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Stanley Matthews and his wife Betty arrive in London, ahead of becoming the first active footballer to be knighted 📸 Getty Images

On this day in 1893, Lillian Gish was born in Springfield, OH. In 1988, I wrote to her asking if they had scripts and dialogue to memorize in silent films, or if the director just gave them a sense of what was being said. This was her astonishingly informative reply. Classy lady.

Born 14th October 1940 Cliff Richard - High Class Baby (1998 Remaster) https://t.co/pFnccFUPCN via @YouTube

On the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings.

“Saint Pancras was a fourteen-year old Christian boy who was martyred in Rome in AD 304 by the Emperor Diocletian. In England he is better known as a railway station.” Sir John Betjeman

#OnThisDay 1852: King's Cross station was opened by the Great Northern Railway. ➡️ https://t.co/bnKmV6neIv

Remembering the wonderful English music hall entertainer and comedian Bud Flanagan ( Chaim Weintrop) who was born on this day in 1896. Best known as one half of the double act Flanagan and Allen and being part of the Crazy Gang. He died in 1968. #BudFlanagan #TheCrazyGang

Good evening! This week's theme is London from a Window. ----- 'Window in London Street', Fitzroy Street (1901) by Sir William Orpen (National Gallery of Ireland)

William the Conqueror killed Harold II at Hastings on this day 1066. Of his Harrying of the North, one writer said: 'So terrible a famine fell upon the humble and defenceless people, that more than 100,000 Christian folk of both sexes, young and old alike, perished of hunger.'

‘There is a darker though equally Thatcherite story to tell about Grantham’ Returning to Thatcher-land, a century after her birth, today at the @NewStatesman:

We're wishing a happy 45th birthday to Ben Wishaw, best known as "the voice of the marmalade-sandwich-loving ursid" in the Paddington movies. https://t.co/IX37JdtEXc

Happy 85th birthday to the great Chris Farlowe, born on this day 1940 in Islington, North London. My mum was a big fan and used to go and see him on the North London circuit in the mid-60s.

https://t.co/4D6tzvGDmy Excellent article by @fin_lay24

FRUIT LOOP . . . Margaret Thatcher attended Grantham School for Girls, as did the medium Doris Stokes. Doris chose “Have I told you lately that I love you?”by Freddie Starr as one of her songs when she went on Desert Island Discs. Freddie was a child actor in the film “Violent

Final call for tonight's meeting to join over 500 trade union reps and activists wanting to help build Your Party to be the best version it can be - an anti-austerity and anti-war party with trade unions and trade unionists at its heart: https://t.co/aXODZCbmiN

Right:My 1st AI imaging effort,inspired by ‘Attack Warning Red’ by @JulieAMcDowall. Chauffeur to Prime Minister Harold MacMillan issued with coins for MacMillan to use in phone box to call UK Cold War Command,in event of imminent attack being radioed to his car via AA radio link!

Dominic Cummings endorses Katie Lam in his latest email (NPC=non-player character; LFG=Looking For Growth, pressure group)

"The danger when Margaret speaks without thinking is that she says what she thinks." "There’s a lot to be said for the old broad: she makes you laugh." "We weren’t children of Thatcher; we hated her." Some views of Thatcher on the centenary of her birth. https://t.co/5p0lHIGW6H

A free online Adventuremice event for schools this coming Friday ⬇️

Amazing - Philip Larkin reviews Tennyson's collected poems. Reprinted in the New Statesman https://t.co/XYmaaFytik