The House of Alice Roughton: Cambridge Doctor, Humanist, Patron and Activist: From the Edwardian to the Contemporary

Contents Acknowledgments; PART ONEChapter 1Alice at 9 Adams Road 1. Cambridge, Summer 1978 2. Holidays at 9 Adams Road 3. Delayed Adolescence 4. Cambridge University Centre 5. Potato Omelette with Rotten Eggs 6. Clandestine Visit to a College Pool 7. My Uncle Josep Maria at 9 Adams Road 8. Alice's Illness and Death 9. The Book 10. The Power of Origins Chapter 2The First Tragedy: Accident in the Alps 1. Htel du Mont-Collon (Valais, Switzerland), April 2012 2. Htel du Mont-Collon (Valais, Switzerland), August 1898 3. The Accident Chapter 3The Hopkinsons 1. Manchester, second half of the nineteenth century 2. Cambridge University (1867 1871) 3. Evelyn Oldenbourg 4. Evelyn Hopkinson's Memoirs 5. John Hopkinson's Contribution to Advances in Electricity 6. A Night at the Opera 7. Evelyn and Her Passion for South Africa and Rhodes 8. Bertram Hopkinson and Mariana Siemens, Alice's Parents 9. The Birth of Alice Hopkinson (Roughton) 10. Childhood 11. Purchase of the House at Number 9 Adams Road 12. Cecil Hopkinson Chapter 4The Second Tragedy: The Hopkinsons and the First World War 1. The First World War (1914 1918) 2. Cecil in the War (First Act of the Second Tragedy) 3. My Perceptions of the First World War 4. Bertram Hopkinson's Plane (Second Act of the Second Tragedy) 5. Bertram's Funeral (1918) Chapter 5End of the Age of Innocence 1. The Hopkinson Widows 2. Journey to South Africa (from 20 September to 10 December, 1922) 3. Hopkinson House 4. Construction of the Oak Room at 9 Adams Road 5. Alice at University 6. Engagement and Marriage of Alice Hopkinson and Jack Roughton 7. Small Intervals of Calm 8. The Death of Evelyn Hopkinson and the Roughton Family's Move to 9 Adams Road 9. The Jungle 10. Family Life at 9 Adams Road Chapter 6Ideological Shaping 1. The Left in Cambridge Before the Second World War 2. Vincent House 3. Beatrice Webb and Alice Roughton 4. The Economist Joan Robinson 5. The High Point PART IIChapter 69 Adams Road in Wartime 1. Changes at 9 Adams Road 2. Animal Farm: Frances Walls 3. John Maynard Keynes and Ballet Jooss 4. Evenings at 9 Adams Road 5. Sunday Evenings 6. German Prisoners Chapter 7Robert Gerhard 1. Robert Gerhard in Cambridge (1939) 2. An Enigmatic lady in the Kitchen at 9 Adams Road: From Joan Mir's Abstract Art to Robert Gerhard's Electronic Music 3. The Fernndez-Shaw Family 4. Alice Roughton as Pandora 5. The Hispanists Trend and Dent Chapter 81939: Intimacies 1. Manuscript Discovered in the Cambridgeshire Archives 2. Confidences 3. Joyfully Happy PART IIIChapter 9After the War 1. Changes 2. Return of the Family from the United States 3. Good Manners in Marriage 4. Contempt for Foreigners and the Spirit of 1945: Two Sides of the Same Coin 5. The Spirit of '45 at 9 Adams Road 6. Benjamin Britten Chapter 10A New Life 1. Save Europe Now and Jack Goody 2. To Timbuktu by MG 3. Journey with Poldi to the South of France 4. Elias Bredsdorff 5. A Romantic Film 6. Finite Love 7. Introspection: Will the Birds Sing? 8. Reading 9. Notes on a Trip to Denmark Chapter 119 Adams Road: More Than a Family 1. From Family Life to Community Life 2. Alice and Her Mother 3. Mariana's Caravan 4. Gbor Cossa 5. Homosexual, Jewish, Ugly, Short, Scruffy and a Dancer Chapter 12In the Fifties 1. Maya Picasso (1952) 2. Visit to Maya Picasso in Paris, 20 October 2016 3. DNA at 9 Adams Road 4. The Scurfields and Baking Bread in the Aga 5. The Entrails of 9 Adams Road 6. Glider Flight 7. Alice, Nick Furbank and Alan Turing 8. Hungarians in 1956 PART IVChapter 13Doctor Alice Roughton 1. Two Activities in Medicine, One Sole Profession 2. The Hippy Doctor of Cambridge 3. The Boiler Suit 4. Alice as a Psychiatrist and as a GP 5. Abortion 6. Fresh Air 7. Ponji's Electroshock Chapter 14Doctor Roughton's Public Activism 1. Cambridge Civic Society 2. Alice Roughton: A Kind of Jane Jacobs 3. Pacifist Activity 4. Stephen Hawking and Eating Nettles at 9 Adams Road Chapter 15Cambridge Matters 1. Chinese New Year at 9 Adams Road 2. Joseph Needham 3. Dr. Roughton and Joseph Needham, Two Ways of Being in the World 4. Helmut Klose 5. The Rolls Royce of Adams Road Chapter 16The Seventies 1. The Death of Jack Roughton 2. The Bunsters 3. Perfectly Fresh 4. Joan Mascar 5. Tetchu 6. Lisa Hill and her Russian Classes 7. Generosity Chapter 17End 1. Decline 2. Voyage autour de ma chambre; 3. Epilogue Bibliography;Index;