‘Truman pegs’ bring relief – and anxiety…

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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.

Christmas came early in 1948, with the arrival in austerity Britain of a consignment of ‘Truman pegs’ from the United States. Read on...

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