'This is not quite a memoir. Rather it is the view from old age. And a view of old age itself this p..

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Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968 when he was 20. Over the next 50 years he met her many t..

Emil Zátopek won five Olympic medals set 18 world records and went undefeated over 10000 metres for..

It was on a Sunday night in 1928 that Billy Hopkins made his first appearance. Billy's tenement home..

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