Adult Life
He married Ruth Woodeson, the writer, in 1958, and they had one son, later separating. In 1962 he published his first memoir West Briton (an antiquated reference to the Anglo-Irish upper classes in Ireland, from whose cultural influence Inglis never entirely escaped). He was a founding member of the British-Irish Association, which became the British Association for Irish Studies.
In 1975 he wrote and narrated a unique sound archive of World War 2 for record label Cameo Classics, entitled "Sounds of All Our Yesterdays". It was researched by his close friend Bill Grundy, a Producer of the Granada TV series "All Our Yesterdays", which Brian had presented for 10 years.
His interest in the paranormal began while working at The Spectator. In 1978 he published Natural and Supernatural. With Arthur Koestler he co-founded the KIB Foundation which supported research into paranormal phenomena. He published a work on people who enter trance states (Trance: A Natural History of Altered States of Mind) and his last work, written as a tribute to Koestler and the Koestler Foundation, dealt with a subject dear to his late friend's heart. It was entitled Coincidence: A Matter of Chance or Synchronicity? He was a consultant on the 1981 Thames Television programme Mind Over Matter.
He published his final memoir, Downstart, in 1990. The title is taken from the preface to Immaturity by George Bernard Shaw,and is a play on the word upstart, as in one who pretends to a higher station in life than is merited.
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