Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics: A Sideways Look at Twentieth-Century LondonLondon's forgotten scandals, secrets and personalities from the twentieth century, told by the writer of the popular blog Another Nickel in the Machine. |
Contents
The Protests at the 1970 Miss World Competition | |
Mary Richardson Suffragette Iconoclast | |
How the GLC Almost Destroyed Covent Garden | |
When Lord HawHaw Met Mr Albert Pierrepoint | |
Christine Keeler and the Fight at the Flamingo | |
The Blind Beggar and the Death of George Cornell | |
The Death of Benny Hill and the Windmill Theatre | |
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