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|title=The Shop Girls
|author=Elee Seymour
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=Heyworth's Department Store.
The chances are, you have never heard of it before. I know that I hadn't, before I picked up this book. And yet, there was a time, not so long ago, when everyone in Cambridge would have been familiar with Heyworth's, even if they couldn't afford to shop there themselves. Smaller than most department stores, it offered high-end fashion, childrenswear and millinery, with a staff of smiling, smartly-dressed sales assistants ready to cater to the customer's every whim. It seems sad that with the passing of generations, the very existence of the store seems to have slipped away from the collective consciousness; ask most people in Cambridge if they remember Heyworth's and the majority response would be negative.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751554960</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Drew
|summary=President John F Kennedy had been warned about going to Dallas - he himself referred to it as 'nut country' - but, conscious of the upcoming 1964 presidential elections, he needed to bring some support from the city onside and that was why he and the First Lady found themselves in the motorcade which swept into Dealey Plaza on 22 November 1963. There can be few people who are not aware of what happened next, but Jonathan Mayo has presented a chronology of events over the next four days (''four days, three murders, hundreds of stories'', as the cover says) demonstrating the pressure under which the officials involved were working and the dreadful impact of what happened..
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721854</amazonuk>
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