Born Oldham. Author, journalist, doctor and member of parliament. Served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Boer War, WW1 and WW2, winning a Military Cross.
First Jewish Labour Party candidate. Grandfather of actor Christopher Guest who is the 5th Baron Haden-Guest.
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Lord Leslie Haden-Guest
Manufacturers of printing ink for the newspaper industry. Its head office was at Wine Office Court off Fleet Street.
Pennant's London is a book about London published in the early 1800s. The Picture Source website does not make it clear that our picture is from Pennant's London, but it is such an apposite picture...
On 1 September 1773 A. Bell Booksellers published a volume of poems by Phillis Wheatley. At this time book publishers and sellers were often the same people.
Broadcaster, writer and civil liberties campaigner. Born as Leighton Rhett Radford Howe in Moruga, Trinidad. He moved to England at the age of 18 and initially studied law before moving to journali...
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