Category: History
The Guardian on… Cults.
Apparently, in those more freeform pre-Blair-government days of February 1997, The Guardian (or at least those parts of the Guardian who worked Saturdays to put out the Observer) decided to put out a guide to cults.
A Marriage Made in Portsmouth: The Union between the Liberal Party and the SDP
Here’s a nice little documentary on the Liberal/SDP merger. A little before my time, there are a good number of faces I remember from later years – though all noticeably younger!
It seems to have been first shown at 6.00pm on the March 2nd, 2009.
For All Time
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This is kinda cool – this site seems to have made it as far as the UK Web Archive’s crawlers! Apparently I will now taint the web long after I’m gone.
There are also a couple of snapshots on Archive.org but they only exist because I was playing with their Wayback Machine website – alas, I have not yet to made it far enough up the list for them to visit of their own accord.