Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• Week commencing January 23rd Illustrated London news changes the cover of the magazine replacing the advert wrap with a black and white photograph of Sir Winston Churchill, who was gravely ill. This format continued for many years
• January 24th - Sir Winston Churchill died aged 90
• March 3rd - US bombs Vietnam, marines begin landing in strength
• June 3rd - Major Edward White became the first American to walk in space from Gemini IV travelling at 117,500 mph
• The Beatles are presented with MBEs by the Queen causing some recipients of the medal to return theirs to the Palace as they saw it as a devaluation of the system to present pop idols with it
• July 27th - Edward Heath elected leader of the Conservative Party
• October - Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were accused of the Moors murders (parliament had only just repealed the death sentence for murder)
• November 29th - Mrs Mary Whitehouse formed the National Viewers Association
• The very first woman High Court Judge was appointed in Britain
• A maximum speed limit of 70mph was introduced into Britain
• Sanctions were introduced against Rhodesia as Britains last African colony had declared UDI by premier Ian Smith
• Singapore secedes from Malaysia
• Race riots in the Watts district of Los Angeles

Also contains

COWES WEEK

NORTH SEA GAS

HIMALAYAS

ARKLE - STEEPLECHASER

MARY MARTIN

VATICAN

KASHMIR

SPARTAKIADE - PRAGUE

COMMONWEALTH ARTS FESTIVAL

WIMBLEDON

SUKARNO

BADMINGTON HORSE TRIALS

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

MOTOR SHOW

EDINBURGH FESTIVAL

THE QUEEN'S STAMP COLLECTION

IAN SMITH

PRINCESS MARGARET'S AMERICAN TOUR

DE GAULLE

THE BOLSHOI BALLET - IN LONDON

HOVERCRAFT SRN 4

VIETNAM

CRICKET - JOHN REID

GAUDIER-BRZESKA

INGRID BERGMAN / REDGRAVE

WORLD GLIDING CHAMPIONSHIPS

WINSTON CHURCHILL

THE QUEEN IN GERMANY

HAROLD WILSON

TED HEATH

VIETNAM

ASTRONAUTS - GRISSOM / YOUNG

HAMLET - AT STRATFORD

POPE - IN NEW YORK

THE RYDER CUP

January 2nd

• Christmas blizzards;
• Fatima Jinnah challenges Ayub Khan for Presidency of Pakistan;
• Buddists behind crises in Vietnam;
• US plans for new Panama Canal; the Crisis in Britain's Ports;
• Tate displays Guggenheim collection;
• Start of cutting up of Abu Simbel monument on the Nile;
• Kokoschka's lithographs; look at Liverpool; Michael Tippett 60th birthday.

January 9th

• Indonesian aggression against Malaysia;
• Vietnam;
• Italy choose new President;
• John Brown of Clydebank contract for new Cunarder;
• US Operation Skyhook;
• Archaeology in Bulgaria;
• Chess Masters at Hastings;
• Boat show at Olympia.
• Full page colour adverts for Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes (skiing) and Rootes Humber Imperial car.

January 16th

• Dr Schweitzer celebrates his 90th Birthday
• Ministers campaign in by-elections
• P.C`s wounded in Kensington gun fight
• First steps towards the new Cunarder at John Brown Shipyard
• My Fair Lady comes to town

January 23rd

• Sir Winston Churchill - the world waits anxiously;
• Malaysia keys up defences;
• fight to save the TSR-2;
• projected M4 motorway and progress on River Severn bridge;
• Long forgotten caravanserai on Marco Polo's road;
• Lykes sea-barge clippers.
• Full page Booth's gin advert.

January 30th

• Nation mourns Sir Winston Churchill;
• Gordon Walker defeated;
• President Lyndon Johnson's lavish inauguration;
• Monte Carlo blizzard nightmare;
• full page colour adverts for Shell (Guide to Bird Sanctuaries: Caerlaverock illustrated by Donald Watson, Consulate cigarettes and South African Airways with B.O.A.C

February 6th

• This edition is devoted entirely to the lying in state, service, funeral procession and transporting of the coffin to Baldon of Sir Winston Churchill with lots of colour illustrations.
• Full page colour adverts for Midland Bank (Introductions to Wild Life by John Leigh Pemberton), Riley Elf car, P & O - Orient, Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes, Emeralds by Garrard, Martini Dry and Hillman Minx,.
• Arthur Bryant Iain Hamilton
  Sir Winston Churchill Lies In State Tribute Story With Photos Of Funeral Procession
  Queen Elizabeth Princess Margaret Photos
  Sir Robert Menzies Lester Pearson President De Gaulle Dwight Eisenhower Earl Warren Ivan Koniev Close Up Photos
  Iain Hamilton Story The Captains And The Kings Honour The Great Commoner
  Oxfordshire Country Churchyard The Resting Place Of Sir Winston Churchill Photos Lady Churchill Randolph Churchill Lady Audley Family Mourners
  

February 13th

• Arthur Bryant Roger Elliot
• Arthur Bryant Story Our Notebook Talking About The Illustrated London News
• Roger Elliot Story Taking Stock Of The Foreign Secretary With Photos Of Michael Stewart
• Robert Blake Story Mr. Butler Out Of Politics With Photos Of R. A. Butler
• Louis Fischer Story The Red Tsar An Appreciation By Sir Charles Petrie
• Queen Elizabeth And The Emperor Photos At A Childrens Rally
• Massimo Pallottino Story New Etruscan Texts On Gold Found At Pyrgi
• Edward Hyams Story Wind Across The Garden
• Important People Duchess Of Gloucester Geoffrey Johnson-Smith Sir Chester Beatty Dr. Joseph Danquah Jack Hylton Photos
• Kenneth Macmillan With Christopher Gable Photos
• Bill Hartley Story The Minister Of Transport Answers
• Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim As An Epic Filmmaking Story With Movie Stills
  
  

February 20th

• war in Vietnam, Vietcong retaliate,
• US soldiers' coffins returning home;
• Aircraft industry in turbulence;
• Gemini astronauts underwater escape drills;
• policeman shot at Oxenholme, Westmorland;
• new finds at Turkish Aphrodisias;
• record ovation for MacMillan's Romeo & Juliet.
• Illustrated articles include the Queen at El Obeid in the Sudan.
• Full page colour adverts for MG Midget, Johnnie Walker Red Label & Dry Sack Sherry

February 27th

• crisis in the Health Service.
• Moon pictures from Ranger VIII;
• USA Assassination of Malcolm X;
• Anti-Castro raiders attack Cuba oil base;
• Canada hoists its new maple leaf flag;
• Oxford & Cambridge boat race crews.
• Full page colour adverts for BP (visits St. Pancras Festival) & Austin A110 Mark II & Hotel Phoenicia, Malta

March 6th

• war in Vietnam.
• Roger Casement's State Funeral in Dublin;
• Ideal Home Exhibition;
• Elevation of Cardinal Heenan;
• Harold Wilson in Germany;
• search for Imhotep in Sakkara;
• Ulbricht in Cairo, Nasser;
• Kennedy papers on display at Royal Exchange.
• Full page colour adverts for Midland Bank (British Wild Life by John Leigh Pemberton), Martini, Consulate cigarettes, Sanderson wallpapers, Brooke Marine (Persea & Ocean Pirate).

March 13th

• Sukarno's dream of an Indonesian empire and threats against Malaysia.
• Harold Wilson in Berlin and debate on Rhine Army;
• Alabama demonstrations;
• death of Herbert Morrison;
• Cross Country Championship;
• Snowbound Britain worst March for 10 years;
• mass producing garden lily bulbs;
• Goldie the golden eagle at large from London Zoo.
• Full page colour adverts for Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes, Estoril, BP (visits St. Pancras Festival), Wolseley 6/110, Whitbread (food vignettes).

March 20th

• America's racial crisis including Martin Luther King addressing supporters over Selma, Alabama.
• Princess Margaret in Uganda,
• 1st British 100,000 ton tanker, BP's British Admiral;
• Rugby - Wales beat Ireland for the Triple Crown;
• Welwyn Garden City's new "Hilton" hospital;
• bushfires in Australia;
• tomb of Gyges, 7th C King of Lydia identified;
• Prince Philip in India.
• Full page colour adverts for Johnnie Walker Red label whisky; PG tips, Guinness (Guide to river fish), Aston Martin, Shell (Guide to Bird Sanctuaries: Dungeness)

March 27th

• America's Gemini astronauts Virgil Grissom & JohnYoung, Gemini 3 blasting into space and Russia's Leonov swims from Voskhod 2; .
• Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama,
• Oxford v Cambridge boat race;
• Rugby - Calcutta Cup England v Scotland;.
• Full page colour adverts for Garrard Swiss watches, Riley 1.5, Bass, Consulate cigarettes, BP (visits Glyndebourne), & Norwich Union Insurance.

April 3rd

• British Ambassador in France planning visit of British Prime Minister.
• sudden death of Princess Royal,
• Ireland's General Election;
• new shopping centre at the Elephant & Castle;
• transport plan for Liverpool;
• Jay Trump wins the Grand National;
• L.C.C. becomes the G.L.C.;
• Carthaginian city found in Sardinia;
• new Autostrada del Sole in Italy;
• Augustus John.
• Full page colour advert for Midland Bank (British Wild Life by John Leigh Pemberton), Martini Dry, & Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes.

April 10th

• Chancellor James Callaghan's tough budget with caricature of him by Gerald Scarfe
• Harold Wilson in Paris;
• farmers case against the Farm Price Review;
• funeral of Princess Royal;
• Oxford win the boat race;
• BOAC's 25th birthday;
• taming the Indus in West Pakistan;
• Early Bird communications satellite.
• Full page colour adverts for Sanderson wallpapers & fabrics, MG car, Whitbread ale and a full page b/w advert for Parker 18 carat gold pen.

This is a Hunt Bernard Oversized Printing - Timothy Green Editor

issue presents a Diverse Cultural View of the Sensational 60s - British Outlook on Life

The cover Image Presents a Drawn Image of Callaghan - Callaghan's Tough budget Proposals

The Inside front cover offers a - Sanderson - Wallpapers & Fabrics - Our Man Know his Roses Ad Page - It is Backed with a Parker - Gold Pen Full Page Ad

More Ad Pages Open the Issue
Milan - Italian State tourist Office
Rukba
Pinnock Finance
Dormobile Caravan
Zeiss
Thornycroft - Ship and boat builders
Rem Martin Cognac
Full Page Qantas - V-Jet Ad Page
Full Page Italian Line
British Rail
Seagers of London gin
Spastics Society
J. Goddard & Sons Ltd
Bisquit

The Budget - The Key Men Behind the Budget With Images of
John diamond
Niall Macdermot
Horace King
Nicholas Kaldor

Our Note Book - Arthur Bryant - With Image of The Queen Elizabeth - Drawn View

Mr. Wilson in Paris for closer Entente with views of
President and Prime Minister's Wife - De Gaulle
Dinner at French Foreign Ministry
de Gaulle shaking hands with Mr. Harold Wilson

The Farmers' Case - Ever since the Government published this year's Farm Price Review, farmers allover the country have been protesting -
Angry farmers marched to the House of Commons
Archie Hall
Clem Smith
Frank Mitchell
Roy Barwick
West country farmers arrive at Waterloo

The Farmers' Case - with details and images

Mr. Wilson Ulster and the Lords - Robert Black
Parliament Building - Belfast

Window on the World
New Delhi - Mr. John Freeman - Dr. Zakir Hunnain
Chile - Mudslide
Tirana Albania - Chou-en-lai welcomed
Camden Alabama - Civil rights demonstrator

Dame Edith Hits Out - - Edith Sitwell - An appreciation by Sir Charles Petrie with Image of Edith Sitwell

Around Britain
Brian London beats bill Walker
London Reachers Association
B.E.A. Silorsky helicopter
Prince Philip in the witness box

Funeral Rites for the Princess Royal - With Images

Dark Blues Triumph - Neat Rowing Images

In an English Garden - Earth Banks by Edward Hyams

BOAC's triple Triumph
Sir Giles Guthrie
Terminal at Kennedy Airport
Drawn view of terminal

Mosaics for Ethiopia show craftsmanship on a magnificent scale - With Art Images

Taming Indus waters to create new fertility in West Pakistan - with River and Dam Views

A Page for Collectors - An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff-bottles - Frank Davis - With Images

Personalities of the Week - with images
Jean Nicoll found dead at home
Dir Patrick Deans leaves for US
Death of Helena Rubenstein
Lord Pender dies
Death of Dr. Hench
..Istvan Kertesz New Principal conductor of L.S.O
Death os Sir William Bowen
Robin Day, Panorama's Roving Reporter is Married in Perth

Bonington Honoured by his Native City - With Numerous Art Images

The World of the Theatre - Hamlet and Horatio - J.C. Trewin - with Views

Love's Labour's Lost opens new Stratford Season - Glenda Jackson - Charles Thomas - Brewster Mason - John Barton - Jessica Claridge

The World of Cinema - Now About These Directors - Alan Dent - with image of Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in Marriage - Italian Style

The Early Bird is prepared for its first flight - Andover Maine Station - First Commercial Communication Satellite

The World of Motoring - Car of the Month - The 4.2 Litre Mark X Jaguar - by bill Hartley with Image

Books of the Week

Books in Brief

Chess Notes

The Inside Back Cover presents a M.G. Car Co - MG Magnette, MG. Midget .While the Back Cover itself is a Whitebread - Always keep a little Whitbread for your friends Ad Page

April 17th

• 18 page supplement on Sweden.
• F111 aircraft replacing the TSR2;
• Communist harassment of West Berlin;
• biggest ever sky diving event in Britain (Red Devils, Golden Knights
• Full page colour adverts for Shell (Guide to Bird Sanctuaries: Minsmere with illustration by Rowland Hilder), & Rothmans king size

April 24th

• Badminton Horse Trials.
• tragic Easter on Britain's roads & mods v rockers;
• Germany getting the flags out for Queen's visit;
• the Queen at Windsor on her 39th birthday;
• collision of tankers Nora and Otto N. Miller in the English Channel;
• Los Angeles giant art gallery;
• Harewood treasures for sale at Christie's;
• new tunnel under Swiss Alps;
• Tito Gobbi triumphs at Covent Garden;
• Full page colour adverts for Pringle, Mateus Rose & Casal Garcia and silver by Garrard.

May 1st

• Ian Smith and the Rhodesia crisis;
• India & pakistan and the Rann of Kutch;
• Tommy Docherty send home 8 Chelsea F.C. players;
• America tests dry landing for a Gemini;
• London from 5 miles up;
• 100th test wicket for Lance Gibbs at Georgetown;
• Royal Academy summer exhibition.
• Full page colour adverts for Midland Bank (British Wild Life by John Leigh Pemberton), Sanderson and Whitbread (cooking with).

May 8th

• Front Cover - Steel : The Battle over Nationalisation.
• Edward Judge : President of the British iron and Steel Fedreration
• Quick American Action Quells Dominican Revolt
• The 2000 and 1000 Guineas at Newmarket
• The Roses War at Wembley.
• Liverpool win FA Cup

May 15th

• special 12pp report on the North East of Britain.
• 20 years after WW2 - France relives liberation of Paris;
• Rhodesian white opposition crushed;
• a lull in the Dominican storm;
• Wigan beat Hunslet in the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final;
• Oxford beat Cambridge in Athletics and England draw with Yugoslavia in football;
• Full page colour adverts for Reyrolle, Riley 4/72, PG tips, Heineken and Rothman's king size.

May 22nd

• New Zealand cricket team in England.
• Britain gives acre of ground to USA at Runnymede to John F. Kennedy - Queen opens memorial with the President's family;
• Mining disaster with 31 killed at Clydach Vale in Wales;
• Critical Church convocation;
• First balloon race since Edwardian days;
• new laboratory at Kew.
• Full page colour adverts for Sandeman, Shell (Guide to Bird Sanctuaries: Cairngorms and Loch Garten ill'd by Donald Watson) and Norwich Union. Full page b/w advert for Parker 18 carat gold pen

May 29th

• Queen's visit to Germany.
• Stolen Goya recovered;
• Chelsea flower show;
• Marc Chagall looks back at life in Russia & Paris;
• Newham welcomes West Ham after winning the European Cup Winners Cup;
• Mohenjo-Daro excavations in West Pakistan.
• Full page colour adverts for Schweppes, Singer Vogue and Peter Stuyvesant.

June 5th

• Opening of Yvonne Arnaud theatre in Guildford with Ingrid Bergman and Sir Michael Redgrave.
• Queen in Germany;
• New Zealand lose first Test (cricket),
• Renaissance in Cambridge;
• Exoticism of Indian Art;
• Gaudier-Brzeska after 50 years;
• Excavations in Euboea.
• Full page colour adverts for Midland Bank (British Wild Life by John Leigh Pemberton), Brooke Marine (craft are "Ocean Pirate" & "Persea") & Heineken.

June 12th

• World Gliding Championships.
• Four days in space in Gemini IV;
• 25th anniversary of Dunkirk -little ships return - little ships returning,
• Alan Simpson sets new mile record at White City;
• Sea Bird II wins the Epsom Derby;
• Artists who met at Cafe Royal.
• Full page colour adverts for Johnnie Walker whisky, Mateus Rose & Casal Garcia, BP (festivals series - visits King's Lynn), & Schweppes.

June 19th

• British Combined Services expedition in footsteps of Shackleton conquer Antarctic peaks.
• Paris Air Show with British automatic landing triumph & crash of U.S.A.F. Hustler;
• Trooping the Colour;
• Commonwealth Conference;
• new records for mile and marathon.
• Full page colour adverts for Barclays Bank, Shell (Guide to Bird Sanctuaries - The Calf of Man) & Benson & Hedges

June 26th

• Garter ceremomy at Windsor.
• Vietnam - Commonwealth peace mission, more American troops;
• Coup in Algeria;
• Royal Ascot races; Aldeburgh Festival - Britten etc;
• Common Market marches forward - Brussels construction;
• Le Mans 24 hour race .
• Full page colour adverts for Bass, Singer Vogue, & Esso tiger in your tank.

July 3rd

• Emerson opening Wimbledon tennis Championships.
• Inside Vietcong territory;
• Engagement of Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands;
• Salvation Army Centenary;
• Common Market & its problem Parliament;
• painting and calligraphy in ancient China;
• Moses and Aaron "undo-able" Opera .
• Full page colour adverts for Midland Bank (British Wild Life by John Leigh Pemberton), Johnnie Walker Red Label Whisky & Heineken.

July 10th

• Westland's Cross Channel Hovercraft SRN 4.
• Prince Charles' 1st Royal duty at Holyroodhouse,
• Wimbledon tennis (Australian players dominate),
• records fall at Henley Regatta;
• Mariner IV heads for Mars pictures;
• Rebuilding the railway that Lawrence of Arabia wrecked;
• the lost Roman road of Tunis & Libya
• Full page colour adverts for Sandeman sherries, Barclays Bank & Consulate cigarettes.

July 17th

• Czechoslovakia staging its 3rd spectacular Spartakiade in Prague.
• Commando raid frees train robber Ronald Biggs;
• Peter Thomson wins fifth Open Golf at Royal Birkdale;
• Royal Show at Stoneleigh;
• Giacometti at the Tate;
• Wren Church (St. Mary Aldermanbury)dismantled to be Chuchill Memorial in Fulton,
• Missouri
• Full page colour adverts for Dry Monopole Champagne, Pale Ale by Whitbreads (double page), BP (visits Glyndebourne Festival) & Rothmans King Size.

July 24th

• Bolshoi Ballet in London.
• death of Adlai Stevenson in London - 5pp including obituary and memorial service;
• State visit of President Frei of Chile;
• Precinct plan for Whitehall and Parliament Square;
• Frank Cousins and the Cabinet;
• Mars from 9000 miles as seen from Mariner IV;
• Matterhorn celebrations for Centenary of Edward Whymper's climb;
• Dame Laura Knight looks back;
• Sion House become garden centre;
• new discoveries in Carian Iasos.
• Full page colour adverts for Consulate cigarettes, Shell (Guide to Bird Sanctuaries : Farne Islands illustrated by Richard Eurich", and Heineken.
  

July 31st

• Sir Alec Douglas-Home giving way to Edward Heath as leader of the Conservative party.
• Greek crisis violent rioting;
• White City show jumping;
• Cyprus waits for a miracle - uneasy truce;
• Escape from 500 feet (submarine escape);
• Sydney's new Opera house;
• humanity of Jacob Epstein;
• Egrets.
• Full page colour adverts for Aston Martin DB5, Bass, Brooke Marine

August 7th

• Edward Heath as new Tory leader.
• Mars pictures;
• Queen's first vist to the Isle of Wight;
• Chiang Kai-shek & Formosa;
• tombs of Carian Iasos;
• Shotover Game Fair;
• new reactor design for Dungeness;
• Victoria tunnel forges ahead;
• Full page colour adverts for Midland Bank, Senior Service cigarettes, & Vanden Plas Princess R .

August 14th

• Cowes yachting week including exciting end of Admiral's Cup.
• tackling the West Country traffic jams around Exeter,
• Greek crisis;
• Campers flee French riviera fires;
• South Africa win 2nd test (cricket);
• radar takes a new look at Mercury and Venus;
• disasters in London, Poole and on the M1,
• Bulagria's treasures,
• Minoan ivory found near Knossos
• Full page colour adverts for Senior Service cigarettes, New Esso extra & Heineken.

August 21st

• U.S. fleet in action off Vietnam.
• lone American sailor Robert Manry conquers Atlantic in 13.5 foot long Tinkerbelle;
• Los Angeles race riots;
• Karen Muir, 12 year old South African, shatters backstroke record;
• Ireland's greatest gothic treasures repaired in London;
• Orwell Barge race;
• Hoard found in east Nigeria;
• building of Europoort, Rotterdam;
• Enterprise Neptune to save Coastline;
• Moving towards dawn of colour television.
• Full page colour adverts for Hotel Phoenicia, Malta, BP (visits Blackpool lights) & Consulate cigarettes..

August 28th

• Peter Hall & David Warner - Hamlet at Stratford upon Avon.
• containing the polio epidemic in Blackburn;
• Balloons over the Alps;
• Guiding Gemini-5 from Houston's new space centre;
• Artists record American space projects;
• Jack Dash - the rise of a Dockland leader;
• Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore;
• Monster oil dracones in difficult harbours.
• Full page colour adverts for Gilbeys Gin, Shell (Guide to Bird Sanctuaries: Abbotsbury illustrated by R.B. Talbot Kelly.

September 4th

• Edinburgh Festival & tattoo and Lord Harewood bowing out as artistic director.
• death of Le Corbusier, visionary architect and planner;
• Car congestion at Ford's Halewood plant due to strike;
• Avalanche buries 100 in the Alps;
• total eclipse of the sun in New Zealand (colour pictures);
• new GB postage stamps by David Gentleman and his wife Rosalind Dease - a revolution at the G.P.O.,
• Women's National Bowling Championships at Wimbledon Park,
• unknown War artist Claude Rowberry exhibited for first time,
• Full page colour adverts for Midland bank (British Wild Life by John Leigh Pemberton), Garrard, P&O-Orient, Austin A60, and Consulate cigarettes

October 2nd

• Famine in Africa,
• Liberal Party Conference,
• North Sea Gas Discovery,
• European Space Success in Cumberland,
• Historic Grocer's Hall Destroyed by Fire,
• Artist Russell Drysdale,
• Early Computer Technology,
  

October 9th

• Profile of Labour Party Chairman, Ray Gunter;
• Pope Paul VI's visit to New York;
• Climbing in the Kashmiri Himalayas;
• Is there a future for vertical take-off aircraft? ;
• Isotopes reveal the living brain;
• Conservatives in search of policy;
• Mapping London's climates;
• Corot exhibition;
• Geilgud in 'Ivanov'.

October 16th

• Pope Paul VI's visit to New York;
• Deadlock on Rhodesia talks
• Mauretania to be scrapped;
• Max Beckmann's portraits;
• New University of Warwick;
• US Ryder Cup Victory at Royal Birkdale

October 30th

• Rhodesia - Ian Smith returns,
• Garfield Todd;
• Changing Face of the Middle East;
• Thomas Bewick - wood engravings.
• BP Pantomime advert; Schweppes Tonic Water
  

November 6th

• Harold Wilson in Rhodesia;
• Vanguard Crash at London Airport;
• British Fashions in New York;
• Hurricane Pauline hits Scotland;
• Horace King - New House of Commons Speaker;
• Highlands and Islands Development;
• Christopher Wood - artist;
• Guinness advert - Guide to Shellfish; Austin A110

November 13th

• 100 cars in M.6 pile-up;
• Princess Margaret’s US tour;
• De Gaulle for President;
• Queen’s Stamp Collection;
• John Lindsey - Mayor of New York;
• Whales in the Thames;
• Stained Glass Makers;
• Vintage Car Sale at Sotheby’s;
• Vanden Plas Princess advert; Schweppes

November 20th

• Princess Margaret’s US tour;
• Rhodesian Rebels Tighten Security;
• Zambia’s Rail Lifeline;
• Artificial Ski Slope at Crystal Palace;
• Britain’s Industrial Past;
• MG Mark IV Magnette Sports Saloon Advert.

November 27th

• Duel on the Bonneville Salt Flats for the world land speed record.
• Farewell to the Mauretania;
• Cassius Clay retains World Heavyweight boxing championship beating Floyd Patterson;
• London Gazette's 300th birthday celebrations,
• Abu Simbel's lifted to safety;
• Princess Margaret in America.
• Full page colour adverts for Consulate, South African Airways, Parker 61 in solid gold, Vat 69 whisky, Schweppes, Cinzano, Watches of Switzerland, Shell (Guide to Bird Sanctuaries: Cheshire Meres illustrated by S.R. Badmin) & Benson & Hedges

December 4th

• Mary Martin in Hello Dolly in Drury Lane.
• London's traffic problem,
• Russia's aircraft and missiles at the Moscow and Paris air shows,
• Arkle wins the Hennessy Gold Cup;
• De Gaulle's rivals;
• Rhodesia;.
• Full page colour adverts for Midland Bank (British Wild Life by John Leigh Pemberton), Watches of Switzerland, Gold Label beer, Senior Service (double page), Domecq; Bahamas, Leathersmith, Rothmans, Sherry de Terry, BP (visits the pantomime), & Norwich Union.
  

December 11th

• profile of the steeplechase racehorse Arkle.
• R.A.F. flies into Zambia following Rhodesia UDI;
• Britain shops for the F 111 fighter bomber;
• revelations of an electron microscope;
• Joseph Paxton;
• London's first sight of the Dead Sea Scrolls
• ;Full page colour adverts for Vat 69 whisky, Dry Fly Sherry, Garrard (double page), Wills Cigars, Domecq, Rothmans, Mateus Rose, Cinzano, Johnnie Walker Red Label whisky, Hennessy Cognac, Tio Pepe.

December 18th

• the Vatican council.
• shift of power in the Kremlin - Podgorny replaces Mikoyan;
• Stansted to become London's Third Airport in 1973;
• Press photographs of the year;
• Frances attempt to harness tidal power;
• British farmers protest Brambell report curbs;
• Full page colour adverts for Bass, Sandeman, Guinness (guide to English cheese) & Dunhill.

December 25th

• Gemini 6 & 7 meeting in space.
• Buchanan's plan for Bath;
• Christmas shopping at Harrods;
• the last Bertram Mills circus season;
• First Test MCC v Australia at Brisbane;
• Better driving;
• new aid for deaf children to hear.
• Full page colour adverts for Vat 69 whisky, Shell (Guide to Bird Sanctuaries:Slimbridge) & Brooke Marine.

Xmas Number

• Royal Artists By Bernard Denvir
• Christmas Lights
• The Royal Family Beside The Lake At Frogmore
• Fred By John Lavender
• Westminster Abbey
• Penguins,Seals And Flying Birds - An Artists Impression Of The Animal Population Of The Southern Continent Of Antarctica
• French And English Artists Who Have Been Inspired By London's River
• A Christmas Dinner By Noel Mostert
• The Last Look Round By John Pudney
• Sublime Tobacco's Art And History
• When Smoking Was An Aspect Of Gracious Living Dutch Artists Gave Their Skill To Adorning It
• Christmas Time In Sweden
• Hermitage Collection Shown In Paris
  

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