In this way I was able to keep my entire daily expenditure down to the two shillings I had set myself as a limit. My method was to eat an eighto’clock breakfast, stow away a good lunch in my pockets, ...

Fifty years ago Monday, the U.K. and Ireland put an end to a system of currency that had been used for hundreds of years, and made a switch to decimalization — the system where currency is based on ...