| | | |
| A |
| actors |
| | Arthur, Jean, 65 |
| | Astaire, Fred, 38 |
| | Boyer, Charles, 9 |
| | Dunne, Irene, 9 |
| | Durbin, Deanna, 58 |
| | Grant, Cary, 65 |
| | Harker, Gordon, 94 |
| | Hayworth, Rita, 65 |
| | Hobson, Valerie, 49, 69 |
| | Olivier, Lawrence, 49 |
| | Richardson, Ralph, 49 |
| | Rogers, Ginger, 38 |
| | Sim, Alastair, 69 |
| air raid, 120 |
| | alert, 15, 51 |
| | barrage balloons, 46 |
| | prospects of, 69, 90, 99 |
| | shelter, 15, 67, 116 |
| | searchlights, 18, 38 |
| Air Raid Preparations (ARP), 10, 11, 15, 19, 36 |
| Athlone, Lord, 59 |
| Attlee, Clement, 56 |
| authors |
| | Allen, Carole, 79, 80, 117 |
| | Allport, Allan, 110 |
| | Austen, Jane, 46 |
| | Beardmore, George, 129 |
| | Bennett, Alan, vii, 62 |
| | Bergen, Amanda, 31 |
| | Booth Luce, Clare, 58 |
| | Cotterell, Anthony, 110 |
| | Dickens, Charles, 46 |
| | Donnelly, Peter, 129 |
| | Fielding, Henry, 46 |
| | Forster, E M, 22, 23 |
| | Garfield, Simon, 128 |
| | Gilbert, W S, 63 |
| | Hinton, James, 79, 128 |
| | Hoggart, Richard, 125 |
| | Horvath, Odon von 36 |
| | Huxley, Aldous, 60, 61, 109, 119 |
| | Last, Nella, 129 |
| | Lenin, V I, 120 |
| | Malcolmson, Patricia and Robert, 26, 110 |
| | Malcolmson, Robert, 129 |
| | Mitchison, Naomi, 129 |
| | Montagu, Ivor, 120 |
| | Partington, S V, 129 |
| | Pritt, D N, 112, 120 |
| | Reed, Douglas, 71 |
| | Richardson, Samuel, 46 |
| | Lawrence, D H, 61 |
| | Sassoon, Siegfried, 34, 36, 37 |
| | Searby, Peter, 129 |
| | Shaw, George Bernard, 59 |
| | Thucydides, 63 |
| | Waugh, Evelyn, 21 |
| | Wing, Sandra Kong, 128 |
| | Wilder, Thornton, 53 |
| | Woolf, Leonard, 46 |
| | Wright, Doreen, 129 |
| B |
| Baltic, 35 |
| Basque children, charity, 50 |
| Belgium, 46, 48 |
| Berlin, 45 |
| Berne, 75 |
| Birkenhead, 95 |
| Birmingham, 68, 72, 73, 89, 90 |
| black-out, |
| | beauty of night sky, 38, 42, 51 |
| | black-out, army, 107 |
| | black-out police (military), 98 |
| | difficulties early in war, 41, 42, 64, 65, 72 |
| | domestic arrangements for, 11, 19, 25, 43 |
| | road accidents, 32, 42 |
| | source of stress when alone, 42 |
| Bolton, 79, 97, 98 |
| bombing, 81, 91, 93, 99, 104, 112, 119, 120 |
| in the Midlands, 89, 93 |
| Bonham Carter, Lady Violet, 31 |
| books |
| | Among You Taking Notes: The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison, 129 |
| | Browned Off and Bloody Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War, 1939-1945, 110 |
| | Cambridge at War: The Diary of Jack Overhill 1939-1945, 129 |
| | Civilians at War: Journals 1938- 1946, 129 |
| | The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace, 129 |
| | Eyeless in Gaza, 60 |
| | A Free-Spirited Woman: The London Diaries of Gladys Langford, 1936-1940, 26 |
| | Insanity Fair, 71 |
| | A Local Habitacion, 125 |
| | Love and War in London: A Woman’s Diary 1939-1942, 129 |
| | The Mass Observers: a History, 1947-1949, 128 |
| | Modern Poetry, 119 |
| | Mrs Milburn’s Diaries: An Englishwoman’s day-to-day reflections, 1939-1945, 129 |
| | Mrs Miles’ Diary: The Wartime Journal of a Housewife on the Home Front, 129 |
| | Must the War Spread?, 112, 120 |
| | Nella Last’s War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 129 |
| | She Could Have Loved Him No More: The Wartime Diary of Doreen Wright, 129 |
| | Sherston’s Progress, 37 |
| | Shire Edge, 79, 80, 117 |
| | A Soldier in Bedfordshire 1941- 1942, 110 |
| | The Traitor Class, 120 |
| | The View from the Corner Shop: The Diary of a Yorkshire Wartime Shop Assistant, Kathleen Hey, 129 |
| | Three Surrey Diarists, 129 |
| | Undertones of War, 37 |
| | War Begins at Home, 70, 71 |
| | What is to be Done?, 120 |
| | What! No Morning Tea?,110 |
| Boots (chemist), 83, 95 |
| Bournemouth, 29 |
| Bradford, 60 |
| British Broadcasting Corporation, Archive Centre, 37, 48 |
| British Empire, 33, 43 |
| Bulgaria, 93 |
| C |
| Cambridge, 21, 63 |
| capitalism, attitudes towards, 100, 112 |
| Chamberlain, Neville, 73 |
| Chapel, 95 |
| Cheltenham, 75 |
| China, 54-5, 62 |
| chocolates, 18, 26 |
| Ceylon, 8 |
| cigarettes, 87 |
| Churchill, Winston S, 46, 97 |
| cinema, 26, 64, 109 |
| | male behaviour in, 26 |
| | Cottage Road, 49, 61, 62, 69 |
| | Regal Theatre, Cross Gates, 58 |
| Civil Defence Office, 68 |
| Civil Service, 41 |
| Class, 120 |
| coffee, 19, 20, 21, 60 |
| composers |
| | Bach, 69 |
| | Beethoven, 32, 52, 55 |
| | Brahms, 69 |
| | Chopin, 19 |
| | Mozart, 47, 51, 61 |
| | Schubert, 61 |
| | Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 63 |
| conscientious objectors, |
| | attitudes to, 35, 38, 52, 59, 60, 97, 100, 113 |
| | treatment of, 35, 36, 47, 97, 98 |
| conscription, 37, 80, 109 |
| Coventry, 101 |
| Cricklewood, 79 |
| Curzon, Leonard, 40-1, 66, 67 |
| Czechoslovakia, 8 |
| D |
| D, Lord, Tony’s boss, 72 |
| Daily Express, 90, 94, 108 |
| Daily Herald, 90 |
| Daily Mirror, 90, 94, 108 |
| Daily Sketch, 90, 94 |
| Daily Worker, 120 |
| Deal, 29 |
| Denmark, 26, 72 |
| dentists, 95, 109, 114 |
| diarists, characteristics of, 19 |
| Dewsbury, 21 |
| Doncaster, 20 |
| Driberg, Tom, 108 |
| Dulwich, 27, 46 |
| Dunfermline, 29 |
| Dunkirk, 116 |
| E |
| earthquakes, 72 |
| Edinburgh, University of, 7, 82 |
| Ealing, 24 |
| Egypt, 93 |
| Europe, a federation of, 43 |
| evacuation, |
| | of children, 26 |
| | of civil servants, 39, 40 |
| F |
| Feare, Patricia, 79, 90, 94, 103, 112, 114, 117, 121 |
| Finland, 37, 52, 53, 56, 58, 60, 71 |
| films |
| | Love Affair, 9 |
| | Only Angels Have Wings, 65 |
| | Q Planes, 49 |
| | This Man in Paris, 69 |
| | The Mikado, 61, 63 |
| | The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, 38 |
| | Three Smart Girls Grow Up, 58 |
| Folkestone, 75 |
| food |
| | army, 84 |
| | butter, 37, 51 |
| | cake, 23, 29, 47 |
| | chicken, 23, 43 |
| | Christmas cake, 51, 52 |
| | Christmas dinner, 119 |
| | Christmas pudding, 50, 51 |
| | ice-cream, 87 |
| | jam and jelly making, 49, 70 |
| | rabbit, 23 |
| | toast, 26 |
| France, 35, 60, 66, 72, 79, 81 |
| friends (see also socializing) |
| | Escott, Wynne, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 24, 65 |
| | Luft, Friedrich, 17, 33 |
| | Masson, David, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 28, 32, 43, 45, 59, 60, 66, 67, 69, 70, 73 |
| | visits with, 6 |
| Fulham, 18 |
| G |
| gas, attacks, 99, 113 |
| gas masks, 10, 13, 25, 28 |
| Gelsenkirchen, 93 |
| Germany, 10, 13, 27, 30, 35, 43, 49, 57, 58, 60, 64, 66, 72 |
| | Kiel Canal, 20 |
| Germans, |
| | attitudes to, 28, 30, 32, 33, 34, 48, 71, 100 |
| | Nazi atrocities, 71 |
| Goodwin Sands, 29 |
| Greece, 93, 97, 108, 109, 111 |
| groceries, |
| | rising prices, 52, 70 |
| | scarcity, 50, 51, 52 |
| | Spam, 72 |
| H |
| hairdresser, 38, 69, 109 |
| Halifax, Viscount, 97 |
| Hamburg, 39 |
| Harrisson, Tom, 122 |
| Harrogate |
| | Air ministry evacuated to, 39, 40-1, 65, 67 |
| | visits to, 40 |
| Herne Bay, 66 |
| Hitler, 29, 30, 36, 38, 39, 48, 52, 63, 66, 71, 93, 120 |
| I |
| Illustrated, 108 |
| IRA, 41 |
| Italy, 34 , 62, 93, 109 |
| J |
| Japan, 62, 63 |
| Jews |
| | anti-semitism, 30-1, 60, 125 |
| | attitudes to, 30, 31 |
| | Leeds Jewish community, 124, 125 |
| | support for, 30-1, 33 |
| Joyce, William (Lord Haw Haw), 39, 60, 65, 69 |
| K |
| Kent, Duke of, 29 |
| King and Queen, attitudes towards, 32 |
| L |
| languages, 28, 111 |
| Latin names, in medicine, 100 |
| Leeds by-election, 13 March 1940 (see Appendix A), 123-5 |
| Leeds,2, 81 |
| | Aire, River, 75 |
| | Beeston, 13 |
| | bookshop, 120 |
| | buses, 41 |
| | cars, 54 |
| | ‘DDL’ (dear dirty Leeds), 75 |
| | Far Headingley, 7 |
| | First World War and, 57, 61 |
| | Girls’ Friendly Society, St Mark’s Road, 112, 114 |
| | Grand Theatre, New Briggate, 45, 58, 70 |
| | Harewood Barracks, Woodhouse Lane, 80, 81, 81, 82, 83, 86, 118 |
| | Headingley Branch Library, 44, 50 |
| | Jacomelli’s Restaurant, Boar Lane, 114, 115 |
| | Kardomah Café, Briggate, 17, 18 |
| | Kirkgate Market, 44, 47 |
| | Kirkstall Abbey, 75 |
| | Leeds United, 95 |
| | Lewis’s, department store, 21, 22, 87, 117 |
| | marching through, 98 |
| | Marshall and Snelgrove, 20, 50 |
| | Meanwood, 61 |
| | places in, 8, 114 |
| | Registry Office, 117 |
| | restaurant, 117 |
| | shopping in, 21, 26, 28, 38, 39, 47, 49, 58, 64, 66, 120 |
| | spies in, 57 |
| | tea in, 16, 20, 21, 65 |
| | trains, 65, 80, 81 |
| | trams, 41, 81 |
| | University of, 7, 26, 69, 82 |
| | Weetwood, 61 |
| | YMCA, Albion Street, 116 |
| Leningrad, 56 |
| Lewisham, 117 |
| Liverpool, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93, 94, 95, 101, 104 |
| Liverpool, University of, 70 |
| London, 45, 46, 68, 79, 80 |
| London Gazette, 79 |
| loneliness, 27 |
| Loretto, 63 |
| M |
| McNamara, Desmond, 121 |
| Maginot Line, 46, 58, 63 |
| Manchester Guardian, 27, 43 |
| Manchester, 29 |
| Mass Observation (see also Appendix B) |
| | Archive, 2, 122 |
| | diary project, origins of, 36, 127 |
| | diary project, management, 50, 53, 68, 113, 117, 121 |
| | observers, 73, 127 |
| | | Novy, Henry (social investigator and diarist), 2, 79, 80, 105, 121 |
| | | Masson, David, 6, 16, 18, 19, 30, 69 |
| | | Ridge, Joan, 2, 5, 6, 11, 36, 50, 121 |
| | | Ridge, Tony, 5, 6, 8, 13, 50, 53, 121 |
| | | Leeds clothing shop proprietor, 64 |
| | | Leeds shopkeeper [Beeston], 15, 16, 27 |
| | | Otley housewife, 25, 50, 58 |
| | | Bradford housewife, 31 |
| | | Batley bank clerk, 46 |
| | role/mission, 6 |
| military (soldiers) |
| | absence without leave, 91, 94, 114 |
| | army life, 87, 88, 89, 98, 99, 101, 104, 113, 121 |
| | basic training, 84, 90, 91, 100 |
| | blackout duty, 96, 97, 98 |
| | bombs, 99 |
| | boots, 85, 87, 100, 105 |
| | church parades, 87, 88, 97 |
| | comradeship, 100 |
| | grievances, 88, 96, 105 |
| | home, 92, 99 |
| | inoculations, 84, 86, 90, 91, 93, 103, 105, 112, 118 |
| | inspection, 107 |
| | kit, 105, 107 |
| | leave, 107, 111, 114 |
| | lectures, 100, 106 |
| | letter writing, 88, 93, 108, 111 |
| | marching, 98, 99, 110, 111 |
| | medical training, 111, 112 |
| | military law, 89, 114 |
| | missing civilian life, 87, 88, 99 |
| | morale, 99, 110 |
| | music, 109 |
| | NCOs, 85, 91, 96, 101, 102, 103, 105, 109, 111, 113, 114, 118 |
| | nurse, 111 |
| | officers, 84, 86, 90, 96 , 100, 103 |
| | parades, 89, 92, 106, 107 |
| | pay, 103 |
| | physical training, 99, 100, 101, 102, 113 |
| | pubs, 88, 98, 109 |
| | singing, 91 |
| | sport, 96, 99, 101, 109 |
| | swearing, 110 |
| | tedium, 96, 104 |
| | tests, 89 |
| | tiredness, 107 |
| | saluting, 84, 96 |
| | service abroad, 99 |
| | uniform, 84, 87, 90, 92, 107, 109 |
| | war news, 99 |
| | wives and girlfriends, 92, 95 |
| | work, 110 |
| military units; see also Royal Air Force |
| | Army Postal Service, 33, 35, 47 |
| | ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service), 69, 85 |
| | British Expeditionary Force, 72, 81 |
| | Green Howards, 116 |
| | Intelligence Corps, 111 |
| | NAAFI, 107, 108 |
| | Northern Command, 98 |
| | Officer Cadet Training Unit, 80 |
| | Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), 70, 80, 81, 97, 98, 100, 102 |
| | Royal Corps of Signals, 96 |
| | Royal Engineers, 80 |
| | Royal Ordnance Corps (ROC), 96, 102 |
| | Royal Tank Corps, 41, 80, 102 |
| | Territorial Army, 9 |
| | see also conscientious objectors, treatment of, |
| mine disaster, 29 |
| miners, 83, 91, 94, 95, 103, 106, 111 |
| Molotov, Vyacheslav, 34, 35 |
| Morrison, W S, 37 |
| Munich, 48 |
| music, 37, 56 |
| N |
| neighbours, |
| | tea with, 29, 57, 64 |
| | maid, Alice, 14, 15 |
| | views of, 10, 38-9, 40, 69, 72 |
| | visits with, 11, 14, 47, 50, 51 |
| Netherlands, 46, 47, 48, 49, 66 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne, 80 |
| News Chronicle, 90, 94 |
| Norway, 19, 72 |
| Novy, Henry (social investigator), |
| | background,2, 79 |
| | birthday, 108 |
| | commission, 96, 101 |
| | education, 115 |
| | fiancé (Patricia Feare, later spouse), 79, 90, 94, 103, 113, 121 |
| | friends, 119 |
| | kit, 81, 87 |
| | letter-writing, 94 |
| | lodgings, 104, 111, 112, 118 |
| | marriage, 112, 114, 115, 117, 121 |
| | military call-up, 80 |
| | NCOs, 81, 83, 96 |
| | pleasure in early married life, 117 |
| | shorthand writing, 106 |
| | views of the military, 107-13 |
| O |
| Old Vic Theatre Company, 26, 45, 46 |
| Otley, 25, 50 |
| Oxford, 21, 33, 41, 79 |
| P |
| pacifism, 97 |
| Paris, 24, 27, 58, 59 |
| plays, |
| | Judgement Day, 36 |
| | Romeo and Juliet, 46 |
| | The Women, 58, 60 |
| Poland, 10, 11, 12, 33, 35, 38, 71 |
| Pope, the, 97 |
| poppy, 47, 50 |
| Press, attitudes towards, 112 |
| Profumo, John, 69 |
| pubs, 88, 95, 96, 98 |
| R |
| radio |
| | Band Wagon, 40, 60 |
| | BBC, 14, 19, 27, 28, 32, 34, 36, 37, 40, 47, 50, 51, 52, 56, 59, 61, 65, 67, 73 |
| | foreign, 39, 59 |
| | ITMA, 55, 56 |
| Ramsgill, 40 |
| rationing, |
| | manipulation of supplies, 51, 52 |
| | shortages of food, fuel, 26, 31, 37, 40, 50 |
| Red Cross, 95 |
| relatives (of the Ridges) |
| | Kathleen (sister of Joan), 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 25 |
| | Elizabeth [Betty] Salatin (sister of Tony), 24 |
| | John (brother of Joan), 11, 16, 20, 30, 55, 65, 74 |
| | | fiancé (Peggy Reeves), 20, 74 |
| | mother (of Joan), 9, 46, 47, 50 |
| | Messenger, Julia (daughter), 6, 12, 31 |
| | Ridge, Tony (son), 5, 6 |
| | Robert Sage (Joan’s father), 39 |
| | Yves (French brother in law), 24, 27, 34, 39, 60 |
| Ridge, Joan, |
| | birthday, 69 |
| | children, 14, 74 |
| | diary writing, 25, 53, 68 |
| | health, 47 |
| | hopes for the future, 68, 74 |
| | joys of family, 47 |
| | knitting, 59 |
| | marriage, 27, 38, 49, 50, 51, 73 |
| | personal history, 2, 16, 27, 39 |
| | pregnancy, 74 |
| Ridge, Tony, |
| | career, 64, 68, 75 |
| | reserved occupation, 51, 54, 74 |
| | diary writing, 23, 46, 63 |
| | personal history, 12, 14, 16, 35, 46, 73, 75 |
| | political attitudes, 19, 54 |
| Roman Catholicism, 30, 87, 97 |
| Royal Air Force (RAF), 11, 20, 30, 55 |
| Russia (and Soviet Union), 25, 33, 34, 37, 43, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 66, 72, 91, 100, 121 |
| S |
| Scotland, 14, 26 |
| Sheffield, 120 |
| Sheridan, Dorothy, 122, 129 |
| ships |
| | City of Flint, 40 |
| | HMS Ark Royal, 65 |
| | HMS Courageous, 24 |
| | Gneisnau, 55 |
| | HMS Hood, 65 |
| | Rawalpindi, 55 |
| | HMS Repulse, 65 |
| | Scharnhorst, 55 |
| Sicily, 63 |
| | socialising, by the Ridges, |
| | | with friends, 8, 12, 13, 14, 16, 22-3, 24, 28, 64, 65, 66 |
| | | with neighbours, 29, 47, 64 |
| songs, 92 |
| | ‘Begin the beguine’, 92 |
| | ‘Berkeley Square’, 91, 92 |
| | ‘Down Mexico Way’, 91 |
| | ‘Home sweet home’, 92 |
| | ‘If I was to fall in love again’, 92 |
| South Shields, 62 |
| Spain, 62 |
| Spanish relief charity, 50 |
| Stroud, 24 |
| Suñer, Rámon Serrano, 93 |
| Swinton, Major-General Sir Ernest, 48 |
| Sydenham, 46, 68, 74 |
| T |
| table tennis, 95, 113 |
| teas, 16, 26, 113 |
| | Yorkshire high teas, 21 |
| telephone, 102, 106, 113 |
| Territorial Army, 9 |
| Theatre, barracks, 94 |
| The Times, 46, 88, 90 |
| Time, 26, 28, 33 |
| Turkey, 71, 72, 93 |
| U |
| USA, 56 |
| United States of Europe, belief in, 33 |
| U-Boats, 29, 108, 109, 112 |
| V |
| venereal disease, 102 |
| W |
| Wakefield, 111, 113, 119 |
| walks, 20, 21, 23, 31, 34, 35, 37, 41, 51, 52, 55, 56, 59, 61, 66, 67 |
| war (see also alerts, black-out, rationing), |
| | anxieties about, 53, 59, 61 |
| | declaration of and reaction to, 54, 56, |
| | searchlights, 18 |
| Worcester, 79 113, 117 |
| women, working, 93, 109 |
| Y |
| Yorkshire Post, 58, 59, 70 |
| YMCA, 85, 87, 97 |
