I am grateful to staff at the British Library, the Museum of London, the National Trust, the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, the National Farmers Union, the Imperial War Museum, English Heritage, the Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts, Cambridge University Library, the Open University Archive, the Archive of Faber & Faber and the Letterpress Collective, Bristol.
My sincere thanks to the following for their generosity in agreeing to be interviewed:
Gavin Bryars, John Cameron, Ian Cooper, Cymon Eckle, Bill Hamblett, Paul Hammond, Richard Hines, Arthur Jeffes, Alan Lodge, Members of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, Keith McIvor, Joe Rush, Rob St John, Anne Sears, David Sears, Matthew Smith, Carys Swanwick, Andrew Weatherall.
I am indebted to my editor Lee Brackstone for his dedication, energy and vision, and to my agent, Jonny Geller, for his counsel and patience. Over the course of writing, the following people were kind enough to offer their encouragement, insight and expertise. My heartfelt thanks to them all:
Martin Orbach, Juliet Noble, James Lynch, Sian Tucker, Jackson Tucker Lynch, Robbie Tucker Lynch, Calder Tucker Lynch, Teifi Tucker Lynch, Harriet Hand, Nick Hand, Susannah Walker, Mark Pilkington, Owen Hatherley, Christine Hamlett, Christopher Hamlett, Patrick Keiller, Matt Sewell, Gruff Rhys, Robin Turner, Jeff Barrett, Dan Papps, Paul Baillie-Lane, Jesse Ingham, Georgiana Treasure-Evans, Jacqui Rice, Laurence Bell, John Wilcox, Barbara Wilcox, Rob Jones, Rob Tyler and the hill farming community of Llandeilo Graban, Chris Sharp, Jon Savage, Ben Thompson.
My enduring gratitude and love to Sarah Chilvers and Elijah King.
And to Ralph Vaughan Williams: There never was a less typical ‘typical Englishman’.