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CONTENTS

1 Introduction

2 J.H.Plumb’s Curriculum Vitae

3 Preface: Jack Plumb: A Personal Memoir from 1949 to 2001

4 Plumb in Leicester: Family Upbringing and Schooling

5 Plumb’s Coming to terms with Cambridge

6 Plumb’s Early Research and his later Publications

7 Plumb, Elton and Chadwick and the Regius Chair

8 Plumb the Possessive Father Figure

9 Plumb’s Reputation as Patron, Promoter and Fixer

10 Plumb in Fiction

11 Plumb’s Painted Portraits

12 Plumb and the Secret World at Bletchley Park

13 Plumb: his tastes, his collections and his enthusiasms

14 Plumb’s wealth – Its Sources and its Size

15 Plumb as a prolific Editor

16 Plumb’s American Journalism – American Heritage and Horizon

17 Plumb’s Apolaustic Lifestyle: Expensive Cars and their Destruction

18 Plumb the Big Spender: Houses, Holidays and other Indulgences

19 Plumb and his New Friends: A Case of Social Mobility

20 Plumb’s Reputation as a Scholar and Walpole III

21 Plumb’s Health and his Declining Productivity

22 Plumb’s Critique of Cambridge Historians

23 Plumb’s Dedications

24 Plumb’s Other Writing

25 Plumb’s Other Pupils and Plumb the Novelist Manqué

26 Plumb’s Changing Political Beliefs and the Blunt Affair: from Communist Sympathiser to Combative Tory

27 Plumb’s Generosity to his Staff, his Friends and Himself

28 Plumb and his Wine

29 Plumb and Philanthropy

30 Plumb’s Very Private Love Life: Sex, Secrets and Subterfuge

31 Plumb and Friendship

32 Plumb’s Posthumous Sale in 2002

33 Plumb’s Secret Daughter and his Attitude to Marriage and Children

34 Plumb’s 90th Birthday: a Symbol of Old Age and the Black Years

35 Plumb and his Mastership of Christ’s in Context

36 Plumb and Public Recognition: the film If and Desert Island Discs

37 Plumb’s Changing Attitude to his Pupils

38 Plumb: the End of Life, his Death, his Burial and a Memorial Dinner

39 Plumb and his Legacy: Historian and Teacher of Historians

40 Acknowledgements