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<strong>Other lives:</strong> Journalist and Labour councillor who served on the Greater London council in the 1970s and wrote a book about the 1945 general election

This view of the Beatles through the eyes of their closest aide shows not just the workload of the group, but how the Beatles' demands became part of the crumbling scaffolding of Mal Evans's life.

A pamphlet produced in 1984 by London Health Emergency which is a guide for hospital workers on how - and why - to occupy hospitals to prevent their closure.

FEBRUARY 15 1971 was United Kingdom Decimalisation Day: no longer were there 12 pennies to a shilling, half-crowns or 240 pennies to the pound.  That day, 50 years ago, was also just over halfway through the greatest strike this country had seen since the General Strike of 1926: the 44-day national strike of 200,000 Post Office workers. Telegraphists, telephonists, Post Office counter clerks, cleaners, postmen (170,000 of them!) and PHGs (postmen higher grade), members of the Union of Post Office Workers (UPW), struck for their claim of 15 per cent, or £3 a week for lower-paid grades such a...