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The new MPs included Harold Wilson, Michael Foot and Barbara Castle. Elected to Coventry West, one of the youngest MPs, 34-year-old Maurice Edelman, was a tall, urbane, well‐dressed writer who lived in Chesham Bois. As a novelist he joined Benjamin Disraeli and Jeffry Archer in the exclusive club of British MPs who were also best-selling authors. The Edelman Family Israel Maurice Edelman was born in Cardiff, the son of a Jewish photographer, who had emigrated from Germany in 1904. It was a cultured, musical household and, at Cardiff High School, Edelman gained a state scholarship to...

Simon Hill HonFRPS, President of the RPS simon.hill@rps.org In second-hand bookshops and at car boot sales, I find it impossible to resist any dog-eared copies of Picture Post magazine, the publication that did for the genre of British photojournalism what Life magazine - the inspiration for Picture Post - did for the American genre.  While writing a 'documentary' brief for a class of A-level photography students, I was thrilled to find a link between my home town of Harrogate, Picture Post magazine and, somewhat sur...

  Article Our Man in Westminster: EU funding has been key to the Highlands’ growth yet the Tory government now wants to bypass Holyrood with its own investment plans By Contributor Published: 12:00, 31 January 2021 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper MP Drew Hendry. Scotland’s finance secretary, finally, received a response from the UK government regarding replacement funding, lost due to the UK’s exit from the EU. Tory minister Steve Barclay stated that, from now, the UK government will decide on...

Last modified on Thu 4 Feb 2021 04.14 EST Grace Robertson, who has died aged 90 of a stroke, made her reputation in the 1950s as a freelance photojournalist on the weekly editorial magazine Picture Post. One story, titled Mother’s Day Off, has become her signature. Early in her career, in 1954, she accompanied a group of Battersea “charladies” on their annual charabanc excursion to Margate in Kent. She accompanied them too, as she proudly recalled when she and I last met, in 2015, pint for pint (beer and cockles) and joke for joke, as she recorded their “exuberance”. An iconic image...

She lived in Hampstead, north London, before moving to a nearby care home after being diagnosed with advanced Alzheimer’s disease. Bernard Lyall, the elder son of Whitehorn and her late husband, the crime novelist Gavin Lyall, paid tribute to his mother. He said: “She was held in a lot of high esteem, part of the whole vanguard of feminist journalism at that time. She always worked from home. She was very loyal and deeply in love with my father, they were together for over 40 years until he died in 2003.” Lyall said that, along with his younger brother, Jake, his parents made up a “ti...