Winstone - Events, dear boy, events a political diary of Britain from Woolf to Campbell

I would particularly like to thank the following for their help and generosity in allowing me to use their work: Giles Radice, Tony Benn, Chris Mullin, Deborah Bull, Gyles Brandreth, Paddy Ashdown, Oona King and Bloomsbury Publishing, Bernard Donoughue, Brian Eno, Christopher Gill, Lord Norwich, Philip Ziegler, Michael Spicer, Jim Wilson.

Two bodies were extremely efficient and took a great deal of trouble in locating and lending books or documents: the TUC Library Collections (at the London Metropolitan University) under the Librarian Christine Coates; and Bideford Library in North Devon (thanks to Devon County Council for preserving its service).

The Britten-Pears Foundation generously granted me use of Benjamin Britten, Journeying Boy: The diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 192838 edited by John Evans, Faber and Faber (2009); Letters from a Life 192339 and 193945 edited by Donald Mitchell and Philip Reed, Faber and Faber (1991).

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Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke 193945 edited by Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman, Weidenfeld and Nicolson (2001) by permission of David Higham Associates

Leo Amery, The Empire at Bay: Diaries 192945 edited by John Barnes and David Nicholson, Random House (1988) by permission of David Higham Associates

Paddy Ashdown, Diaries Volume One 198897 Allen Lane (2000); Volume Two 199799 Allen Lane (2001); Beyond Westminster, Simon & Schuster (1994)

Cecil Beaton, Diaries: 193944 The Years Between; 194448 The Happy Years; 194855 The Strenuous Years; 195563 The Restless Years; 196374 The Parting Years. Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1965, 1972, 1973, 1976, 1978) by kind permission of Rupert Crew Ltd

Tony Benn, Years of Hope 194062 (1994); Out of the Wilderness 196367 (1987); Office Without Power 196872 (1988); Against the Tide 197376 (1989); Conflicts of Interest 197780 (1990); End of an Era 198090 (1992); Free at Last 19912001 (2001); More Time for Politics 20012007 (2007); The Last Diaries 200710 (forthcoming) edited by Ruth Winstone; Hutchinson by kind permission of Tony Benn

Alan Bennett, Untold Stories Profile/Faber and Faber (2005)

Violet Bonham Carter, Champion redoubtable: Diaries and Letters 191445 (1998); Daring to Hope 194669 (2000) both edited by Mark Pottle, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. By kind permission of Aitken Alexander Associates on behalf of the Bonham Carter estate

Jimmy Boyle, The Pain of Confinement: Prison Diaries, Canongate (1984)

Gyles Brandreth, Breaking the Code, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1999); Something sensational to read in the train, John Murray (2009). By kind permission of Gyles Brandreth

Vera Brittain, Chronicle of Friendship 193239 (1986); Vera Brittains Diary 193945 (1993) edited by Alan Bishop. Victor Gollancz

Robert Bruce Lockhart, The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart Volume I, edited by Kenneth Young, Macmillan (1973)

Deborah Bull, Dancing Away 199798, Methuen (1998) By kind permission of Deborah Bull CBE and Methuen

Alexander Cadogan, Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan 193845 edited by David Dilks, Cassell (1971)

Alastair Campbell, The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries Hutchinson (2007). Reprinted by permission of the Random House Group Ltd

Barbara Castle, The Castle Diaries 196476 Macmillan (1980) by permission of David Higham Associates

Henry Chips Channon, The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon edited by Robert Rhodes James, Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1967)

Walter Citrine, The Mining Crisis and the National Strike Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 20 (2005)

Alan Clark, Diaries 19831992, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1993) 1993 Alan Clark; Into Politics: Diaries 197282, Weidenfeld and Nicolson edited by Ion Trewin (2000) 2000 The Estate of Alan Clark; The Last Diaries Diaries: 199299, Weidenfeld and Nicolson edited by Ion Trewin (2002) 2002 The Estate of Alan Clark. Jane Clarks Journal 2002 Jane Clark. By kind permission of Weidenfeld and Nicolson, a division of the Orion Publishing Group, London

Peter Clarney, diary manuscript in the TUC Library Collections with thanks to the Librarian of the Collections, London Metropolitan University

John Colville, The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 193955, Hodder and Stoughton (1985)

Robin Cook, Point of Departure, Simon and Schuster (2003)

Alfred Duff Cooper, The Duff Cooper Diaries 191551 edited by John Julius Norwich, Weidenfeld and Nicolson (2005) by kind permission of Lord Norwich

Noel Coward, The Noel Coward Diaries edited by Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley, Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1982) Graham Payn 1972. By kind permission of Weidenfeld and Nicolson, a division of the Orion Publishing Group, London

Richard Crossman, Minister of Housing and Local Government 196466 (1975); Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons 196668 (1976); Secretary of State for Health and Social Security 196870 (1977); Backbench Diaries 195164 (1981): all published by Hamish Hamilton and Jonathan Cape and edited by Janet Morgan

Edwina Currie, Diaries 198792 Little, Brown (2002) by kind permission of Little Brown Book Group

Iain Dale iaindale.blogspot.com By kind permission of Iain Dale

Hugh Dalton, Political Diary of Hugh Dalton 191840 and 194569 edited by Ben Pimlott, Random House (1987) reprinted by permission of the Random House Group Ltd and the London School of Economics and Political Science

Audrey Deacon, The Diary of a Wren, The Memoir Club (2001)

Bernard Donoughue, Downing Street Diary, Jonathan Cape (2005) reprinted by permission of the Random House Group Ltd

Blanche Dugdale, Diaries 193647, Valentine Mitchell (1973)

Brian Eno, A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Enos Diary, Faber and Faber (1996)

Hugh Gaitskell, Diary of Hugh Gaitskell 194556 edited by Philip Williams, Jonathan Cape (1983)

Christopher Gill, Whips Nightmare, The Memoir Club (2003) by kind permission of Christopher Gill

Joyce Grenfell, The Time of my Life: Entertaining the Troops her War time Journals edited by James Roose-Evans, Hodder and Stoughton (1989)

Alec Guinness, My Name Escapes Me, Hamish Hamilton (1996) by permission of David Higham Associates

Peter Hall, The Peter Hall Diaries Hamish Hamilton (1983) by kind permission of Peter Hall

Viviene Hall, extract from The Home Front ed Norman Longmate, Chatto and Windus (1981)

John Horner quoted in Forged in Fire: The history of the Fire Brigades Union edited by Victor Bailey, Lawrence and Wishart (1992), with thanks to the FBU

Tom Hurndall, The Only House Left Standing: The Middle East Journals, Trolley Books (2012) by kind permission of Anthony and Jocelyn Hurndall and Trolley Books

Roy Jenkins, European Diary, Collins (1989)

Thomas Jones, Whitehall Diary Vol. 1 191625, Vol. 2 192630 edited by Keith Middlemass, TUC books (1969) by kind permission of the OUP and TUC Publications

Oona King, House Music: The Oona King Diaries, Bloomsbury (2007), Oona King, courtesy of Bloomsbury Publishing plc

Alan Lascelles, Kings Counsellor Abdication and War: Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles edited by Duff Hart-Davis, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, London. The Estate of Sir Alan Lascelles 2006