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|title=Events, Dear Boy, Events: A Political Diary of Britain from Woolf to Campbell

|author=Ruth Winstone (editor)

|publisher=Profile

|date=October 2012

|summary=An anthology packed with excerpts from diarists, including politicians, authors and showbiz personalities, covering various movements in politics and major national and international events from the last hundred years, which can be dipped into or read cover-to-cover. In effect it is in some ways like an alternative history of our times.

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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.