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Apparently much of the notoriety – or perhaps by now it has become allure – of Essex is my fault. In 1990, weeks before Mrs Thatcher was defenestrated, I wrote an article in the Sunday Telegraph called ‘Essex Man’, in circumstances that Tim Burrows describes entirely accurately in this exceptionally well-written and intelligent book. Although
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Essex is a county of firsts. There was the UK's first nudist colony (1924, in Wickford, intriguingly called 'Moonella'), and the world's first regular radio broadcasting company.
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