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|author=Ruth Winstone (editor)
|title=Events, Dear Boy, Events: A Political Diary of Britain from Woolf to Campbell
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Choosing an anthology of this nature is bound to be something of a random, scattershot operation. Of the thousands of diarists who have left their written observations and commentaries of political events in, or affecting, the United Kingdom in the last hundred years or so, many are bound to be omitted, and an editor has a thankless task of choosing the best. However Ruth Winstone, a former Senior Clerk at the House of Commons and editor of published diaries by Tony Benn and [[:Category:Chris Mullin|Chris Mullin]], has compiled an impressive volume bringing together extracts from politicians and other celebrities covering all shades of opinion and all major happenings.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684323</amazonuk>
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|author=Margaret Mahy and Gavin Bishop