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9 Oct 2024
The Times is looking for babies to feature in our New Reader's column; 150-250 words plus a pic, free of charge. Please dm if you are interested....
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4 Jun 2024
Mafia bosses tried to stop Al Ruddy making 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘥𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳
How did he get them to drop their threats and opposition?
He made them an offer they couldn't refuse...
Listen to me reading his obituary on our new @TimesObits podcast here from 9m54s
shows.acast.com/your-history…
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4 Jun 2024
Today @TimesLucy and I have recorded a podcast episode for @TimesObits featuring the obituaries of two remarkable people:
Rugby star and MND campaigner Rob Burrow
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Producer of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘥𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, Albert Ruddy
Listen here: shows.acast.com/your-history…
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3 Jun 2024
Mr Blackburn
Tales of D-Day
You might be interested in Maureen Flavin Sweeney & the weather station at Blacksod Point 🇮🇪
thetimes.co.uk/article/90ced…
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28 May 2024
Join @AnnaTemkin every week for 'Your History', a new podcast from The Times and Sunday Times looking back on the remarkable lives that have shaped our times. Launching Tuesday 28th May
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28 May 2024
Join @AnnaTemkin every week for 'Your History', a new podcast from The Times and Sunday Times looking back on the remarkable lives that have shaped our times. Launching Tuesday 28th May
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8 Apr 2024
The panellists were permitted ten yes or no questions, the first of which was “Miss Lane, do your very good looks and youthful charm have any bearing on the service that you perform?” bit.ly/3vIP8iU
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27 Mar 2024
Hours after the crash, night descended, beasts howled and McAleese was shivering alone in the heart of “Escobar country” in “f***ing excruciating pain”. shorturl.at/izW29
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25 Mar 2024
Pollini was an enigma. Though shy and difficult in interviews, the former chess player was a thoughtful and relaxed conversationalist, spluttering with laughter when asked about his controlled and cerebral performances. shorturl.at/imuJT
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22 Mar 2024
When defending a homeless man one day, the barrister burst into song, giving the judge a rendition of Ralph McTell’s Streets of London to illustrate the hardships of those sleeping rough. bit.ly/4957bgT
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19 Mar 2024
In March 1958, when Rose Dugdale curtseyed to the Queen at Buckingham Palace, no one present could have imagined that the 17-year-old girl paying obeisance to her monarch would become a leading IRA terrorist.
bit.ly/48YR0lm
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18 Mar 2024
Despite his success, he never felt included in the pop world and suffered from a measure of impostor syndrome.
“A lot of the lyrical inspirations came from Cabaret and A Clockwork Orange,” he said, “so I was operating in a different world.”
bit.ly/3TENurG
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14 Mar 2024
“I should like people to read my work and think it was like drinking lemonade,” he said, “only to find a little later that it was strongly laced. I’d want it to go down like lemonade but to hit them like vodka.” bit.ly/3uZn8HG
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13 Mar 2024
Josette Molland obituary: painter who joined the French Resistance
She was tortured and imprisoned in Ravensbrück, and used art to document her experiences after the war thetimes.co.uk/article/joset…
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13 Mar 2024
“One minute he was charming, and the next a killer.”
As British High Commissioner in Uganda from late 1973 James Hennessy regularly had to deal with Idi Amin and his dangerously volatile behaviour. bit.ly/3v9sKyS
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13 Mar 2024
She’s The One deserved to be a hit and was about to become one — although not by Wallinger but in a version by Robbie Williams using two of World Party’s regular backing musicians. bit.ly/4c5UoNUIt
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7 Mar 2024
Absolute cracking finish to Blyth MP Ronnie Cambell's @TimesObits 😂
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5 Mar 2024
Paul Rambali was the writer who helped to create the edgy sensibility of The Face magazine in the Eighties.
Read the full @TimesObits article ⬇️
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5 Mar 2024
In his sharp, natty threads, he was the antithesis of the ripped jeans, greasy hair and worn-out T-shirts of the musical and cultural movement he had named. bit.ly/3TiMdq9
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