Davies, Anne

À la Recherche du Temps Perdu
(Proust)
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see also Remembrance of Things Past

Abbey National
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Accord
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Action Aid
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Acton, Harold
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Adam, Ken
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Adam Smith Institute, London
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Adams, Richard
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Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool: not all that it’s cracked up to be
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Adler, Larry
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Afternoon Off
(Bennett)
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Agate, James
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Age of Chivalry exhibition, Royal Academy: curious graffiti at
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Ages of Man, The
(Gielgud one-man show)
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Aids
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Ailes, Anne
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Airedale Hospital, Keighley
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Alcoholics Anonymous: AB inveigled into attending
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Aldwych Theatre, London
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Alice in Wonderland
(Carroll)
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Alice in Wonderland
(Miller production)
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All Day on the Sands
(Bennett)
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All Souls College, Oxford
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Allen, Woody
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Alternative Service Book
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American Friendship Society
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Amis, Kingsley
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Anderson, David
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Anderson, Lindsay
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Andreev, Leonid
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Andrews, Anthony
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Andrews, Eamonn: Miss Shepherd offers to stand in for
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Animal Farm
(Orwell)
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Anna Karenina
(Tolstoy)
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Anouilh, Jean
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Any Questions
(radio programme)
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A. P. Watt Ltd,
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Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London
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Appleby horse fair
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Aquileia
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Archer, Lord
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Arles
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Armley, Leeds
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Armley Baths, Leeds
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Armley Library, Leeds
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Armley National School, Leeds
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Armstrong, Alun: sudden change of character of, on opening a Gideon’s Bible
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Army Cadet Corps: persistence of puttees in
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Arundel Castle
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‘Arundel Tomb, An’ (Larkin)
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Ashcroft, Dame Peggy
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Ashdown, Paddy
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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; distasteful Leonardo in
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Asylums
(Goffman)
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‘Aubade’ (Larkin)
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Auden, W. H.
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Auden: An American Friendship
(Miller)
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Auden in Love
(Farnan)
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Austen, Jane
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Austwick
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Avedon, Richard
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Axelrod, George
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Bachardy, Don
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Bacon, Francis
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Baddeley, Hermione
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Bader, Douglas
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Bagnold, Enid
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Bailey, Paul
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Baker, Sir Herbert
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Baker, Kenneth
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Baker, Stanley
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Balkan Trilogy
(Manning)
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Balliol College, Oxford
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; ugliness of
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Bamber, David
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Banbury
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Banbury, Frith
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Bancroft, Sir Squire
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Barbie, Klaus
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Barker, Howard
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Barnes, Julian
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Barnett, Lady Isobel: AB’s sister in suffering
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Bart, Lionel
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Bassett, John
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Bates, Alan
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Baxter, Keith
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Bayley, John
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BBC
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and
A Day Out
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Home Service
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Light Programme
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Radio
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Third Programme
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BBC1
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BBC2
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BBC Northwest
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Beaton, Cecil
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Beckett, Samuel
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Beckinsale, Richard
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Beeching, Dr: as thin end of an increasingly nasty wedge
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Beerbohm, Max
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Beeston, Leeds
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Beginning Again
(Woolf)
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Belfast
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Bell, Virginia
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Belle Isle, Leeds
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Bennett, Arnold (AB’s cousin)
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Bennett, Bill (AB’s uncle)
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Bennett, Geoff (AB’s cousin)
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Bennett, George (AB’s uncle)
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Bennett, Gordon (AB’s brother)
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in Second World War
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baptism
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and books
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and father’s dance-band phase
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in army cadets at Guildford
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Bennett, Jill
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Bennett, Jim (AB’s uncle)
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Bennett, Lilian (née Peel; AB’s mother)
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and books
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and brother Clarence
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in cafes
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desire to ‘mix’
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and education,
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evacuation to Wilsill
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Haworth visit 11;

in hotels
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meets T. S. Eliot
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and Oxford University
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in Weston-super-Mare
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Bennett, Walter (AB’s father)
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against social pretensions
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anniversary of death
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and books
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in cafes
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desire to ‘mix’
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and education
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employment
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and family’s evacuation to Wilsill
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grave of
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in hotels
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illness
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and Lilian’s sisters
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literary ambitions
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as musician
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and Oxford University
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Benson, A. C
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Benson, E. F.
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Benson, Sir Frank
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Bendey, Phyllis: as local-lass-makes-good
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Berenson, Bernard
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Berkeley nuclear power station
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Berkoff, Steven
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Berlin
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Berlin, Isaiah
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: and Ken Dodd
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Bernstein, Leonard
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Bernstein, Sidney
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Betjeman, John
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Bettany, Michael (Ministry of Defence employee)
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Better Class of Person: An Autobiography, A
(Osborne)
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Better Late
(Oxford Theatre Group revue)
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Betty’s Café, Leeds
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Beyond the Fringe
(Bennett, Cook, Miller and Moore)
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and AB’s Anglican sermon
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in America (1962)
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Bader and
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in Brighton
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first script onference
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in London
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second edition
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Big Breakfast, The
(television programme)
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Billington, Michael
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Bird, John
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Birt, John
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Birthday Party, The
(Pinter)
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Blackburn Cathedral
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Blackpool
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Blair, Tony
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Blake, William
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Blier, Betrand
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Bliss, Arthur
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Blockley, Gloucestershire
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Blomfield, Sir Reginald
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Bloomsbury Group
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Blunt, Anthony
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Blunt, Dorothy
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Blunt, Violet
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Blunt, Wilfrid
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BMA (British Medical Association)
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Bodleian Library, Oxford
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Bogarde, Dirk
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Bokassa, ex-Emperor of the Central African Republic
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Bolshoi Ballet
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Bolton disaster (1946)
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Book of Common Prayer
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Booker, Christopher
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Booker Prize
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Bootle
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Bosnia
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Boston Spa Tennis Club
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Bottomley, Virginia
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Bowles, Paul
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Bowman, Ruth
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Boxer, Mark
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Boyle, Andrew
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Bradbury, Ernest
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Bradford, W. Yorkshire
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Bradford football ground disaster
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Bradford Museum
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‘Bragg, Melvyn’
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Brahms, Johannes
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Brain, Roger
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Braine, John
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Bramley, Leeds
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Branagh, Kenneth
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Brasenose College, Oxford
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Brasserie Bofinger, Paris
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Brecht, Bertolt
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Brennan, Maeve
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Brenton, Howard
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Brewster, Barry
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Brideshead Revisited
(Waugh)
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Brien, Alan
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Briers, Richard
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Brighton, Sussex
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Brighton bombing (1984)
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Bris, Roger de
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Bristol RC Cathedral
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Bristol Children’s Hospital
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British Library, London
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Britten, Benjamin
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Brod, Max
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