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• October - Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were accused of the Moors murders (parliament had only just repealed the death sentence for murder)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

5 9856

 Cars and Lorries Wrecked on the Fog Bound M6 Motorway on Guy Fawkes NightWhen Over a Hundred Vehicles Crashed Into Each Other ... ' Full front page photograph - info. nr Hanchurch in Staffs

' Inside of a Burnt OUt and Wrecked Car from the M6 Crashes'

' Twisted Wrecks of Cars at the Keele Service Station Close to the Scene of the Multiple Crash '

' Colonel T. E. St. Johnston Chief Constable of Lancashire and Stephen Swingler Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, Discuss the Problem of the Crash in London '

' The Prime Minister and Mrs Wilson at the Wedding of Their Niece in Cardiff ' a veiw of the congregation, bride and groom and two of the bridesmaids

' Sir Ralph Richardson Takes a Spin on His 120mph Motorbike with Lady Richardson and Their Dog Benjy - On His Norton 750 '

' The Duke of Edinburgh Dressed in White Gown, Cap and Mask When He Visited the Sterile Burns Unit at the Queen Vidtoria Hospital, East Grinstead on 5 November '

Princess Margaret and Lord SNowdon Visit The USA

' San Francisco - By Crowded Cable Car up Russian Hill, Lord Snowdon, With Princess Margaret Inside, Hangs On Outside the Car ' Sleekburnc.

' By Rolls Royce Back to Nob Hill - Princess and her Husband ...'

' Princess Arrives at Her First Hollywood Party '

Cartoons - De GAulle Tells France "We Shall Triumph" and three other cartoons from leading newspapers of the day

' Project for a Stained Glass Window for a Gaullist Sainte Chapelle - La Canard Enchaine ' another dig at General de Gaulle

A UNique Collection of British Stamps:

A Book Containing a "Unique Collection of Stamps issued at Ottawa in Commemoration of Queen Victoria and her Diamond Jubilee Miel - large colour photograph

'A Block of 38 Mint 2d. Blues of 1840 from Plate Number I ...' colour

' A Block of 72 Miint ½d. Reds from 1870 from Plat Number 9 ...' colour

' Propaganda Envelope of thr 19c - From Tasmania in 1858 Pleading for World Peace - Sent to 25 High Holborn London '

' Exert of Letter from Teh Duke of York to J. A. Tilleard a Philatelist '

' A Single Reversed Head in a Block of 1d brown Postal Fiscals (revenue stamps) Known as tete beche ..'

' Private Telegraph Stamp of the Electric Telegraph Company - Only Known Example of Lord Alfred Paget 's Own Personal Stamp - His Name Has Been Misspelt '

' Letter frothe Duke of York to J. A. Tilleard a Philatelist Who Later Became the First Keeper of The Royal Philatelic Collection 1910-13 ' letter dated 1902 ' two letters

' New Yorks New Mayor - John Vliet Lindsay ' a wonderful full page photograph - small tear to bottom of page 2.5"

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' The Lindsays with Their Children - Margia - Anne - John - Kathie - and His Wife '

Art - Domenico Beccafumi

' St Anne - A Study for "The Birth of the Virgin" in Siena '

' Bearded Man - Possibly a Portrait of Michelangelo '

' Boy in a Cap - Believed to be the Artists Son '

' head of an Emaciated Man '

' Ploughman and Oxen '

' Pilot Whales in the Thames ' photograph of four from a school of about 20

' Whale in the Thames and Killed at Deptford Pier in 1842 ' from an old engraving

' Stained Glass Makers Craft - Jasper Kettlewell Fitting The Glass into the Church of All Saints at Benhilton Surrey

' Molly Kettlewell Holds one of the Completed ANgels ..'

' The Complete Design for th Figure of St Peter '

' Jasper Kettlewell Compares a Piece of Glass...'

' The Window at Benhilton ' colour

' The Central Figure - Christ in Majesty with St Peter and to The Right St Laurence ' two color photographs

Lost City Found in Peru -:

' The Circular Fortress of the Lost City of Pajaten ...'

' Two of the Heads of The Circular Wall '

' A Striking Condor Relief ...'

' One of the Long Stariways ...'

' Close Up of one of the Heads Plumed with Ray Like Slabs of Slate ...'

Southeby's First Auction of Vintage Cars - photographs by Gerry Cranhan

' Auctioneer Tim Clarke, Flanked by Sotheby Employees, Scans the Crowd to Catch Bids on a Bicycle ' or Velocipede

' Dutchman Gerald Nowee Found Prices Too High '

' Dergby Garage Owner Eric Allsop Bought a 1906 Cadillac ...' photograph of the man

' P. W. Louwmann a Zoo Owner From holland Bought a Horch ...' photograph of the man

' American Philip Wichard Viewed the Sale fro man 1897 Daimler Wagonette ' photograph of the man

' James Leake from Oklahoma Surveys the 1911 Rolls Royce he Bought for £9800 '

' Johnny Thomas a Garage Owner in Carmarthen Says "I Cant Buy at These Prices" ..'

Double page

'The Field of Battersea - A Duel Between Duke of Wellington and Earl of Winchilsea in 1829 - A Comtemporary Drawing by W. Heath ' Sleekburnc.

' Portrait of a Mother and Daughter in Papeete by Gauguin- Now Belonging to Walter Annenberg and Exhibitred at Philadelphia Museum of aRt '

' The Photograph of the Mother and Daughter ' taken for the above

' Franklinia or Gordonia Altamaha Flowering Tree '

' Elephants on a South African Game Reserve ' advert for South african Airways - full page

Theatre - Scene from " Saved " at the Royal Court - Tony Selby - Barbara Ferris - in Edward Bond 's Controversial Play

This next page is entitled the Cinema - I can only say that the original owner of the magazine did not like or took offence to the photograph of the scene as it has been ripped out - the subject of the missing photograph being "Vaghe Stelle dell' Orsa" by Luchino Visconti - a scene with Claudia Cardinale and Jean Sorel

' Findlaters Dry Sherry ' full colour page advert showing photographs of a Fisherman - A Skier - a fox hunter

' Girard Perregaux fine Watches ' advert showing three designs

' Gordons Dry Gin ' advert

' James Hare Ltd of Coronet House Leeds I ' advert

' Coast of Gran Canaria - The Rock at Puerto de las Neives '

' Diano Marina - The Garden of Italy ' photograph of a beach for the Italian State Tourist Office

' Becas Real Turtle Soup ' advert

' Caribeach Hotels ' possibly a view of the St Lucia Beach Hotel now Almond Morgan Bay

The New Tunis Hilton '

' Schhh Youn Know Who ' full page colour advert for Schweppes Tonic Water

' Consulate - " Cool as a Mountain Stream " - Menthol Cigarettes ' a full page colour advert

' Senior Service Satisfy ' full page colour advert

' La visite de L' Escadre Anglaise au Havre 1929 by Raoul Dufy - Recent Acquisitions - Tooth of 31 Bruton St London ' advert showing the painting

' Longines Flagship Automatic Watch ' full apge colour advert

' Longines - Take This Time ...' Ten Watches with prices - double page colour advert

' Highland Queen Scotch Scotch Whisky ' full page colour advert - a print showing Mary Queen of Scots Arriving at Leith on her Return from France - loose page

This second part of the description features items of news articles etc but have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include :-

The M6 Fog - page by Roger Eliot with photographs by Ray Green

De Gaulle Tells France: "We Shall Triumph" - page by Peter Kirk

San Francisco Cable Cars Intrigue Princess Margaret

Our Note Book by Arthur Bryant

John Lindsay Mayor of New York - Profile by Richard Schickel

Art Page by Frank Davis - Domenico Beccafumi The Last of the Great Sienese

Gardening by Edward Hyams

Letters to the Editor from P. G. de Bourcier of Ashstead, Surrey - - - Anson Herrick of San Francisco USA - - - Terence E. Clark of Worcester Park, Surrey

Sleekburnc.

Books of the Week by Charles Petrie - An Appreciation - A Sanguinary Institution "The Dual"

New Fiction by Patricia Hodgart

Book Reviews - Gauguin in the South Seas by Bengt Danielsson - review by AC - - - Painting in the Twentieth Century by Werner Haftmann - by CB Sleekburnc.

As Brutal a Play as Any Within Memory - " SAved" - Theatre review by J. C. Trewin

Cinema by Alan Dent - page partly missing as described above

Bridge Notes by Edward Mayer - Learning the Game

Chess Notes by Baruch H. Wood - Baron Munchausen's Game

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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