SUBJECT INDEX TO UNPUBLISHED DIARIES

The references are to item number.

A.

Accountants, 46, 370, 707, 801, 842

Ack-Ack, (Anti-Aircraft Defences), 664

Acton, Middx, 634, 649, 807

actors, 140, 261, 397, 451, 487, 497, 675

actuary, 841

agricultural worker, 768

Air Ministry, 717, 824, 865

air raids, 617, 633, 655–6, 659–60, 662, 664, 716–22, 724, 733–8, 740, 775–9, 782, 784–5, 787–92, 794, 796, 798, 821–3, 827, 838, 849, 854–61

aircraft engineer, 773

aircraft factories, 824, 827, 837

ambulance staff, 669, 726, 750, 825

American visitors, 47, 52, 71, 74, 82, 100, 103, 107, 126, 139, 163, 191, 247, 253–4, 266–7, 299, 331, 333, 347, 357, 360, 362, 381, 394, 420, 446, 464, 480–1, 484, 486, 519, 521, 558, 575, 596, 618, 653, 658, 721

antiquaries, 50, 57, 61, 129, 157, 221, 312, 359, 364, 415, 478, 490, 495, 569, 587

antislavery meetings, 225, 299

ANZAC Day celebrations (1916), 604

apprentices, 72, 79, 366, 582

archaeologist, 244

architects, 236, 337, 366, 415, 454, 500, 515, 677, 700, 769

army agents, 313

army cadet, 462

army personnel, officers, 205, 232, 278, 305, 428, 430, 434, 452, 467, 529, 531, 595, 598, 604–5, 609, 618, 622, 628, 648, 739, 823, 841, 860; other ranks, 17, 23–4, 576, 597, 601–3, 606, 608, 611–16, 625, 682, 767, 774, 799, 807, 810, 831

ARP workers, 669, 736, 809, 856; wardens, 641, 664, 686, 716, 789, 798, 818, 821

art exhibitions, 174, 190, 262, 274, 284, 301, 405; sales, 157

Art Workers' Guild, 500

artists, 4, 122, 177, 220, 262, 271, 297, 346, 383, 456, 493, 537, 541, 635, 668, 725, 735, 763, 872

astrologers, 21

astronomers, 84, 86, 303, 321

auctioneer, 210

Australian Army personnel, 595, 597, 602–04, 612–13, 615–16, 625, 628

Australian Broadcasting Commission, 656

Australian National Library, 877

Australian visitors, 411, 551, 563, 657, 871, 877, 880

B.

Baby care, 509

ballet, 870

Balls Pond, 398

Bank of England, 333, 581, 588

bankers, 95, 308, 371, 375, 498, 546, 580–1, 588, 649, 714, 744, 790

Baptists, 81, 208

Barking Abbey School, 548

Barnard's Inn, 277

Barnes, Surrey, 220, 685

Barnet, Herts, 385, 739

Bartholomew Close, 29

Battersea, Surrey, 562

Battle of Britain (1940), 775

beadle, 535

Beckenham, Kent, 272, 701–2, 762, 791

Belmont, Surrey, 809

Bedchamber, ladies of the, 37, 166, 281

Bedfordshire, 66, 284, 409, 525, 579

Bentham, Jeremy, 274

Berkeley Square, 529

Berkshire, 32, 121, 389, 648

Bethlehem Hospital, 365

Bethnal Green, Middx, 582

Bexley, London borough, 643

bibliographer, 556

bicycling, 520, 569, 873

Blackfriars Bridge, 86

Blackheath, Kent, 262, 678

Blitz, see Air raids

Bloomsbury, 7

Bloomsbury Dispensary, 378

Boer War peace celebrations (1902), 485

bomb damage, 649, 718, 724, 735, 738, 775, 777, 787, 827

book collectors, 39

book restorer, 379

bookkeepers, 666

booksellers, 149, 285, 442, 650

bookstall assistant, 748

botanists, 19, 151, 316, 359

Bow, Middx, 28, 494, 515

Boy Scouts, 723

Brasenose College, Oxford, 154

Brazil, visitor from, 372

Bread Street, 62

Brentford, Middx, 176, 340

bricklayer, 791

bridges, 86, 236, 262, 799

British Broadcasting Corporation, 583

British Library of Political and Economic Science, 599

British Museum, 75, 86, 204, 244, 326, 337, 357, 365, 372, 405, 556, 855

Brixton, Surrey, 327, 370, 522, 735

Brixton Prison, 836

Brockley, Kent, 751

Broderers' Company, 303

Bromley, Kent, 762

Brompton Hospital, 418

Brook Hospital, 788

Brunel, Sir Marc Isambard, 283

Buckinghamshire, 152, 341, 676, 769, 777

builders, 427, 545

Burlington Street, 227

bus driver, 733

by-election, 582

C.

Cabinet maker, 200

cable-laying, 396

Camberwell, Surrey, 167, 327, 370, 423, 516, 738

Cambridgeshire, 106, 287, 329, 353, 674, 683, 703, 744, 846

Camden, London borough, 640

Canadian Press Agency, 775

canal boats, 276

canteen workers, 780, 827

Canterbury, archbishop of, 27, 530

Care Committee, 710

Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, 784

cashier, 489

Caterham, Surrey, 778

Catford, Kent, 520, 791

Catholics, 298, 555

Central Telegraph Office, 718

Chancery, court of, 277

Chancery Lane, 441

chaplains, hospital, 69, 349; military, 823; prison, 216; royal, 644; ship, 412

Charing Cross Road, 442, 550

charity and charitable work, 61, 95, 190, 228, 289, 377, 398, 418, 424, 446, 479, 574, 592, 641

Charity Organisation Society, 641

Charterhouse, 19

Chartism, 294

Cheapside, 259

Chelsea, Middx, 40, 349, 470, 584, 764, 789, 844

chemists, 692, 808

Cheshire, 16, 18, 207, 276, 392

Cheyne Walk, 470

childbirth, 174, 373, 382, 485, 503, 509

children, 108, 172, 176, 225, 240, 265, 269, 306, 386, 407, 413, 440, 462–3, 489, 495, 506, 518, 539, 552, 582, 607, 624, 631, 652, 654, 712, 720, 732, 762, 794, 836, 881–3; adults' anxiety about, 33, 169, 355, 377, 440, 491

Chingford, Essex, 494

Chiswick, Middx, 723

choirs, 532, 552

cholera, 438

Church Missionary Society, 171

churchgoing, 28, 36, 105, 117, 136, 198, 217, 284, 345, 353, 374, 396, 398, 455, 607, 641

cinema-going, 640

cipher, 130, 717

Citizens' Advice Bureau, 740

City of London, 5, 58, 165, 195, 201, 370, 409, 413, 425, 447, 535, 718, 735, 778, 793, 865

City of London Girls' School, 635

City of London Scientific Institution, 252

City Remembrancer, 165

civil engineers, 283, 396, 641, 798

civil servants, 407, 665, 679, 688, 694, 704, 709, 711, 766, 790, 797, 813, 833

Clapham, Surrey, 76, 221, 229, 262

Clapham General Dispensary, 320

clergy, 27, 34, 45, 64, 69, 75, 106, 110, 116, 129, 150, 171, 189, 216, 241, 243, 280, 347, 349, 365, 412, 426, 437–8, 448, 476, 480, 491, 504–5, 518, 521, 524, 567, 644, 660, 734, 787, 823, 866

clerks, 252, 277, 370, 494, 516, 532, 542, 649, 690, 708, 714, 744, 791, 831, 842, 849, 852, 865, 867

clockmaker, 156

clothiers, 21

clubs, 15

coachman, 433

coal merchant, 109

Cockspur Street, 174

coffee houses, 15, 36, 61–2, 74

Colonial Office, 330

commercial traveller, 772

concerts, 174, 267, 289, 321, 405, 482, 495, 553, 559, 633, 637

Congregationalists, 241, 342

conscientious objectors, 825

consumption (TB), 485

Consumption Hospital, Chelsea, 349

convents, 166, 785

Co-operative movement, 309, 516

corn dealer, 134

Cornhill, 156

Cornwall, 45, 51, 182, 278

costume historian, 636

court life, 37, 44, 54, 166, 195, 223, 267, 281, 289, 319, 332, 358, 529

Covent Garden theatre, 307

Cricklewood, Middx, 671

crime, 62

Crouch End, Middx, 655, 743

Croydon, Surrey, 210, 485, 523, 607, 630, 703–04, 837

Crystal Palace, 244, 285, 357, 365–6, 372, 405, 444

Cumberland, 211, 268

Custom House, 46

Daily Herald, 715, 840

Daily Telegraph, 786

D.

Dalston, Middx, 557

dancing, 190, 319, 870

Dawley, Middx, 33

D-Day (1944), 718, 860

deaf and dumb children, 399

death, 4, 33, 144, 176, 235, 291, 373, 379

debt, 36, 43

decorator, 705

department store staff, 577, 621

Deptford, Kent, 752

Derbyshire, 113, 178

despatch rider, 796

Devon, 222, 345, 359, 407, 417, 509, 721

Diamond Jubilee celebrations (1897), 485, 552

diary collector, 650

Dickens, Charles, 372

dioramas, 251, 262

diplomats, 362, 638, 797, 871

docks, 365, 481, 521

doctors, see medical practitioners

dog shows, 405

Dorset, 179, 346, 469, 709

drapers, 70, 72, 342, 540, 576, 819

draughtsman, 713

drawings, in diaries, 21, 303, 456, 856, 858

drivers, 603, 733, 750, 799

drug importer, 62

Drury Lane Theatre, 140, 307, 372

Dulwich, Surrey, 461

Dulwich College, 67

Durham, Co, 143, 181, 264

Dutch visitors, 112, 784

E.

Eagle Street Baptist meeting, 81

Ealing, Middx, 340, 342, 694–5, 700, 780, 819, 822, 881–3

Earls Court, 641, 724

East Ham, Essex, 800

East India Company, 128, 242, 268

East India merchant, 554

East London Group, writers, 582

East Sheen, Surrey, 686

Eastcote, Middx, 705

ecclesiologists, 426, 455

Edgware, Middx, 765

Edmonton, Middx, 183, 782

Egyptian visitor, 244

Electricity Board inspector, 754

Eliot, George, 356

Eltham, Kent, 624, 680, 792

Emergency Public Health Laboratory, 719

emigrants, 259, 296, 300, 304, 361, 504

employees' assocation, 812

Enfield, Middx, 50, 128, 183, 720, 850

Enfield County School, 720

engineers, 264, 283, 390, 391, 396, 641, 753, 774, 799

English Speaking Union, 571

engravers, 321, 373

ephemera, kept with diaries, 183, 354, 436, 495, 520, 581, 587, 634, 858

Epping Forest, 494

Essex, 10, 12, 141, 213, 334, 419, 435, 477, 494, 707, 712

estimator, 706

Etty, William, 262

evacuation, 732

evening classes, 621

Exchequer, 1

exciseman, 39

executions, 216

F.

Fabian Society, 516

fairs, 68

farmers, 205, 275, 363

feminists, 574

Festival of Britain (1951), 640, 873

film strip producer, 684

Finchley, Middx, 337, 785

Finsbury, 379

Fire of London (1666), 9

Fire Service, 780, 804, 861

firewatching, 733–4, 790, 796, 798, 820, 827

first aid classes, 827

First World War (1914–18), 576, 589–626; victory celebrations, 530, 595, 630

fishmonger, 184

Fleet Street, 321

flower shows, 405

food packing manager, 809

footman, 292

Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston, 451

Forest Hill, Kent, 843

Free French, 795

freemasons, 549, 819

French language, 23, 42, 145

Friends' Ambulance Unit, 825

Fulham, Middx, 364

funerals, Duke of Wellington, 365; Queen Victoria, 365, 553, 560

furriers, 582

G.

Gaelic language, 20

gardens, 68, 197, 413, 651, 763

genealogists, 415, 436, 440

German language, 75

glass, 461; optical, 321

Globe, The (newspaper), 237

Gloucester Place, 313

Gloucestershire, 476, 500, 755

Good Shepherd convent, Finchley, 786

Goodman's Fields, 312

Goodmayes, Essex, 810

Gordon riots (1780), 62, 80

Gower Street, 397, 441

Grays, Essex, 548

Great Exhibition (1851), 298, 345, 354, 359–61

Great Ormond Street Hospital, 388

Great Russell Street, 57

Great Western Railway, 532

Greek language, 40

Greenwich, Kent, 86, 135, 400, 731, 779

grocers, 79

Grosvenor Place, 526

Grosvenor Street, 190

Guardians, Boards of, 340

Gunnersbury, Middx, 395

Guy's Hospital, 112

H.

Hackney, Middx, 398, 535, 716, 856

Hammersmith, Middx, 166, 221, 229, 250

Hampshire, 12, 65, 434, 694, 837, 845

Hampstead, Middx, 221, 428, 722

Hampstead Heath, 279

Hampton Court, 161

Hampton Wick, Middx, 236

Hanover Square, 189–90

Hanwell Academic Institution, 188, 265

Harrow, Middx, 275, 627, 717, 766, 849, 868

Harrow School, 463

Hastings trial (1794–5), 124

Haverstock Hill, 442, 550

Hayes, Middx, 706, 811

Hazelbury Road School, 782

health, 4, 6, 33, 149, 174, 176, 189, 191, 194, 235, 284, 295, 314, 353, 355–6, 365, 377, 379, 438, 476, 484, 493, 545, 555, 567, 640–1, 664, 859

Hendon, Middx, 425, 717, 728, 864

Hendon Cottage Hospital, 728

heraldry, 415, 436

Herefordshire, 22, 293

Hertfordshire, 53, 92, 114–15, 197, 203, 322, 328, 513, 749, 762

Heseltine, Powell and Co, 512

Highams Park, Essex, 665

Highbury, Middx, 633

Highgate, Middx, 471, 646

Highgate Hospital, 737

Hillcroft College, Surbiton, 876

historians, 57, 65, 465, 531, 636

Hitchcock, Williams and Co, drapers, 576

Holborn, Middx, 591

Holborn Boys' School, 732

holidays, 92, 108, 176, 183, 225, 229, 240, 379, 418, 489, 532, 562, 576, 631, 873

Holloway, Middx, 466, 857

Holloway Prison, 585

Homerton, Middx, 489

Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, 580

Hornsey, Middx, 454, 652

horses, 68

horticulturalists, 302, 334

hosiery manufacturers, 303

hospitals, 69, 105, 112, 365, 418, 617–18, 728, 737, 788, 828, 862; military, 576, 590, 598, 600–1, 604, 605, 622, 626

housekeeper, 742

Houses of Parliament, 262, 276, 501, 521, 558, 867

housewives, 617, 655, 672, 678, 699, 703, 709, 722, 730, 747, 751, 758–9, 777, 792, 800, 803, 815, 817, 827, 869

Hoxton, Middx, 39, 384

Huntingdonshire, 150, 316, 353

I.

Ickenham, Middx, 767

Ignatius, Father, 478

Ilford, Essex, 539, 707

India, 128, 242, 268, 308, 338, 382, 389, 393, 434–5, 440, 452, 554, 648

Indian visitor, 501

industrialist, 42

Inner Temple, 15

insurance company employee, 627

International Exhibition (1862), 365, 414, 416–17, 420, 424

Irish visitors, 64, 110, 214, 237, 348, 364

Isle of Dogs, 791

Isleworth, Middx, 540, 768

Islington, Middx, 28, 379, 632, 826

Italian language, 152

Italian Opera, 307

J.

Jacobite rebellion (1715), 38

Jews, 568, 631, 740

journalists, 237, 402, 411, 431, 517, 534, 578, 592, 667, 681, 689, 691, 715, 730, 775, 786, 829, 840, 859

Judge and Jury Society, 357

K.

Kensington, Middx, 349, 456, 493, 541, 549, 589, 641, 858

Kent, 7, 189, 272, 290, 351–2, 370, 401, 520, 637, 701–2, 714, 747, 762–3, 814, 833

Kentish Town, Middx, 366

Kew, Surrey, 161, 851

King's Bench, court of, 267

King's Bench Prison, 80

King's College, University of London, 391, 878

King's Remembrancer, 549

Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, 561, 708, 820; bridge, 236

Knightsbridge, Middx, 258, 424

L.

Laboratory workers, 719, 811, 814

labourers, 361, 545

Ladbroke Grove, 798

Lambeth, Surrey, 406, 435, 606

Lancashire, 77, 399, 711, 804, 831, 863

lawyers, 4, 15, 57, 82, 135, 141, 145, 257, 267, 272, 323, 336, 357, 436, 441, 489, 549, 555, 610, 639, 696, 865

Leacroft Service Bureau, 698

League of Nations Union, 641

learned societies, 61

lecturer, 761

Lee, Kent, 383

Leeds, 774

Leicestershire, 90, 238, 249, 298

Leveson Gower family, 292

Lewisham, Kent, 355, 659

Lewisham Hospital, 737

lexicographer, 97

Leyton, Essex, 666

Leytonstone, Essex, 477, 494

librarians, 63, 75, 599

Library Association, 482

Lincoln's Inn, 4

Lincolnshire, 118–19, 367

linen draper, 342

Linnean Society, 151

Lisson Street, 577

livery companies, 303, 639

local government staff, 634, 640, 643, 696, 727

Lock Chapel, 365

London, City and Midland Bank, 546

London and County Bank, 498

London County Council, 461, 836

London Missionary Society, 347

London Survey Committee, 500, 544

Lord Mayor's Show, 77, 199, 225

lords lieutenant, 143, 639

lords mayor, 58, 566

Ludgate, 200

M.

Maida Vale, Middx, 759

Maltina Bakeries, 659

market gardening, 400

marriage, 174, 327, 371, 373, 382, 456, 485, 503; royal, 428

Marshalsea Prison, 43

Mass-Observation, 756; diarists, 665-714, 742-63, 765-74, 799-816, 829-34, 842-6, 850-3, 863, 867, 869

Mayfair, Middx, 249

mayor, of Croydon, 523

meals, 57, 145, 169, 180, 223, 291, 344, 352, 419, 488, 493, 608, 819

medical practitioners, 19, 71, 91, 103, 105, 112, 175, 206, 249, 258, 270, 320, 332, 338, 368, 378, 388, 424, 476, 502, 565, 645, 671, 739, 757, 821, 846

medical researcher, 702

Members of Parliament, 7, 18, 22, 40, 54, 120, 273, 284, 335, 346, 369, 432, 546, 618, 632

merchants, 55, 59, 62, 74, 76, 130, 139, 185

Merton, Surrey, 688

Methodists, 117, 406, 504, 792

Metropolitan Railway, 428

Mill Hill, Middx, 183, 748

mining engineer, 264

Ministry of Education, 636

Ministry of Food, 789

Ministry of Home Security, 796

Ministry of Supply, 831

Morden, Surrey, 869

Morris's Academy, Brentford, 176

Munich crisis (1938), 660, 662–4

munitions work, 793

museums, 521

musicians, 43, 67, 303, 559, 647, 727

Muswell Hill, Middx, 652, 744

N.

National Gallery, 262, 357, 405, 572

National Portrait Gallery, 572

Naval Training Film Section, 726

New Cross, Kent, 539

New Malden, Surrey, 812

New Zealand Army personnel, 608, 611

New Zealand visitors, 422, 872

Newgate Prison, 38, 123, 169, 216, 365

Newham, 854

Newington, Surrey, 28, 516

News Chronicle, 859

Nightingale Training School, 828, 862

Norbiton, Surrey, 567, 866

Norfolk, 166, 286, 368, 499, 593

Northamptonshire, 25, 72, 231, 458, 668, 670

Northern Assurance Co, 627

Northern Ireland, 813

Northumberland, 73, 354, 380, 514

Notting Hill, Middx, 781

Nottinghamshire, 303, 445, 510

nuns, 785

nursing, 424, 526, 626, 728, 737, 788, 795, 828, 862

O.

Office workers, 526, 573, 630, 659, 662–3, 697, 727, 747, 755–6, 793, 802, 804, 806, 816, 830, 843–4, 849, 853

Official Receivers in Bankruptcy, 516

Old Bailey, 365

opera-going, 86, 157, 251, 267, 274, 307, 337, 357, 405, 477, 482, 559

organists, 67, 447

orientalists, 75, 440, 741

Ottoman Bank, 375

overseas visitors, 8, 23–4, 35, 47, 52, 64, 71, 74, 82–4, 86, 100, 107, 110, 126, 139, 163, 191, 214, 237, 247, 253–4, 266–7, 299, 331, 333, 347–8, 357, 360, 362, 381, 394, 420, 446, 464, 480–1, 484, 486, 501, 519, 521, 543, 547, 551, 558, 563, 575, 595–7, 602–4, 608, 611–13, 615–16, 618, 625, 628, 653, 657–8, 721, 784

Oxfordshire, 63, 430, 629

P.

Paddington, Middx, 192, 733

Paddington Station, 532

panoramas, 271

park keepers, 279, 680

Park Street, 352

parks, 521, 727

Parliamentary Office, 542

parochial libraries, 39

Passmore Edwards Settlement, 526

Peckham, Surrey, 343, 522, 591

Pembrokeshire, 295

Penge, Surrey, 787

Peter Robinson Ltd, 577, 640

pets, 108, 120, 225, 306

philanthropy, see charity

photography, 321, 400, 634

physicist, 674

Piccadilly, 555

Pinner, Middx, 68

playwrights, 140, 250, 507

Plumstead, Kent, 753

poets, 582, 878

policeman, 760

politicians and statesmen, 13, 26, 80, 98, 104, 133, 144, 163, 169–70, 219, 228, 230, 291, 330, 335, 465, 484, 488, 492, 525, 585; see also Members of Parliament

political activities, 796

Poplar, Middx, 515

Portland Place, 295

Post Office, 447

Presbyterians, 136

Princess's Theatre, 397

printers, 20, 221, 285, 317, 623, 670

prison reform, 169, 193

prisoners, 38, 43, 80, 123, 169, 216, 585, 836

probation service, 806

psychologist, 845

public records, 57, 129, 312

publishers, 350, 404, 457, 482

Punch (journal), 402, 431, 493

Purley, Surrey, 710, 813

Putney, Surrey, 436, 570

Q.

Quakers, 21, 29, 31, 52, 72, 77, 79, 100, 132, 134, 164, 200, 225, 240, 825

R.

Radicals, 123

ragged school, 377

railways, 305, 369, 396, 494, 532, 630, 646; underground, 563

Rainham, Essex, 334

Ranelagh, 86

rationing and food shortages, 589, 633, 641, 655, 722, 724, 734, 790, 792, 817, 827, 864

Ravenscourt, 311

reading, 51, 79, 128, 149, 180, 198, 252, 301, 353, 532, 633, 878

Reform Bill demonstrations (1867), 388

refugees, Belgian, 592; Dutch, 785; German, 740

rescue squad worker, 791

rest centres, 796

Reuter's Press Agency, 592

Richmond, Surrey, 711

Romford, Essex, 609, 712

ropemaker, 143

Rosenberg, Isaac, 582

Royal Academy, 405

Royal Albert Docks, 481

Royal Albert Hall, 414

Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 624

Royal Asiatic Society, 440

Royal Air Force personnel, 734, 744, 865

Royal Air Force stations, 717

Royal Australian Air Force personnel, 824, 839, 848

Royal Exchange, 23–23, 326

royal family, see court life

Royal Institution, 199

Royal London Orthopaedic Hospital, 378

Royal Military Academy, 462

Royal Mint, 373

Royal Navy officers, 51, 236, 527, 726, 835, 847

Royal Panopticon, 365

Royal Society of Arts, 199

Ruislip, Middx, 770

Russell Square, 257

S.

Sadlers Wells Ballet, 870

St Bartholomew's, Islington, 826

St Ethelburga's, Bishopsgate, 437

St George's Hospital, 338

St John's, Penge, 787

St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, 378

St Margaret's, Westminster, 574, 644

St Mark's, Whitechapel, 438

St Martin's School of Art, 872

St Marylebone, 108

St Matthew's, Brixton, 327

St Matthias's, Hackney, 398

St Pancras, borough, 640

St Paul's, Dock Street, 365

St Paul's Cathedral, 23–4, 333, 426, 448, 491, 521, 552

St Paul's Churchyard, 576

St Paul's School, 473

St Peter's, Ealing, 780

St Peter's, Norbiton, 567

St Saviour's, Southwark, 280

St Thomas's Hospital, 112, 828, 862

sales representative, 735

Sanderstead, Surrey, 713, 783

Sandwich, Earl of, 9

school attendance inspector, 466

schools, 6, 176, 265, 353, 377, 406, 462–3, 466, 473, 501, 539, 548, 631, 635, 652, 654, 720, 732, 782, 795, 868

schoolteachers, 6, 12, 67, 315, 353, 399, 406, 473, 501, 548, 635, 661, 667, 669, 673, 676, 701, 712, 732, 743, 771, 782, 829, 868

scientific interests, 199, 252, 321, 353, 477

Scotland, 85, 136, 196, 306, 390, 831

scout leader, 723

screenwriter, 586

Second World War (1939–45), 549, 633, 641, 649, 655–57, 659–62, 664–864; victory celebrations, 634, 718, 779

secularist, 309

seed-crushing mill, 419

Selsdon, Surrey, 832

servant problems, 217, 295, 316, 373

servants, 229, 292, 433, 506

Seven Dials, 357

Shell Transport and Trading Co, 566

Shepherd's Bush, Middx, 619

sheriffs, of London, 5, 639; of Cheshire, 16

shoemaker, 334

shopkeepers, 406, 752

shops and shopping, 4, 10, 36, 64, 77, 224, 316, 324, 326, 365, 382, 589, 624, 648

Shoreditch, 39, 310

shorthand, 105–6, 129, 255, 272, 378, 783

Shropshire, 127

Sidcup, Kent, 714, 763, 814, 833

Siddons, Sarah, 435

sightseeing, 8, 23–4, 34–5, 42, 45, 47–49, 52, 60, 63–4, 72, 77, 82–4, 86–87, 106, 196, 199, 331, 333, 399, 480–1, 484, 486, 501, 518–19, 521, 539, 543, 547, 551, 575, 653

Slade School of Fine Art, 872

slater, 136

smallholding, 62

Soane Museum, 244

social workers, 693, 781, 875

Somerset, 11, 48, 209, 223, 472, 673, 838

soup kitchens, 418

South African visitor, 797

South Hampstead High School, 631

South London Liberal Jewish Synagogue, 568

South Sea House, 46

Southgate, Middx, 801, 842

Southwark, Surrey, 136, 516

Spain, 9

Special Operations Executive, 717

sports, 105, 195, 283, 289, 407, 477, 533, 560, 602

Stafford House, 292

Staffordshire, 234, 297

State Paper Office, 57

stationers, 259, 539, 621

Stationers' School, 865

Stepney, Middx, 109, 208

stockjobber, 512

Stoke Newington, Middx, 88, 225

store research director, 687

Strand, 313

Strawberry Hill, 344

Streatham, Surrey, 471, 553, 586, 682, 735

strikes, 582, 630

students, 35, 91, 103, 105, 154, 206, 270, 338, 378, 391, 441, 501, 549, 559, 668, 674, 682–3, 712, 762, 765, 821, 828, 846, 862, 872, 876

Suffolk, 5, 79, 138, 151, 155, 414, 435

suffragettes, 451, 574, 596

suffragist, 585

Sunday Schools, 489, 577

Surbiton, Surrey, 650, 653, 876

Surrey, 57, 157, 210, 318, 324, 377, 478, 630, 660, 703–5, 708, 710–11, 713, 730, 776, 779, 812–13, 815, 832, 851, 873, 876

surveyor, 318

Sussex, 475, 524, 736, 751, 768, 786

Sutton, Surrey, 660, 776

Swedish language, 8, 35

Swedish visitors, 8, 23–4, 35, 42

Swiss Cottage, 721

switchboard operator, 795

synagogues, 568, 631

T.

Tavistock Square, 324

tax officials, 268, 407, 813

Tea Propaganda Board, 755

Teddington, Middx, 731

telegraphs, 396

television, 640

Thames Church Mission, 365

Thames frost fair (1814), 173

Thames river warden, 649

Thames shipping, 282, 403, 490, 649

Thames Street, 539

Thames tunnel, 251

theatre-going, 84, 86, 111, 122, 124, 137, 146, 152, 157, 169, 190, 195, 199, 224, 267, 274, 284, 301, 326, 333, 337, 357, 396, 408, 419, 465, 473, 495, 498, 553, 575, 587, 608, 638, 640–1

theologian, 496

timber trade, 201

Times, The (newspaper), 517, 534, 578

tobacco merchant, 29

Tooting, 418, 656

topographers, 14, 149

Tottenham, Middx, 62, 134, 183, 794

Totteridge Park, Herts, 53, 114, 197

Tower of London, 23–4, 57, 86, 357

town planner, 500

trade unionists, 432, 640

traffic, 563

translator, 847

transport, 354, 563, 649, 733, 779

trials, 124, 365, 784

trumpeter, 43

Tsar's visit (1814), 176

turkish baths, 434

Twickenham, Middx, 560, 771

U.

Underwriters, 59

Unitarians, 206, 345

University of London, 165, 209, 391, 439, 878

Upminster, Essex, 213

Upper Norwood, Surrey, 444, 587, 718

Uxbridge, Middx, 363

V.

Vanderbilt Hotel, 555

Vauxhall, 86, 145, 224, 307

Victoria and Albert Museum, 636

Vic-Wells Ballet, 870

voluntary workers, 759, 827, 869

V-weapons, 655, 660, 717–18, 721–2, 737, 791, 827, 838, 855–60

W.

Waddon, Surrey, 630

Wales, 89, 148, 153, 202, 218, 239, 285, 378, 443, 610, 807

Waley, Arthur, 741

Wallington, Surrey, 478, 815

Walthamstow, Essex, 141, 545, 734

Wandsworth, Surrey, 406, 576, 879

Wandsworth Prison, 836

Wanstead, Essex, 31, 860

Wapping, Middx, 21

Ward, Humphrey, 526

Ward, Mary, 526

Warwick Square, 318

Warwickshire, 2, 260, 685

Waterloo Bridge, 798

weather, 29, 68–9, 175, 180, 189, 291, 457, 478, 532, 545, 555, 659

Wembley, Middx, 772–3, 827, 849

West Drayton, Middx, 816, 834

West Indies, 17

West Norwood, Surrey, 718

West Wickham, Kent, 290, 401

Westbourne Terrace, 308

Westfield College, University of London, 439

Westminster, Middx, 221, 574, 874

Westminster Abbey, 505, 521, 644

Westminster Bridge, 262

Westminster Hospital, 105

Westminster Review, 356

Westminster School, 6

Whipps Cross, 240

Whitechapel, Middx, 79, 312

Whitton, Middx, 84

widows, 194, 474, 584

wigmaker, 30

Wiltshire, 642, 677, 732, 768

Wimbledon, Surrey, 396, 427, 621

Wimbledon School, 462

Wimpole Street, 194

wine merchants, 324

Wolf, Lucien, 573

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps personnel, 620, 770

Women's Auxiliary Air Force personnel, 717

Women Drivers' Corps, 777

Women's Press Club, 578

Women's Royal Naval Service personnel, 779, 817

Women's Voluntary Service workers, 827, 838

wood brokers, 201

woodworking machinist, 850

woollen-draper, 70

Woolwich, Kent, 462, 624, 664, 774, 788

Worcestershire, 3, 403, 408, 410, 538, 569

Wormwood Scrubs, 777

Wormwood Scrubs Prison, 836

writers, 52, 140, 150, 189, 245, 250, 266, 294, 314, 350, 356, 376, 412, 442, 482–3, 507, 526, 582, 689, 691, 735, 741, 818, 878

Y.

Young Socialist League, 582

Yorkshire, 14, 60, 94, 131, 164, 206, 215, 224, 226, 251, 273, 536, 650, 775

Z.

Zangwill, Israel, 573

zeppelin raids, 592, 600, 620

zoo, 251, 365, 501