Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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)