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Travel etc: Grand Tours: A wet rural ride on St Swithin's Day Adventures in literature from the world's great writers. This week, William Cobbett
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The radical journalist and politician William Cobbett was born in
Farnham, Surrey, in 1762. He spent four years riding around the south
of England in the 1820s, investigating the state of the countryside
during the agrarian revolution. His accounts of these journeys were
published under the title "Rural Rides" in 1830. They include not
only agricultural observations but impassioned tirades against the
"Lords of the Loom" (the cotton manufacturers), London (which he
called the "Wen", a growth which fed on the honest toil of the
workers), and The Thing (his name for the Establishment). ...
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John Profumo, 91; Politician In 1960s British Sex Scandal
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...after a stroke. He was 91. Mr. Profumo was Great Britain's minister...politics, espionage and suicide, the Profumo affair has reverberated through...sexually graphic era to come. John Dennis Profumo, born Jan. 30, 1915, was a...
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John Profumo, 91, cabinet member in sex scandal OBITUARY
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...by him until her death in 1998.Profumo was secretary of war in the government...was said to have introduced Profumo to Keeler in 1961 at a party at...Conservative government had fallen. John Dennis Profumo was born in 1915 to a wealthy...
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John Profumo CBE.(Obituary)
Magazine article from: Sabretache
; John Dennis Profumo, CBE, the central figure in the 1963...survived by their son the writer David Profumo. (1) Churchill, Winston. The Second...African War (1900-09). His son, John Amery was executed for high treason in...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Raiders beat to death friend of Profumo,83.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...disgraced Tory minister John Profumo, who carried out his...been friendly with Mr Profumo, who died aged 91 last...as the place where Mr Profumo devoted his life to community...Association chairman Dennis Delderfield said...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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PROFUMO PAL BATTERED TO DEATH BY BURGLARS.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; ...of disgraced ex-Cabinet Minister John Profumo - was found unconscious by his 17...our homes and trash the place." Dennis Delderfield said: "They smoke drugs...shout abuse and spit on us." Mr Profumo quit over the Christine Keeler scandal...
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JOHN PROFUMO ; 2006: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Party managers and law officers raised Profumo from his sleep and advised him that a unique opportunity had arisen for him to quash...allegations were repeated outside the House of Commons. That was the fatal step (Professor Dennis Kavanagh)
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Books: Life before death Peter Stanford, author of a new biography of Bronwen Astor, the Fifties model turned chatelaine of Cliveden during the Profumo scandal, assesses the pros and cons of writing about a subject who's still around
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...feathers of her widower and daughter; John Campbell, whose forthcoming account of...more notorious prisoners he visited: so Dennis Nilsen was to be referred to not only...1960 subsequently embroiled her in the Profumo Scandal, the fall-out from which blackened...
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British politician saw a career ended over a sex scandal
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze
; ...Evening Standard proclaimed: "Profumo the sex scandal minister is dead...and a much smaller mug- shot of Profumo -- both taken around the time...stood by him. She died in 1998. John Dennis Profumo was born in 1915 to a wealthy...
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EARL JELLICOE ; Minister under Heath who made a successful return to public life after his involvement in a sex scandal
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...as George Jellicoe. The son of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, who commanded the Imperial fleet...He was also constituency party secretary for John Profumo's Stratford seat. At the time Profumo was Secretary of State for War. According to...
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Deadlines, deadlines
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...notes, the seeds for the infamous Profumo Affair were sown there (it was at...that Conservative Cabinet minister John Profumo met, and became besotted by, showgirl...Don't confuse Randy Quaid with Dennis Quaid," "Don't Read `War and...
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