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Tommy Cooper
Caerphilly-born comedian Tommy Cooper served as a member of Field Marshal Montgomery's Desert Rats in Egypt during WWII - which is where he originally...
Bob Hawke
Born in 1929, Bob Hawke built up a position of great influence in the Australian trade union movement during 20 years with the Australian...
8-Track
This was the first practical way to play recorded music in your car and was invented by Bill Lear and developed in the 1960s...
Teenyboppers
As the pop music scene matured in the early 70s, so its audience widened to a younger age group - the Teenyboppers. No longer...
Plasticine
William Harbutt resigned his position as headmaster of the Bath School of Art because his forward-thinking ideas were always deemed too radical by his...
