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Employer Fay Weldon
From Saffron Walden FW commuted to London to work for the Daily Mirror, answering readers' queries about hire purchase problems. She was threatened with the sack after losing a bit of stained blanket she...

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October 1938: The first British political Gallup poll ever...

National or international item

October 1938

The first British political Gallup poll ever taken, about public support for the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain , revealed general approval for him and his recent peace mission (although those who disagreed did so very strongly).
Mount, Ferdinand. “Living with Monsters”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 8, 22 Apr. 2010, pp. 24-6.
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October 1938: The first British political Gallup poll ever...

National or international item

October 1938

The first British political Gallup poll ever taken, about public support for the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain , revealed general approval for him and his recent peace mission (although those who disagreed did so very strongly).
Mount, Ferdinand. “Living with Monsters”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 8, 22 Apr. 2010, pp. 24-6.
25

October 1950: A Gallup Poll found that 48 percent of respondents...

Writing climate item

October 1950

A Gallup Poll found that 48 percent of respondents read detective fiction; among the favourite authors were Edgar Wallace , Conan Doyle , and Agatha Christie .
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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