In 2013, the number of visitors to the UK increased by 5.6% on 2012, with the 16.8m people visiting the capital making it the best year for London tourism since the early 1960s Visitors to the UK were ...
14 July 1961: Prime minister Harold Macmillan attended a reception for the man hailed ‘Columbus of the space age’ There must have been moments yesterday when Major Gagarin could have wished himself ...
In May 1961, singer Carmen McRae was booked into London's popular Flamingo jazz club for a two-week run. The Flamingo, at 33 Wardour Street in Soho, was a dodgy basement nightspot that on the weekends ...