It's 1920 and the Daily Express is serialising a new book, "The House of Bondage" by Ralph Rodd, author of "The Whipping Girl". #happiertimes
It was five years ago today that my book All in It Together: Britain in the Early 21st Century was published.
John Walker, following the split of the Walker Brothers, with Sunny and Sue. Daily Mirror, 1967.
Harold Wilson in 1954. "And after dinner, I'll get the projector out and show you some slides from our holiday."
Not only a review in Private Eye, but also a caricature! How marvellous!
"This gleaming gem of a book … crammed with rich detail." - David Vaiani in The Oldie.
"In his witty and wide-ranging account Turner gives the impression that he enjoys communing with British generations long gone. There's no finger-wagging, no scolding of the dead for not passing 21st-century morality tests." @robbiemillen.bsky.social reviews A Shellshocked Nation in The Times.
What to buy for the dad who "doesn't want anything"? The Sunday Times has a suggestion.
Coming soon: A Shellshocked Nation - as recommended by @robbiemillen.bsky.social.
No other British pop singer has aged with as much style as Kevin Rowland.
Britain in June 1953 (from the Globe newspaper). Peggy Cripps (daughter of the late Sir Stafford) marrying Joe Appiah; Clement Attlee at the Durham Miners' Gala; the Queen at a rainy Buckingham Palace garden party; procession in London for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
Lovely to see Little Englanders in The Times's "Best paperbacks of 2025" today.
I know you'll all be eager to spend those Book Tokens that your auntie gave you for Christmas, but if you just hold your horses a moment... the paperback edition of Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era will be published on Friday.
I once saw Tory MP Sir Gerald Nabarro on a railway station in Wales.
It's a sign of something when the Daily Telegraph doesn't run the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury as its lead story.