Bands make their stand

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February

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Teenage Hague lights up conferenceOn this day in 1977, at the age of 16, William Hague made his first speech at the Conservative Party Conference and achieved national notoriety as the archetypal ‘Tory Boy’.

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Blue PeterBlue Peter, the world’s longest-running children’s television programme, was first broadcast on this day in 1958.

A world record was set on this day in 1992, when 983 ‘trad jazz’ bands assembled in Hyde Park for a ‘Day of Dignity’ rally organised by the Trade Union Congress. Read on...

Tony Benn gave a passionate speech in defence of dignity

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