Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Ben Pimlott

Born: July 4, 1945
Died: April 10, 2004 (aged 58)
Bio: Benjamin John Pimlott, known as Ben Pimlott, was a British historian of the post-war period in Britain. He made a substantial contribution to the literary genre of political biography.
Known for:
- The Queen (1996)
- Harold Wilson (1992)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s (1977)
- Governing London (2002)