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Blogs in January 1970

When God was a Rabbit 1st January 1970

1968. The year Paris takes to the streets. The year Martin Luther King loses his life for a dream. The year Eleanor Maud Portman is born. Young Elly’s world is shaped by those who inhabit it: her loving but...

The Shell Seekers 1st January 1970

Artist’s daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children – and...

The Night before Christmas 1st January 1970

All Lydia’s ever wanted is a perfect Christmas… So when her oldest friends invite her to spend the holidays with them, it seems like a dream come true. She’s been promised log fires, roasted chestnuts, her own weight in...

Shadows of Conflict 1st January 1970

When Katie, redundant from her media job, accepts Mattie’s offer to take over her shop, A Good Yarn, in Dartmouth, she expects her life to be busy and unexciting. But with an American film crew in town intent on...

Heartland 1st January 1970

Football World Cup 2002. Dudley. Rob is a teacher’s assistant at a local run down school and although still young was never able to emulate his famous father’s success as a professional footballer. The Labour Party, BNP, a young...